Patents by Inventor Masao Ono

Masao Ono 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).

  • Publication number: 20230073260
    Abstract: Provided is an optimization system (1) including: a plurality of individual systems (20); and a host system (12) configured to communicate to and from the individual systems (20). Each of the individual systems (20) includes: a device (electric device (30)) which is connected to an energy source (electric power system (22)), and is configured to receive energy from the energy source, or transmit energy to the energy source; and an optimization calculation module (50) configured to execute optimization calculation so that an objective function is minimized under a state in which parameters of the energy through the device are set to the objective function and a constraint condition, respectively. The host system (12) includes a host calculation module (70) configured to derive an incentive based on a plurality of optimization calculation results each derived by a corresponding one of the individual systems (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Masao ONO
  • Publication number: 20230071267
    Abstract: Provided is a charging system (1) including: one or a plurality of charging stations (10); and a host unit (16) configured to hold communication to and from the charging stations (10), wherein each of the charging stations (10) includes: a plurality of chargers (30) configured to charge batteries (20) mounted to vehicles (12); and a charging control module (42) configured to control charging by the chargers (30) in accordance with a charging schedule, wherein the host unit (16) includes a schedule management module (70) configured to create the charging schedule, and wherein the schedule management module (70) is configured to create the charging schedule in which at least part of a future electric power charge amount planned to be allocated to some of the vehicles (12) that are presently being charged is cut down to be allocated to charging for one of the vehicles (12) that requests early start of charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Masao ONO
  • Patent number: 11105376
    Abstract: In order to determine information about the generation of heat in a bearing (10) in a simple manner, a bearing (10) includes an outer ring (12) secured to a securing member, and an inner ring (11) provided on the inside of the outer ring (12) and secured to a shaft that rotates in the circumferential direction relative to the securing member. A thermal flow sensor (14) is provided as a coating on a securing-side surface that includes the outer ring (12), and generates a thermoelectromotive force including information about frictional heat generated with the rotation of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akihiro Kirihara, Masahiko Ishida, Koichi Terashima, Ryohto Sawada, Eiji Saitoh, Yasuyuki Oikawa, Ryo Iguchi, Masao Ono
  • Publication number: 20200395526
    Abstract: To protect the surface of a member exposed to a high-temperature environment and detect surface temperature or heat flow distribution, this magnetic thermoelectric conversion element, which is provided on the surface of a support in contact with a heat source, has: a magnetic body; an electromotive body which is magnetically coupled to the magnetic body and has electrical conductivity; and a heat-resistant metal oxide film covering the magnetic body and the electromotive body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masahiko ISHIDA, Akihiro KIRIHARA, Ryohto SAWADA, Eiji SAITOH, Ryo IGUCHI, Yasuyuki OIKAWA, Masao ONO
  • Patent number: 10755614
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes light modulation elements each including a plurality of pixels, and configured to modulate lights having wavelengths different from each other, and a driver configured to generate a first voltage commonly applied to the plurality of pixels in each of the plurality of light modulation elements, and a second voltage configured to determine a maximum value of a ratio of a light amount of exit light to a light amount of incident light of the plurality of pixels, and to drive the plurality of light modulation elements through a pulse width modulation of the second voltage for each pixel according to an input image signal. The driver sets the second voltage to at least one light modulation element among the plurality of light modulation elements, which is different from that of another light modulation element and drives the light modulation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kagawa, Masao Ono
  • Publication number: 20200263736
    Abstract: In order to determine information about the generation of heat in a bearing (10) in a simple manner, a bearing (10) includes an outer ring (12) secured to a securing member, and an inner ring (11) provided on the inside of the outer ring (12) and secured to a shaft that rotates in the circumferential direction relative to the securing member. A thermal flow sensor (14) is provided as a coating on a securing-side surface that includes the outer ring (12), and generates a thermoelectromotive force including information about frictional heat generated with the rotation of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicants: NEC CORPORARATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akihiro KIRIHARA, Masahilo ISHIDA, Koichi TERASHIMA, Ryohto SAWADA, Eiji SAITOH, Yasuyuki OIKAWA, Ryo IGUCHI, Masao ONO
  • Publication number: 20190371218
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes light modulation elements each including a plurality of pixels, and configured to modulate lights having wavelengths different from each other, and a driver configured to generate a first voltage commonly applied to the plurality of pixels in each of the plurality of light modulation elements, and a second voltage configured to determine a maximum value of a ratio of a light amount of exit light to a light amount of incident light of the plurality of pixels, and to drive the plurality of light modulation elements through a pulse width modulation of the second voltage for each pixel according to an input image signal. The driver sets the second voltage to at least one light modulation element among the plurality of light modulation elements, which is different from that of another light modulation element and drives the light modulation elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kagawa, Masao Ono
  • Patent number: 10366661
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of light modulation elements configured to modulate light from a light source for each color, and a driver configured to drive the plurality of light modulation elements using drive signals in accordance with a digital drive method. The driver makes different from one another start timings of the drive signals corresponding to one frame period for the plurality of light modulation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masao Ono
  • Patent number: 10304371
    Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus includes a tone setter that sets drive tones depending on input tones that are tones of an input image, a driver that controls, depending on the drive tones, a voltage applied to each of multiple pixels of a liquid crystal element to a first voltage or a second voltage lower than the first voltage in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone or controls a drive voltage applied to each of the multiple pixels, and a temperature detector that detects a temperature of or around the liquid crystal element. The tone setter changes, when the input tones include a first tone and a second tone higher than the first tone, the drive tone for the second tone depending on the detected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Ono, Masayuki Abe
  • Patent number: 10229625
    Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective sub-frame periods in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The sub-frame period corresponding to the ON and OFF periods respectively for first and second pixels of two mutually adjacent pixels is referred to as an ON/OFF adjacent period. The apparatus provides, when causing the first and second pixels to form tones adjacent to each other, a plurality of the ON/OFF adjacent periods each being 1.0 ms or less separately from each other in the one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Abe, Masao Ono
  • Patent number: 10198985
    Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, and the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The apparatus provide, when causing the pixel to form the tone using the ON period, multiple ON period sets separately from each other in the one frame period. Each ON period set includes one or more ON periods. The apparatus sets a temporal interval between temporal centers of the respective ON period sets to 60% or less of the one frame period or to 5.0 ms or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Abe, Masao Ono
  • Publication number: 20180102098
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of light modulation elements configured to modulate light from a light source for each color, and a driver configured to drive the plurality of light modulation elements using drive signals in accordance with a digital drive method. The driver makes different from one another start timings of the drive signals corresponding to one frame period for the plurality of light modulation elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventor: Masao ONO
  • Publication number: 20170069248
    Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, and the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The apparatus provide, when causing the pixel to form the tone using the ON period, multiple ON period sets separately from each other in the one frame period. Each ON period set includes one or more ON periods. The apparatus sets a temporal interval between temporal centers of the respective ON period sets to 60% or less of the one frame period or to 5.0 ms or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Masayuki Abe, Masao Ono
  • Publication number: 20170069246
    Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus includes a tone setter that sets drive tones depending on input tones that are tones of an input image, a driver that controls, depending on the drive tones, a voltage applied to each of multiple pixels of a liquid crystal element to a first voltage or a second voltage lower than the first voltage in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone or controls a drive voltage applied to each of the multiple pixels, and a temperature detector that detects a temperature of or around the liquid crystal element. The tone setter changes, when the input tones include a first tone and a second tone higher than the first tone, the drive tone for the second tone depending on the detected temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Masao Ono, Masayuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20170069247
    Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective sub-frame periods in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The sub-frame period corresponding to the ON and OFF periods respectively for first and second pixels of two mutually adjacent pixels is referred to as an ON/OFF adjacent period. The apparatus provides, when causing the first and second pixels to form tones adjacent to each other, a plurality of the ON/OFF adjacent periods each being 1.0 ms or less separately from each other in the one frame period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Masayuki Abe, Masao Ono
  • Patent number: 8258914
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a first transparent electrode substrate, a second transparent electrode substrate, a first bonding layer, a first transparent substrate, and a second bonding layer. The first transparent electrode substrate includes a first wiring pattern, a first surface, a second surface, and a first path. The second transparent electrode substrate includes a second wiring pattern, a third surface, a fourth surface, and a second path. The second path causes the third surface and the fourth surface to communicate with each other. The first bonding layer includes a first peripheral area, an opening area, and a third path. The first bonding layer bonds the first transparent electrode substrate and the second transparent electrode substrate to each other. The first transparent substrate is opposed to the second surface. The second bonding layer includes a first opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Masao Ono, Takao Murooka
  • Patent number: 8128731
    Abstract: A method for separating and enriching isotopes in an efficient and low-cost manner from a condensation-system (liquid or/and solid) material including two or more different isotopes by taking advantage of the sedimentation of atoms through an acceleration field by ultra-high speed rotation. The condensation-system material is placed in a sedimentation tank which is then housed in a supercentrifuge. The supercentrifuge in its rotor is rotation driven by an ultra-high speed rotation power source, and an acceleration field of energy of 100000 G to 1500000 G, i.e., about 100 to 800 m/s in terms of peripheral velocity, is applied to the above condensed (liquid or/and solid) material under such a temperature that is specified by an isotope material to be enriched. In this case, a difference in centrifugal force applied is provided between the isotopes in the condensed (liquid or/and solid) material comprising the at least two isotopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignees: National University Corporation Kumamoto University, Maruwa Electronic Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Mashimo, Masao Ono, Xinsheng Huang, Yusuke Iguchi, Satoru Okayasu, Hiroshi Yasuoka, Koji Shibasaki, Masanori Sueyoshi
  • Publication number: 20110128114
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a first transparent electrode substrate, a second transparent electrode substrate, a first bonding layer, a first transparent substrate, and a second bonding layer. The first transparent electrode substrate includes a first wiring pattern, a first surface, a second surface, and a first path. The second transparent electrode substrate includes a second wiring pattern, a third surface, a fourth surface, and a second path. The second path causes the third surface and the fourth surface to communicate with each other. The first bonding layer includes a first peripheral area, an opening area, and a third path. The first bonding layer bonds the first transparent electrode substrate and the second transparent electrode substrate to each other. The first transparent substrate is opposed to the second surface. The second bonding layer includes a first opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Masao Ono, Takao Murooka
  • Publication number: 20090272265
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for separating and enriching isotopes in an efficient and low-cost manner from a condensation-system (liquid or/and solid) material comprising two or more different isotopes by taking advantage of the sedimentation of atoms through an acceleration field by ultra-high speed rotation. A condensation-system (liquid or/and solid) material (5) comprising the two or more isotopes is placed in a sedimentation tank (for example, 2) which is then housed in a supercentrifuge. The supercentrifuge in its rotor is rotation driven by an ultra-high speed rotation power source, and an acceleration field of energy of 100000 G to 1500000 G, i.e., about 100 to 800 m/s in terms of peripheral velocity, is applied to the above condensed (liquid or/and solid) material under such a temperature that is specified by an isotope material to be enriched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY, MARUWA ELECTRONIC INC.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Mashimo, Masao Ono, Xinsheng Huang, Yusuke Iguchi, Satoru Okayasu, Hiroshi Yasuoka, Koji Shibasaki, Masanori Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 7544898
    Abstract: Providing a method for manufacturing a multilayer wiring board and a touch panel, which does not cause decreasing of yields, reliabilities and productivities even though the materials of each board to be stacked are different, and which manufactures the multilayer wiring board and the touch panel at low cost with high productivities. A multilayer wired board constituting at least part of a electrical circuit board in which a plurality of wired boards are stacked so as to face their wired surfaces each other, wherein: electrical connection parts between the multilayer wired boards are connected through an elastic conductive material part adhered to one of the wired boards; and at least part of a peripheral edge portion of the elastic conductive material part is adhered by a double-sided adhesive material part to seal the plurality of multilayer wired boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Hirano, Masao Ono, Nobuyuki Oikawa