Patents by Inventor Masanori Hoshino

Masanori Hoshino 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: 10272489
    Abstract: A carriage for receiving molten metal with a mechanism for moving a ladle up and down and a method for transporting molten metal to safely move a ladle for receiving a molten metal up and down and transport it. The carriage (10) for receiving molten metal to transport the ladle that receives molten metal from a furnace (C) comprises a carriage (20) for travelling on a route (L), guiding columns (30) that are placed on the carriage (20), a frame (40) that horizontally extends from the guiding columns and moves up and down above the carriage (20), a mechanism (50) for moving the ladle, which mechanism is placed on the frame (40) and horizontally moves the ladle, and the driver (60) for moving the frame up and down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., FUJIWA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishida, Masanori Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20190091763
    Abstract: To provide a carriage for receiving molten metal with a mechanism for moving a ladle up and down and a method for transporting molten metal to safely move a ladle for receiving a molten metal up and down and transport it. The carriage (10) for receiving molten metal to transport the ladle that receives molten metal from a furnace (C) comprises a carriage (20) for travelling on a route (L), guiding columns (30) that are placed on the carriage (20), a frame (40) that horizontally extends from the guiding columns and moves up and down above the carriage (20), a mechanism (50) for moving the ladle, which mechanism is placed on the frame (40) and horizontally moves the ladle, and the driver (60) for moving the frame up and down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., FUJIWA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi NISHIDA, Masanori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20190088835
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a substrate (40); blue light emitting elements (10) arranged on the main surface of the substrate (40); and a phosphor sheet (30) containing a phosphor that is excited by emission light from the blue light emitting elements and emits excitation light, the phosphor sheet (30) being disposed above the blue light emitting elements (30), wherein the blue light emitting elements (10) includes first blue light emitting elements (11) which emit first emission light having a first wavelength taken as a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum, and second blue light emitting elements (12) which emit second emission light having a second wavelength taken as a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum, and the second wavelength being a longer wavelength than the first wavelength by a wavelength difference of at least 10 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu YOKOTA, Takaya UENO, Masanori HOSHINO, Yoshinori TANAKA, Hitoshi MUROFUSHI
  • Publication number: 20190088831
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first light emitting unit (10) which includes: a first blue light emitting element (11) emitting emission light with the peak wavelength being a first wavelength; and a first phosphor layer (12) and outputs white light of a first chromaticity; and a second light emitting unit (20) which includes: a second blue light emitting element (21) emitting emission light the peak wavelength being a second wavelength, the second wavelength being longer than the first wavelength; and a second phosphor layer; and outputs white light of a second chromaticity. In an xy chromaticity diagram, the first and second chromaticities are located symmetrically with respect to a predetermined chromaticity, and the difference between the predetermined chromaticity and each of the first and second chromaticities is not greater than 0.04.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi MUROFUSHI, Masanori HOSHINO, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180299671
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which can properly evaluate a degree of fatigue of a user using a head-mounted display. The information processing apparatus includes: a state determining unit (51) that determines whether the head-mounted display is in a mounted state; a fatigue degree evaluating unit (53) that evaluates the degree of fatigue of the user wearing the head-mounted display on the basis of a cumulative wearing time obtained by accumulating times in which it is determined that the head-mounted display is in the mounted state; and a notifying unit (54) that provides the user with a notification corresponding to the degree of fatigue of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventor: Masanori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20180165942
    Abstract: There is provided a head-mounted display, a notification apparatus, a notification system, a notification method, and a program that allow a person not wearing a head-mounted display to know that a user still continues to wear a head-mounted display after a notification that a wearing time of the head-mounted display of this user has exceeded a predetermined time. A wearing time determination block determines a wearing time of the head-mounted display of the user. A notification block executes a first notification to the user if the wearing time has exceeded a first time and, when the wearing time has exceeded a second time longer than the first time, and executes a second notification to a person not wearing the head-mounted display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20180021852
    Abstract: To provide a system and a method for transporting molten metal, in which feeding an alloyed metal to a ladle for reaction is automated, in which transporting molten metal from the ladle for reaction to the pouring machine is automated, and in which a cast product with stable qualities is safely produced. The system (1) for transporting molten metal from a furnace (F) to a pouring machine (100) comprises a ladle (10) for reaction, a device (50) for feeding an alloyed metal, a ladle (60) for pouring, a bogie (20) for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring, and a bogie (70) for transporting the ladle for pouring, and a pouring machine (100). The bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring has a controller for the bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring. The bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring has a controller for the bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., FUJIWA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi NISHIDA, Masanori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170232507
    Abstract: To provide a carriage for receiving molten metal with a mechanism for moving a ladle up and down and a method for transporting molten metal to safely move a ladle for receiving a molten metal up and down and transport it. The carriage (10) for receiving molten metal to transport the ladle that receives molten metal from a furnace (C) comprises a carriage (20) for travelling on a route (L), guiding columns (30) that are placed on the carriage (20), a frame (40) that horizontally extends from the guiding columns and moves up and down above the carriage (20), a mechanism (50) for moving the ladle, which mechanism is placed on the frame (40) and horizontally moves the ladle, and the driver (60) for moving the frame up and down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., FUJIWA DENKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tadashi NISHIDA, Masanori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170209921
    Abstract: A ladle transport car includes a car truck body provided with a wheel, a mounting table arranged on the car truck body, a ladle movement mechanism arranged on the mounting table, on which a ladle is mounted and moved in a horizontal direction, and a ladle turning mechanism arranged between the car truck body and the mounting table and turning the ladle by turning the mounting table in a horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Tadashi NISHIDA, Masanori HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 9487852
    Abstract: A manufacturing equipment for galvanized steel sheet includes coating tub to coat steel sheet dipped in coating bath wherein the bath including molten zinc and Al is stored at bath temperature T1, separating tub to separate by a flotation top-dross by precipitating the top-dross in the bath wherein the bath transferred from the coating tub is stored at bath temperature T2 lower than T1, adjusting tub to dissolve dross wherein the bath transferred from the separating tub is stored at bath temperature T3 higher than T2 and Fe of the bath is unsaturated, and circulator to circulate the bath in order of the coating tub, the separating tub, and the adjusting tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Okada, Masanori Hoshino, Atsushi Sakatoku
  • Patent number: 9277639
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor circuit board in which a conductor portion is provided on an insulating substrate, wherein a surface roughness of a semiconductor element-mounting section of the conductor portion is 0.3 ?m or lower in arithmetic average roughness Ra, 2.5 ?m or lower in ten-point average roughness Rzjis, 2.0 ?m or smaller in maximum height Rz, and 0.5 ?m or lower in arithmetic average waviness Wa. Further, assuming that a thickness of the insulating substrate is t1 and a thickness of the conductor portion is t2, the thickness of t1 and t2 satisfy a relation: 0.1?t2/t1?50. Due to above structure, even if an amount of heat generation of the semiconductor element is increased, there can be provided a semiconductor circuit board and a semiconductor device having excellent TCT characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Kato, Masanori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9181612
    Abstract: A manufacturing equipment for galvannealed steel sheet includes coating tub to coat steel sheet dipped in coating bath wherein the bath including molten zinc and is stored at bath temperature T1, separating tub to separate by flotation top-dross by precipitating the top-dross in the bath wherein the bath transferred from the coating tub is stored at bath temperature T2 lower than T1, Fe of the bath is supersaturated, and Al concentration A2 of the bath is controlled to high concentration by supplying first metal, adjusting tub to adjust Al concentration A3 of the bath by supplying second metal wherein the bath transferred from the separating tub is stored at bath temperature T3 higher than T2, Fe of the bath is unsaturated, and dross is dissolved, and circulator to circulate the bath in order of the coating tub, the separating tub, and the adjusting tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Okada, Masanori Hoshino, Atsushi Sakatoku
  • Publication number: 20150257252
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor circuit board in which a conductor portion is provided on an insulating substrate, wherein a surface roughness of a semiconductor element-mounting section of the conductor portion is 0.3 ?m or lower in arithmetic average roughness Ra, 2.5 ?m or lower in ten-point average roughness Rzjis, 2.0 ?m or smaller in maximum height Rz, and 0.5 ?m or lower in arithmetic average waviness Wa. Further, assuming that a thickness of the insulating substrate is t1 and a thickness of the conductor portion is t2, the thickness of t1 and t2 satisfy a relation: 0.1?t2/t1?50. Due to above structure, even if an amount of heat generation of the semiconductor element is increased, there can be provided a semiconductor circuit board and a semiconductor device having excellent TCT characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Kato, Masanori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9127339
    Abstract: A dual-purpose facility of continuous hot-dip coating and continuous annealing is configured so as to be switched between a continuous hot-dip coated material production line and a continuous annealed material production line, and includes a gas discharge path that discharges atmosphere gas in an annealing furnace from a gas discharge port provided in an outlet side of the annealing furnace out of the annealing furnace and a path opening and closing unit for opening and closing the gas discharge path. The path opening and closing unit opens the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous hot-dip coated material production line and closes the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous annealed material production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8890740
    Abstract: A comparator has a comparator circuit to output an output voltage based on a voltage difference between a first and second input voltage, a variable capacitor connected to an output terminal, an input voltage control circuit to generate a common voltage and add the common voltage to the first and the second input voltages, and a correction circuit to control the variable capacitor to control the common voltage. The correction circuit controls a first capacitance value of the variable capacitor so that the output voltage is reversed when the voltage difference equals a first voltage difference, and controls a second capacitance value of the variable capacitor so that the output voltage is reversed when the voltage difference equals a second voltage value, and controls the common voltage so that a difference between the first capacitance value and the second capacitance value becomes equal to a predetermined capacitance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Masanori Hoshino, Takumi Danjo
  • Publication number: 20140152482
    Abstract: A comparator has a comparator circuit to output an output voltage based on a voltage difference between a first and second input voltage, a variable capacitor connected to an output terminal, an input voltage control circuit to generate a common voltage and add the common voltage to the first and the second input voltages, and a correction circuit to control the variable capacitor to control the common voltage. The correction circuit controls a first capacitance value of the variable capacitor so that the output voltage is reversed when the voltage difference equals a first voltage difference, and controls a second capacitance value of the variable capacitor so that the output voltage is reversed when the voltage difference equals a second voltage value, and controls the common voltage so that a difference between the first capacitance value and the second capacitance value becomes equal to a predetermined capacitance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicants: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED, FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori HOSHINO, Takumi DANJO
  • Patent number: 8714104
    Abstract: A dual-purpose facility of continuous hot-dip coating and continuous annealing is configured so as to be switched between a continuous hot-dip coated material production line and a continuous annealed material production line, and includes a gas discharge path that discharges atmosphere gas in an annealing furnace from a gas discharge port provided in an outlet side of the annealing furnace out of the annealing furnace and a path opening and closing unit for opening and closing the gas discharge path. The path opening and closing unit opens the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous hot-dip coated material production line and closes the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous annealed material production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20140090595
    Abstract: A dual-purpose facility of continuous hot-dip coating and continuous annealing is configured so as to be switched between a continuous hot-dip coated material production line and a continuous annealed material production line, and includes a gas discharge path that discharges atmosphere gas in an annealing furnace from a gas discharge port provided in an outlet side of the annealing furnace out of the annealing furnace and a path opening and closing unit for opening and closing the gas discharge path. The path opening and closing unit opens the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous hot-dip coated material production line and closes the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous annealed material production line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 8641256
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a recess portion defined by a pair of opposing first side wall portions and a pair of opposing second side wall portions extending between the first side wall portions and shorter than the first side wall portions. Light emitting elements are arranged on the bottom surface of the recess portion in a direction of the first side wall portions. The light emitting elements include a first light emitting element for emitting light of a first color and a second light emitting element for emitting light of a second color different from the first color and placed closest to the second side wall portion among the light emitting elements. A resin portion containing a phosphor for wavelength-converting a part of the light of the second color into a complementary color of the light of the second color is filled into the recess portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sano, Kouji Tsukagoshi, Masanori Hoshino, Kazuyoshi Haga
  • Patent number: 8514113
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus has a plurality of comparators configured to compare each of a plurality of different reference voltages and an input signal voltage in a parallel manner, a switch unit configured to switch the input signal voltage to a voltage corresponding to an analog input signal voltage or one of the plurality of reference voltages, an encoder configured to convert comparison results of the plurality of comparators into digital signals, and a digital assist circuit configured to control the switch unit so that the input signal voltage has a potential corresponding to the reference voltage in the comparator being the correction target among the plurality of comparators, to generate correction data for correcting the offset voltage generated in the comparator being the correction target based on the digital signal and to output it to the comparator being the correction target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventor: Masanori Hoshino