Patents by Inventor Masaru Shimizu
Masaru Shimizu 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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Publication number: 20100298094Abstract: A clutch-by-wire system includes: an automatic clutch having a clutch disposed on a power transmission system pathway, and a clutch actuator; a clutch pedal sensor; and an electronic control device which automatically controls an operation of the clutch actuator in response to an operating state at the time of an automatic mode and controls an operation of the clutch actuator on the basis of a signal from the clutch pedal sensor at the time of a manual mode, wherein the electronic control device compares a first control amount manually controlled in response to a signal from the clutch pedal sensor with a second control amount automatically controlled in response to the operating state and controls the clutch actuator in accordance with the control amount on a non-engagement side out of the first control amount and the second control amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naochika ODA, Yoshinori Taguchi, Masaru Shimizu
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Patent number: 7632366Abstract: A folding apparatus of the present invention comprises a folding section 40 for folding a web W in two so that opposite side edges W1, W2 of the web W are in a predetermined positional relationship with respect to each other; a correction section 90 for correcting a moving direction of the web W by contacting the web W in the folding section 40; a detecting section 41, 103 for detecting a reference portion W1, W2 of the web to be used as a reference in a web folding operation so as to output positional information regarding a position of the detected reference portion W1, W2; and a control section 3 for controlling the correction section 90 based on the positional information so as to change a state of contact of the contact of the correction section 90 with the web W.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Zuiko CorporationInventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kazuo Okubo, Kikuo Yoneoka
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Patent number: 7595711Abstract: Provided is a switch for vehicles, which includes an intermittent driving device connected to a control device which opens and closes a switching device based on the magnitude of the magnetism of a magnet mounted on an operating body. Therefore, the supply of power from a battery to a detection device and the control device is intermittently performed at a predetermined period by the intermittent driving device.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kiyotaka Sasanouchi
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Publication number: 20090153278Abstract: A vehicle switch has a case, a movable body, a spring, a magnet, a detector, and an operating shaft. The movable body is reciprocably accommodated in the case. The spring pushes the movable body in a direction away from an internal bottom of the case. The magnet is attached to the movable body. The detector detects a magnetic flux density generated from the magnet. A lower end of the operating shaft is in contact with the movable body. The movable body has a press contact portion with which the operating shaft is in contact at a point or along a line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kiyotaka Uehira, Toshio Osawa
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Patent number: 7541748Abstract: Disclosed herein is a discharge lamp lighting device which realizes the minute control of the lighting sequence and electric power of a high-pressure discharge lamp and the control of various anti-error protecting functions by mounting a microcomputer. However, since microcomputer processing typically progresses in accordance with the programs previously recorded on a ROM, various actions of the discharge lamp are controlled in accordance with ROM-recorded data settings. To modify these settings, the contents of the ROM need to be updated. Therefore, a function for communicating with an external device is assigned to the microcomputer so that various data settings can be modified.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Haruna, Masaru Shimizu, Kouji Kitou, Tetsunosuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 7541903Abstract: Provided is a switch for vehicles, including a first switching device which performs the electrical connection/disconnection between a battery and a stop lamp and a second switching device connected to a control device which opens and closes the first switching device based on the magnitude of the magnetism of a magnet mounted on an operating body. Various controls such as auto-cruise control and so on as well as the turn on/off of the stop lamp can be simultaneously performed by the one magnet mounted on the operating body of the switch for vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kiyotaka Sasanouchi
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Patent number: 7532005Abstract: A rotation angle detection apparatus includes a main rotatable body, a pair of sub rotatable bodies, and a control circuit. The sub rotatable bodies are rotated in a linked motion with the rotation of the main rotatable body and are overlapped with each other. The control circuit detects a rotation angle from a rotation of one of the sub rotatable bodies, and detects a rotation phase difference between the rotation of one sub rotatable body and the rotation of the other sub rotatable body of the pair of the sub rotatable bodies. From the two detected signals, the control circuit calculates a rotation angle of the main rotatable body.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toru Arakawa, Masaru Shimizu, Masami Segawa
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Patent number: 7517063Abstract: A piezoelectric element including an upper electrode, a piezoelectric and/or electrostrictive material and a lower electrode, characterized in that the piezoelectric and/or electrostrictive material is a composite oxide constituted by ABO3 as general formula and the piezoelectric and/or electrostrictive material has a twin crystal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignees: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Ifuku, Kenichi Takeda, Tetsuro Fukui, Katsumi Aoki, Takanori Matsuda, Masaru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20090051409Abstract: Provided is a switch for vehicles, including a first switching device which performs the electrical connection/disconnection between a battery and a stop lamp and a second switching device connected to a control device which opens and closes the first switching device based on the magnitude of the magnetism of a magnet mounted on an operating body. Various controls such as auto-cruise control and so on as well as the turn on/off of the stop lamp can be simultaneously performed by the one magnet mounted on the operating body of the switch for vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kiyotaka Sasanouchi
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Publication number: 20090051408Abstract: Provided is a switch for vehicles, which includes an intermittent driving device connected to a control device which opens and closes a switching device based on the magnitude of the magnetism of a magnet mounted on an operating body. Therefore, the supply of power from a battery to a detection device and the control device is intermittently performed at a predetermined period by the intermittent driving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kiyotaka Sasanouchi
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Patent number: 7485825Abstract: The push-type vehicle switch has a case, an actuator, a movable contact, and a cap made of elastic material. The case has an opening and a fixed contact implanted inside thereof. The actuator is contained in the case reciprocably. The movable contact is provided facing the fixed contact and connects to and disconnects from the fixed contact according to reciprocable movement of the actuator. The cap covers the opening of the case.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Nishikawa, Masaru Shimizu, Hiroyuki Kosaka, Yoshiyuki Nakade, Toru Arakawa
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Patent number: 7465918Abstract: A rotation angle detector is provided with a spring to thrust a rotary body against protrusions formed on an inner wall of an opening via a detector body in a manner to keep the rotary body rotatable without any play in a linked motion with a steering shaft. As a result, the detector can detect rotation angles of the steering shaft with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Shimizu, Toru Arakawa, Hideki Tsukaoka, Toshihiro Nomura, Tsutomu Maeda
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Patent number: 7428853Abstract: A vehicle transmission apparatus includes an engine generating a driving force; a transmission having, therein, at least one input shaft being connectable to the engine and an output shaft connected to a drive wheel, the transmission being capable of establishing, therein, one of plural shift stages in response to a vehicle driving condition; at least one clutch mechanism for establishing and interrupting transmission of a driving force of the engine to the transmission, the at least one clutch mechanism being capable of being connected to the at least one input shaft; and a braking means for applying a braking force to the engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Aisin AI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Tanba, Shiro Ogami, Yuichi Fukuhara, Tomohiro Saeki, Takahiro Misu, Masaru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20080234456Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a stretched film of an olefin polymer excellent in anti-static property, which is obtained from an olefin polymer composition comprising an olefin polymer and potassium salt of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer, and a gist in construction resides in a stretched film of an olefin polymer, which has been obtained from an olefin polymer composition (C) comprising an olefin polymer (A) and potassium salt of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (B) and has been stretched at a stretching factor in terms of plane factor of at least 3 times. Stretching is preferably biaxially stretching and the olefin polymer composition (C) is preferably comprised of 99-60% by weight of the olefin polymer (A) and 1-40% by weight of potassium salt of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (B).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2005Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: Dupont-Mitsui Polychemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Sawai, Masaru Shimizu, Masanobu Sato
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Publication number: 20070290642Abstract: A vehicle switch includes a magnet mounted to an operating unit accommodated in an external packaging such that the operating unit can move linearly. A magnetic detector is placed so as to receive different strength of the magnetism from the magnet in the two cases that the operating unit is at the upper limit position and at the lower limit position. A control circuit coupled to the magnetic detector opens and closes a switching device in response to strength of the detected magnetism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Shimizu, Kiyotaka Sasanouchi, Hiroyuki Kosaka, Tsutomu Maeda
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Publication number: 20070241742Abstract: A rotation angle detection apparatus including a main rotatable body, a pair of sub rotatable bodies, and a control circuit. The sub rotatable bodies are rotated in a linked motion with the rotation of the main rotatable body and are overlapped with each other. The control circuit detects a rotation angle from a rotation of one of the sub rotatable bodies, and detects a rotation phase difference between the rotation of one sub rotatable body and the rotation of the other sub rotatable body of the pair of the sub rotatable bodies. From the two detected signals, the control circuit calculates a rotation angle of the main rotatable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventors: Toru Arakawa, Masaru Shimizu, Masami Segawa
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Patent number: 7276864Abstract: A computing circuit computes a target value of a current to be supplied to a discharge lamp and generates a pulse control signal for superpose a pulse current. Furthermore, the computing circuit controls a current control circuit so that a pulse current is superposed on a lamp current at a predetermined cycle and power supplied to the discharge lamp is kept constant. For that purpose, the computing circuit lowers a DC current level of the lamp current when a pulse current is superposed on the lamp current, and exercises control so that an integrated amount of power at a predetermined cycle is equalized to a predetermined integrated amount of power.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Haruna, Masaru Shimizu, Kouji Kitou, Tetsunosuke Nakamura
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Publication number: 20070213272Abstract: There is provided a method for inhibiting symptoms such as nausea at administration of PTH, and a pharmaceutical composition capable of inhibiting the same. The pharmaceutical composition for transmucosal administration contains hPTH or a derivative thereof and the composition is administered for purpose of increasing bone mass or bone density, and reducing an increase of risk of developing one or more symptoms selected from the group consisting of leg cramps, nausea, headache, and dizziness associated with hPTH administration. The pharmaceutical composition maintains both one formation action and bone resorption inhibiting action.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2005Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Katsuhiko Sato, Masaru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20070126374Abstract: A computing circuit computes a target value of a current to be supplied to a discharge lamp and generates a pulse control signal for superpose a pulse current. Furthermore, the computing circuit controls a current control circuit so that a pulse current is superposed on a lamp current at a predetermined cycle and power supplied to the discharge lamp is kept constant. For that purpose, the computing circuit lowers a DC current level of the lamp current when a pulse current is superposed on the lamp current, and exercises control so that an integrated amount of power at a predetermined cycle is equalized to a predetermined integrated amount of power.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2006Publication date: June 7, 2007Inventors: Fumio Haruna, Masaru Shimizu, Kouji Kitou, Tetsunosuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 7202612Abstract: A discharge lamp lighting apparatus has a problem that a microcomputer within the apparatus falls down into malfunction due to noises generated in an inside thereof. With such the structure of the discharge lamp lighting apparatus that an operation of a calculation processing circuit, which is built up with the microcomputer, etc., is stopped through stopping the supply of electric power to the calculation processing circuit or bringing it into a sleep mode, it is possible to protecting it from the malfunction, during a time period when high voltage is generated just after starting of lighting of the discharge lamp. Also, with applying a protection processing by means of the calculation processing circuit and also applying an analog protection circuit, in common with, thereby it is possible to ensure reliability thereof further.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Haruna, Masaru Shimizu, Kouji Kitou, Tetsunosuke Nakamura