Patents by Inventor Masashi Hattori
Masashi Hattori 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: 20240068881Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion device that includes an element body including a plurality of stacked; and a meandering wire inside the element body and that has a stacked structure. The meandering wire includes a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and a thermal conductivity of the plurality of stacked substrates is lower than that of the thermoelectric material. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a winding core; and a winding wire wound around the winding core. The winding wire consists only of a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a plurality of substrates and meandering wires on main surfaces of the respective substrates. The meandering wires include a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and the substrates adjacent to each other are arranged at an angle that is larger than 0 degrees and smaller than 180 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Masashi HATTORI, Mitsuru ODAHARA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Kojiro KOMAGAKI, Takahiro TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11758054Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and dwelling room master devices. When a calling operation section is operated and a dwelling unit number of a calling destination is input, a master device speech control section of the dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit including a plurality of dwelling room master devices performs a calling control of transmitting a call signal to the dwelling room master device of the calling destination having its master device ID, and subsequently forming a speech path when a response operation of the dwelling room master device of the calling destination is performed. The calling and speaking to the other dwelling unit are allowed even in a state where another dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit itself has formed a speech path with the dwelling room master device of the other dwelling unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: AiPhone Co., LtdInventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Kimiaki Fujishima, Ryoji Uno
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Patent number: 11713899Abstract: [Object] To provide a management apparatus and an air conditioning management system by which the objectivity of a comfort level evaluation relating to a smell in a room can be enhanced and a comfort level can be evaluated also with respect to an unknown smell. [Solving Means] A management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a detecting unit, an input unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The detecting unit detects a smell in a room. The input unit is operated by a user who enters the room and acquires a sensory evaluation of each user which relates to the smell in the room when the user enters the room. The storage unit accumulates evaluation data obtained by associating an output of the detecting unit and an output of the input unit with each other and stores a plurality of attributes relating to a comfort level of the smell in the room, the attributes being classified on the basis of the evaluation data.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junji Oshita, Masashi Hattori
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Publication number: 20230168166Abstract: An odor sensor includes a base material, and a plurality of MOF particles arranged on the base material. In an XRD measurement for the plurality of MOF particles arranged on the base material, in a range of 2? = 5 ° to 20 °, a peak intensity of a third highest peak is ? or less with respect to a peak intensity of a first highest peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki KANETO, Masashi HATTORI
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Patent number: 11644449Abstract: An odor is detected with high accuracy. A sensing system includes: a sensor apparatus including a filter to remove an odor-causing substance contained in air and a sensor unit including one or more detection elements to detect an amount of the odor-causing substance contained in air; and an information processing apparatus including a difference calculation unit to calculate a difference between a detection value of each of the one or more detection elements, the detection value indicating an amount of the odor-causing substance contained in air that has passed through the filter and a detection value of each of the one or more detection elements, the detection value indicating an amount of the odor-causing substance contained in air that has not passed through the filter, and a determination unit to determine an odor of air based on the calculated difference.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Onda, Masashi Hattori, Kenichi Shimomai, Jin Mikata, Taiji Ito
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Publication number: 20220311869Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a dwelling room master device. Each automatic door requires an unlock operation to pass through for proceeding to each area, and a part of the areas are occupied by facilities other than dwelling units. The collective entrance machine includes a card information input section, and the automatic doors each include an unlock operation section for unlocking using the card medium. The collective entrance machine further includes a card authentication section, an unlocking door storage section, and a card information storage section. The card authentication section permits the unlocking by the card medium when the information input to the card information input section matches the information registered in the card information storage section. The permitted card medium enables unlocking the automatic door stored in the unlocking door storage section in association with the information of the card medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Ryoji UNO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA
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Publication number: 20220294909Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The collective entrance machine is for calling a visit destination by a visitor. The dwelling room master device is for responding to the call by a dweller. The management master device is for speaking with the dweller by a manager. The management master device includes a speech permissibility storage section and a speech control section. The speech permissibility storage section registers a permissibility of calling and speaking to the dwelling room master device for each dwelling unit. The speech control section controls the calling and speaking. The speech control section does not perform the calling control when a calling operation by the management master device is performed towards the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit registered as “unpermitted” in the speech permissibility storage section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Ryoji UNO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA
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Publication number: 20220292903Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a plurality of dwelling room master devices. The collective entrance machine is for a visitor to call and speak to a dweller. The plurality of dwelling room master devices are for the dweller to respond to the call from the collective entrance machine. The dwelling room master devices each include an unlock button to unlock an entrance door through which the visitor enters the dwelling area from an entrance. Some of the dwelling room master devices have an automatic unlock mode that unlocks the entrance door without waiting for an operation of the unlock button when a call signal is transmitted from the collective entrance machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Ryoji Uno, Kimiaki Fujishima
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Publication number: 20220286563Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system include a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, a management master device, and a sensor. When the sensor detects the occurrence of the abnormality, an abnormality occurrence signal is transmitted from the dwelling room master device to the management master device, and the dwelling room master device and the management master device emit emergency alarms. The management master device includes a display section and a display control section. The display control section displays an alarm stop button to stop an emission operation on the display section when the abnormality occurrence signal is received and the emission is started. When the alarm stop button is operated, the display control section subsequently displays an emission source call button to call the dwelling room master device as a transmission source of the abnormality occurrence signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220286562Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and dwelling room master devices. When a calling operation section is operated and a dwelling unit number of a calling destination is input, a master device speech control section of the dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit including a plurality of dwelling room master devices performs a calling control of transmitting a call signal to the dwelling room master device of the calling destination having its master device ID, and subsequently forming a speech path when a response operation of the dwelling room master device of the calling destination is performed. The calling and speaking to the other dwelling unit are allowed even in a state where another dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit itself has formed a speech path with the dwelling room master device of the other dwelling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220286595Abstract: An interphone system includes a slave device and a master device. The slave device includes a camera to obtain an image of a visitor. The slave device is for calling a dweller by a visitor. The master device includes a monitor to display a video image obtained by the camera. The master device is for responding by the dweller. The master device includes a video storage section, a mute setting button, and an operation control section. The video storage section records the video image. The mute setting button is for setting a silent mode in which a call sound is not emitted. The operation control section controls a silent mode operation, so as not to emit a call sound in response to a call from the slave device and to activate the camera to store the video image in the video storage section when the silent mode is set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220286559Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The management master device is installed in a manager room to speak with the visitor or the dweller. The multiple dwelling house interphone system has a reception mode in which a call to any dwelling unit from the collective entrance machine is uniformly transmitted to the management master device. The management master device includes a forwarding button and a forwarding control section. The forwarding button re-forwards a call in the reception mode to an original calling destination. The forwarding control section re-forwards the call to the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit as the original calling destination when the forwarding button is operated when a speech path is formed with the collective entrance machine in response to the call forwarded in the reception mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220236225Abstract: [Object] To provide an arithmetic device, an arithmetic method, and a gas detection system that are capable of easily correcting deterioration over time of a detection element. [Solving Means] The arithmetic device includes a calculation unit. The calculation unit calculates a correction coefficient from a detection element that causes a resonant frequency change by adsorption of gas on the basis of a resonant frequency change amount associated with a humidity change of the detection element in a degraded state and a resonant frequency change amount associated with a humidity change of the detection element in an initial state that was acquired in advance, and corrects the resonant frequency change amount of the detection element in the degraded state by using the correction coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi HATTORI, Kenichi SHIMOMAI, Yosuke ONDA
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Publication number: 20220178871Abstract: A gas determination method uses a sensor having a field-effect transistor structure including a gate electrode, an insulating film formed on the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the insulating film, and a graphene layer formed on the insulating film and connecting the source electrode and the drain electrode to each other. The gas determination method includes: supplying gas to the graphene layer; applying a first voltage to the gate electrode for a predetermined period of time; and thereafter measuring a change in a current flowing between the source electrode and the drain electrode when a sweep voltage is applied to the gate electrode, repeating the same current measurement with a second voltage different from the first voltage, and determining the gas based on the measurement results.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Manoharan MURUGANATHAN, Gabriel AGBONLAHOR, Hiroshi MIZUTA, Kenichi SHIMOMAI, Masashi HATTORI, Yosuke ONDA
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Patent number: 11326244Abstract: Steel materials for continuously variable transmissions sheaves, and methods for manufacturing a continuously variable transmission sheaves, are provided. In the disclosed steel materials for continuously variable transmission sheaves, the steel materials satisfy the following expressions: 13.9?Fn1?15.5, and 1.20?Fn2?4.35 (in which Fn1=7×Cr?6×Si+4×Mn; and Fn2=Al×N×104).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Hattori, Kazumichi Tsukuda, Hiroyuki Nozaki, Daisuke Kasai, Takuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Ohashi, Shouji Toudou, Akira Shiga
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Publication number: 20220126276Abstract: The invention provides a catalyst for ammonia synthesis which has a high ammonia synthesis activity even at a low reaction temperature and a low reaction pressure and shows no decrease in the catalytic activity even when the synthesis reaction is repeated. The catalyst for ammonia synthesis comprises a metal supported material containing a transition metal and a support for supporting the transition metal. The support contains a metal hydride represented by XHn and an F ion. In the formula, X represents at least one kind selected from the group consisting of atoms of Group 2 and Group 3 of the periodic table, and lanthanoid atoms; and n represents a number represented by 2?n?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Michikazu HARA, Hideo HOSONO, Masashi HATTORI
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Patent number: 11280385Abstract: A transfer belt wound between a primary pulley and a secondary pulley of a continuously variable transmission, the transfer belt including: a plurality of elements, each of which has a body that includes a saddle surface and a pair of pillars that extend toward a radially outer side of the transfer belt from both sides of the saddle surface in a width direction; and a bind ring that binds the plurality of elements annularly with an inner peripheral surface of the bind ring contacting the saddle surface of each of the plurality of elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Sato, Kenji Kawano, Akira Ochi, Ryo Nakamura, Takayuki Miyake, Junichi Tokunaga, Masashi Hattori
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Patent number: 11282630Abstract: A common mode choke coil includes a body, a first spiral conductor, a second spiral conductor, a first extension conductor, and a second extension conductor. The thickness of the first extension conductor is equal to or less than (thickness of the first spiral conductor)/(winding number of the first spiral conductor), and the width of the first extension conductor is equal to or more than (width of the first spiral conductor)×(thickness of the first spiral conductor)/(thickness of the first extension conductor). The thickness of the second extension conductor is equal to or less than (thickness of the second spiral conductor)/(winding number of the second spiral conductor), and the width of the second extension conductor is equal to or more than (width of the second spiral conductor)×(thickness of the second spiral conductor)/(thickness of the second extension conductor).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Yamaguchi, Masashi Hattori
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Patent number: 11230631Abstract: To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having high transparency and excellent surface scratch resistance from the viewpoint of the design properties and a transparent resin sheet. A decorative sheet (1) according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer (4) containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component, in which a value of a peak area ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer (4) is x?0.4. Herein, S040, S130, and Sam in the following expression (1) are peak areas determined from an X-ray diffraction spectrum obtained by measuring the transparent resin layer with an X-ray diffractometer, S040 is the peak area from the Miller index (040) of polypropylene ? crystals, S130 is the peak area from the Miller index (130) of the polypropylene ? crystals, and Sam is the peak area of an amorphous material.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Miyamoto, Masashi Hattori, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 10946726Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an air conditioner to regulate a state of air in a room; a sensor device including at least one detector to detect an amount of an odor-causing substance included in the air in the room; and a control device to control operation of the air conditioner. The control device includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire a detected value of each of the at least one detector at a first timing when a person is present in the room; a second acquisition unit to acquire a detected value of each of the at least one detector at a second timing later than the first timing; a difference calculator to calculate a difference between the detected value at the first timing and the detected value at the second timing; and an instruction unit to control operation of the air conditioner based on the difference.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi Hattori, Yosuke Onda, Kenichi Shimomai, Jin Mikata, Taiji Ito