Patents by Inventor Masaru Horikawa

Masaru Horikawa 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: 11935255
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a generation unit that generates generation images when a certain object is viewed at a plurality of angles such that an angle of the object with respect to a virtual light source is changed on the basis of an image of the object, a selection unit that selects a first image in which the object is viewed at a first angle from among the generation images, as a selection image, a conversion unit that converts the first image into a conversion image in which the object is viewed at a second angle that is different from the first angle in a state in which a positional relationship between the virtual light source and the object in the first image is maintained, and a display unit that displays the conversion image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Horikawa, Masaru Okutsu
  • Patent number: 7667364
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an annular stator core having teeth arranged with a spacing in a circumferential direction of the annular stator core; and coils wound around the teeth respectively. The rotor includes a rotor core and magnetic poles of segment magnets arranged annularly along a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The segment magnets are stacked at a plurality of stages in an axial direction of the rotor core. A length direction of each of the segment magnets is parallel with the axial direction of the rotor core. The following expression is satisfied: (2×?/P)+?<(360/P) where P is the number of the magnetic poles of the segment magnets at each stage, ? (electrical angle) is the effective pole angular aperture on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, and ? is the skew angle equivalent to a phase shift angle between the corresponding magnetic poles of the segment magnets at the adjacent stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Jtekt Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Niguchi, Masaru Horikawa
  • Patent number: 7595577
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes an annular stator and a rotor which has a plurality of permanent magnets alternately arranged in circumferential direction on the rotor to form poles and which is disposed within the stator to be rotatable with respect to the stator. The stator includes a cylindrical yoke and a plurality of teeth which are same in size one another, are connected to the yoke to extend therefrom toward the rotor, and are disposed at even interval in the circumferential direction. Width of each of the teeth in the circumferential direction is set to be greater than or at a vicinity of the value which is obtained by dividing outer diameter of the rotor by the number of the teeth and multiplying the result of dividing by ?/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Niguchi, Hirohide Inayama, Naotake Kanda, Masaru Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20090033174
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an annular stator core having teeth arranged with a spacing in a circumferential direction of the annular stator core; and coils wound around the teeth respectively. The rotor includes a rotor core and magnetic poles of segment magnets arranged annularly along a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The segment magnets are stacked at a plurality of stages in an axial direction of the rotor core. A length direction of each of the segment magnets is parallel with the axial direction of the rotor core. The following expression is satisfied: (2×?/P)+?<(360/P) where P is the number of the magnetic poles of the segment magnets at each stage, ? (electrical angle) is the effective pole angular aperture on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, and ? is the skew angle equivalent to a phase shift angle between the corresponding magnetic poles of the segment magnets at the adjacent stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru NIGUCHI, Masaru HORIKAWA
  • Patent number: 7355310
    Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor is of a rotating magnetic field type, and includes a stator which generates a rotating magnetic field, and a rotor having fixed magnetic poles. The rotor includes first and second rotor units arranged axially thereof. The first and second rotor units each have a rotor core, and permanent magnet pieces bonded on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core. The rotor cores of the first and second rotor units are engaged with each other. The rotor cores each have pin insertion holes into which guide pins are inserted to position the rotor units in proper circumferential positional relation with respect to each other when the rotor cores are connected to each other by bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Mori Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Kashihara, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Masaru Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20080073995
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes an annular stator and a rotor which has a plurality of permanent magnets alternately arranged in circumferential direction on the rotor to form poles and which is disposed within the stator to be rotatable with respect to the stator. The stator includes a cylindrical yoke and a plurality of teeth which are same in size one another, are connected to the yoke to extend therefrom toward the rotor, and are disposed at even interval in the circumferential direction. Width of each of the teeth in the circumferential direction is set to be greater than or at a vicinity of the value which is obtained by dividing outer diameter of the rotor by the number of the teeth and multiplying the result of dividing by ?/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Niguchi, Hirohide Inayama, Naotake Kanda, Masaru Horikawa
  • Publication number: 20080054737
    Abstract: A stator of an electric motor includes a stator core including an annular yoke. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth formed on, for example, an inner periphery of the yoke and has a coil wound on each of the teeth. Each of the teeth includes first and second end portions opposed to each other in a radial direction of the stator core. The first end portion is connected to the yoke. The second end portion is formed with an axially extending projection extending in an axial direction of the stator core. A coil receiving groove is defined between the axially extending projection and the yoke. The axially extending projection includes a distal end portion in the axial direction, and a root portion adjoining a bottom of the coil receiving groove. In the radial direction, a thickness of the root portion is greater than a thickness of the distal end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohide Inayama, Noboru Niguchi, Masaru Horikawa, Ken Matsubara, Naotake Kanda
  • Publication number: 20060091753
    Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor is of a rotating magnetic field type, and includes a stator which generates a rotating magnetic field, and a rotor having fixed magnetic poles. The rotor includes first and second rotor units arranged axially thereof. The first and second rotor units each have a rotor core, and permanent magnet pieces bonded on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core. The rotor cores of the first and second rotor units are engaged with each other. The rotor cores each have pin insertion holes into which guide pins are inserted to position the rotor units in proper circumferential positional relation with respect to each other when the rotor cores are connected to each other by bolts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keizo Kashihara, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Masaru Horikawa