Patents by Inventor Masao Hori

Masao Hori 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: 12177992
    Abstract: To provide an electronic control device capable of securing electromagnetic compatibility and mechanical strength. An electronic control device includes a base portion formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape; an electronic control board provided in the base portion; and connectors provided on an opening side of the base portion and electrically connected to the electronic control board, in which the base portion includes a first layer formed of a conductive member and a second layer formed of a member different from that of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujimasa, Eiji Ichikawa, Masao Horie, Masashi Saito, Hiroi Nambu, Tomokazu Tanase
  • Publication number: 20240360562
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for manufacturing a plated composite material, the method being capable of forming a plating layer having good adhesiveness to each of a plurality of resin parts each including a different resin. The method for manufacturing a plated composite material for solving the aforementioned problem includes: a step for preparing a composite material having a heat-resistant resin part and a silicone resin part; a step for treating, with an alkaline solution, a plating region of the composite material; a step for irradiating plasma on the plating region; a step for bringing the plating region in contact with a cationic catalyst-containing liquid; and a step for performing an electroless plating treatment on the plating region. The plating region includes at least a portion of the heat-resistant resin part and at least a portion of the silicone resin part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Masao HORI, Katsunori NISHIURA, Yuichi ITOU, Daisuke YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240219422
    Abstract: This anisotropic electroconductive sheet includes: an insulating layer having a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of through-holes penetrating between the two surfaces; a plurality of electroconductive layers disposed on the inner wall surfaces of each of the plurality of through-holes; and a plurality of electroconductive fillers filled into cavities surrounded by the electroconductive layers inside each of the plurality of through-holes. Each of the plurality of electroconductive fillers contains a crosslinked product of an electroconductive elastomer composition containing electroconductive particles and an elastomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Katsunori NISHIURA, Daisuke YAMADA, Yuichi ITOU, Masao HORI
  • Patent number: 11889657
    Abstract: An electronic control device for suppressing mixing of foreign substances includes a control board including a heat generation component, a housing, a support member that is provided in the housing and supports the board, a heat radiation fin on a surface opposite to a surface of the support member on which the control board is supported, an air cooling fan that intersects an extension direction of the heat radiation fin, and blows wind to the heat radiation fin, a wall portion between the control board and the air cooling fan, and extending from the support member toward the control board, a wiring passage at a top end of the wall portion, a wiring that is laid in the wiring passage, and electrically connects the air cooling fan and the control board, and a cover that covers the housing, and includes a protrusion fitted in the wiring passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Horie
  • Publication number: 20240004172
    Abstract: A zoom lens including in order from object side to image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming; movable lens units including a lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming, in which an interval between lens units adjacent to each other changes for zooming, in which focal lengths of the zoom lens when focused on an infinity object at the wide angle end and at the telephoto end, a focal length of the first lens unit, and an F-number at maximum aperture of the zoom lens at the wide angle end are appropriately set, in which the rear lens unit includes a plurality of negative lenses formed of a material whose refractive index with respect to d-line and first partial dispersion ratio are appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Masao HORI
  • Patent number: 11789249
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a subsequent unit including a plurality of lens units, The first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. A distance between each pair of adjacent lens units changes in zooming. The subsequent unit includes, in order from the image side to the object side, a lens having a positive refractive power and configured not to move for zooming, a moving positive lens unit consisting of one or two lenses, having a positive refractive power, and configured to move in zooming, and a diaphragm configured to move in zooming. The diaphragm is closer to the object side at the wide-angle end than at the telephoto end. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Patent number: 11754818
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured not to move for zooming; three or four moving lens units configured to move in zooming; an aperture stop; and one or two rear lens units including a rear lens unit closest to the object side and configured not to move for zooming. An interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed in zooming. The three or four moving lens units include a moving lens unit having a negative refractive power. The three or four moving lens units include a rear positive lens unit closest to the image side and having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit includes three positive lenses. Conditional expressions are satisfied by the zoom lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20220269057
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a subsequent unit including a plurality of lens units, The first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. A distance between each pair of adjacent lens units changes in zooming. The subsequent unit includes, in order from the image side to the object side, a lens having a positive refractive power and configured not to move for zooming, a moving positive lens unit consisting of one or two lenses, having a positive refractive power, and configured to move in zooming, and a diaphragm configured to move in zooming. The diaphragm is closer to the object side at the wide-angle end than at the telephoto end. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Patent number: 11347034
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from the object side, a positive first lens unit not moving for zooming, a negative second lens unit moving for zooming, and a positive third lens unit moving for zooming. The second lens unit includes a negative lens closest to the object side, the third lens unit consists of a 3-1 sub-lens unit and a 3-2 sub-lens unit from the object side. Conditional expressions ?18.0<f1/f2<?3.0, 0.2<f21/f2<3.6, ?0.95<f21/r2<?0.25, 7.0<?2t/?2w<125.0, and 0.3<f31/f32<2.5, are satisfied where f1, f2, and f21 are the focal lengths of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the negative lens, r2 is an image-side radius of curvature of the negative lens, ?2w and ?2t are the lateral magnifications of the second lens unit at the wide angle end and the telephoto end, and f31 and f32 are the focal lengths of the 3-1 sub-lens unit and the 3-2 sub-lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura, Naotoshi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220137379
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes in order from object side: a positive first unit not moving for zooming; a negative second unit moving in an optical axis direction for zooming; a positive M unit moving in the optical axis direction for zooming; and a positive R unit disposed closest to the image side, wherein the first unit includes a subunit moving for focusing, wherein the zoom lens includes an aperture stop closer to the image side than the second unit, wherein a length on the optical axis from a surface of the R unit closest to the object side to a surface of the R unit closest to an image side, a length on the optical axis from the surface of the R unit closest to an image side to a rear principal point of the R unit, and a back focus of the zoom lens are defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Masao Hori
  • Patent number: 11253910
    Abstract: Provided is a production method, including a first preforming process for obtaining a first preform from a billet, a second preforming process for obtaining a final preform from the first preform, and a finish forging process for forming the final preform into a finishing dimension of a forged crankshaft. In the first preforming process, a plurality of flat parts are formed by pressing pin-corresponding parts and journal-corresponding parts in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the billet. The second preforming process includes: a process of pressing regions to be a plurality of journals with a width direction of the flat part as a pressing direction by using a pair of first dies; and a process of, after starting pressing by the first dies, decentering regions to be a plurality of pins with the width direction of the flat part as a decentering direction by using second dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Okubo, Kenji Tamura, Kunihiro Yoshida, Sam Soo Hwang, Ryusuke Nakano, Masao Hori, Yukihiro Ota
  • Patent number: 11214883
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for coloring without any problem with waste water or stability of color development or deposition. A plating solution for coloring characterized by containing a molybdate and a carboxylic acid having one or more carboxyl groups and one or more hydroxy groups and having two or more carbon atoms or a salt thereof, and having a pH of 4.5 to 7.5. A method for coloring a member to be plated characterized by electrolyzing the member to be plated as a cathode in this plating solution for coloring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JCU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Yasuo Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210317589
    Abstract: A trivalent chromium plating solution containing a trivalent chromium compound, a complexing agent, a conductive salt, and a pH-buffering agent, and further containing an organic compound having 2-4 carbon atoms and three or more chloro groups, and a trivalent chromium plating method using the same provide a practical trivalent chromium plating with enhanced corrosion resistance as compared to the ordinary trivalent chromium plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: JCU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Madoka NAKAGAMI, Masao HORI, Yuto MORIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11143850
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from object side: a positive first unit configured not to be moved for zooming; one or two negative second units configured to be moved for zooming; a stop configured to reduce an outer part of an off-axis light; two or three third units configured to be moved for zooming; and a fourth unit, in which focal lengths of the first unit and the second units, a distance on an optical axis from the stop to a vertex of a surface closest to the object side in the third units under a zoom state in which F-drop starts, and a distance on the optical axis from a vertex of a surface closest to the image side in the second units to the vertex of the surface closest to the object side in the third units under the zoom state are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Naotoshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11137586
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured not to be moved for zooming, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured to be moved for zooming, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit. The first lens unit includes at least six lenses, a lens closest to the object side included in the first lens unit is a negative lens, and the zoom lens satisfies conditional expressions: ?1.65<f1n/f1<?1.10; 37<?1n<48; and 87<?pave<100, where f1n is a focal length of the negative lens, ?1n is an Abbe number of the negative lens with respect to d-line, f1 is a focal length of the first lens unit, and ?pave is an average of Abbe numbers of positive lenses included in the first lens unit with respect to d-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Shimomura, Naotoshi Ogawa, Masao Hori
  • Publication number: 20210198797
    Abstract: A trivalent chromium plating solution that does not cause the problems including the occurrence of deposition failure of the plating and color unevenness, such as a brown stripe pattern, in the plating even though a metal impurity is incorporated into the plating solution, and a trivalent chromium plating method are provided by a trivalent chromium plating solution containing a trivalent chromium compound, a chloride as a conductive salt, a pH buffering agent, and a complexing agent, further containing an unsaturated sulfonic acid compound represented by the following general formula (1) (wherein in the formula (1), R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having a number of carbon atoms of from 1 to 10, hydrogen, or a halogen; R2 represents nothing or a hydrocarbon group having a number of carbon atoms of from 1 to 10; and X represents hydrogen or an alkali metal), and a trivalent chromium plating method using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: JCU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto MORIKAWA, Masao HORI, Madoka NAKAGAMI
  • Patent number: 11045865
    Abstract: Provided is a production method, including a first preforming process, a second preforming process, and a finish forging process. In the first preforming process, while a plurality of flat parts are formed, a region to be a second pin is decentered. The second preforming process includes: a process of pressing each region to be a plurality of journals in a pressing direction corresponding to a width direction of the flat part by using a pair of second dies; and a process of, after starting the pressing by the second dies, decentering a region to be a first pin and to be disposed in a first position and a region to be a third pin and to be disposed in a third position from each other in opposite directions with a width direction of the flat part being as a decentering direction by using third dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Okubo, Kenji Tamura, Kunihiro Yoshida, Sam Soo Hwang, Ryusuke Nakano, Masao Hori, Yukihiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20210187591
    Abstract: Provided is a production method, including a first preforming process for obtaining a first preform from a billet, a second preforming process for obtaining a final preform from the first preform, and a finish forging process for forming the final preform into a finishing dimension of a forged crankshaft. In the first preforming process, a plurality of flat parts are formed by pressing pin-corresponding parts and journal-corresponding parts in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the billet. The second preforming process includes: a process of pressing regions to be a plurality of journals with a width direction of the flat part as a pressing direction by using a pair of first dies; and a process of, after starting pressing by the first dies, decentering regions to be a plurality of pins with the width direction of the flat part as a decentering direction by using second dies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Junichi OKUBO, Kenji TAMURA, Kunihiro YOSHIDA, Sam Soo HWANG, Ryusuke NAKANO, Masao HORI, Yukihiro OTA
  • Publication number: 20210172081
    Abstract: A trivalent chromium plating solution having a high plating deposition rate and being practical is provided with a trivalent chromium plating solution containing a trivalent chromium compound, a complexing agent, potassium sulfate and ammonium sulfate as a conductive salt, a pH buffer, and a sulfur-containing organic compound, containing a carboxylic acid having two or more hydroxy groups and two or more carboxy groups or a salt thereof as the complexing agent, and containing a combination of saccharin or a salt thereof and a sulfur-containing organic compound having an allyl group as the sulfur-containing organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: JCU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao HORI, Madoka NAKAGAMI, Yuto MORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210109330
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured not to move for zooming; three or four moving lens units configured to move in zooming: an aperture stop: and one or two rear lens units including a rear lens unit closest to the object side and configured not to move for zooming. An interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed in zooming. The three or four moving lens units include a moving lens unit having a negative refractive power. The three or four moving lens units include a rear positive lens unit closest to the image side and having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit includes three positive lenses. Conditional expressions are satisfied by the zoom lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura