Patents by Inventor Masashi Hirano

Masashi Hirano 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: 20240088184
    Abstract: There is provided a imaging device including: an N-type region formed for each pixel and configured to perform photoelectric conversion; an inter-pixel light-shielding wall penetrating a semiconductor substrate in a depth direction and formed between N-type regions configured to perform the photoelectric conversion, the N-type regions each being formed for each of pixels adjacent to each other; a P-type layer formed between the N-type region configured to perform the photoelectric conversion and the inter-pixel light-shielding wall; and a P-type region adjacent to the P-type layer and formed between the N-type region and an interface on a side of a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya UCHIDA, Ryoji SUZUKI, Hisahiro ANSAI, Yoichi Ueda, Shinichi YOSHIDA, Yukari TAKEYA, Tomoyuki HIRANO, Hiroyuki MORI, Hirotoshi NOMURA, Yoshiharu KUDOH, Masashi OHURA, Shin IWABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220416462
    Abstract: A spring connector includes: a conductive tube; a movable pin that has a tip end portion protruding from an opening of the tube along an axial direction of the tube; a movable body that is provided inside the tube and that has one end portion in contact with a rear end portion of the movable pin; and a spring that is provided inside the tube and that is configured to urge another end portion of the movable body in a direction in which the movable pin protrudes. The other end portion of the movable body is an inclined surface inclined with respect to the axial direction, and at least one of the one end portion of the movable body and the rear end portion of the movable pin includes a convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20190163221
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device capable of equalizing a chip temperature while suppressing variation in electrical stress applied to each circuit at the time of a burn-in test. A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a current adjustment circuit capable of adjusting a current amount flowing in the current adjustment circuit itself, a flash memory for storing an adjustment amount of the current adjustment circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the current amount flowing in the current adjustment circuit in accordance with the adjustment amount when a burn-in mode signal indicating a burn-in mode is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Sachiko NISHINO, Masashi HIRANO, Seiji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9688087
    Abstract: An ink jet printer that performs printing on the three-dimensional object using an ink jet scheme is provided, the printer includes an ink jet head, and a print object retaining section, the print object retaining section includes a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, and a rotation driving section, a distance between the first shaft and the second shaft is larger than a distance between the first shaft and the third shaft, and in a case of performing printing on a three-dimensional object having a cylindrically shaped portion, the print object retaining section retains the three-dimensional object by mounting the cylindrically shaped portion on the first shaft and the second shaft, or on the first shaft and the third shaft, and the rotation driving section causes the three-dimensional object to rotate by causing at least the first shaft to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Onodera, Masashi Hirano, Toshihiro Sanuki
  • Patent number: 9561674
    Abstract: An ink-jet printer is provided and includes: a motor, generating a driving force that prompts an ink-jet head moving in a main scanning direction relative to a print object; a motor, generating a driving force by which the ink-jet head is moved; a motor pulley, being rotated by the driving force generated by the motor; a first belt wound around the motor pulley to transmit the driving force from the motor pulley toward the ink-jet head; and a decelerating pulley on which the first belt is wound around to be rotated by the driving force transmitted on the first belt. At least one of a group of motor-side teeth of the motor pulley and belt-side teeth of the first belt and a group of deceleration-side teeth of the decelerating pulley and the belt-side teeth of the first belt is a combination of intermeshable spur gear teeth and helical gear teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fukasawa, Masashi Hirano, Tsutomu Okano
  • Patent number: 9528652
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a traversing incore probe valve support has: a valve bed fixed to a traversing incore probe valve provided in a traversing incore probe guide tube extending to outside of a reactor containment vessel; a stand provided on a floor surface outside the reactor containment vessel; and a displacement allowing member that connects the stand and valve bed in such a manner that they can be displaced in an axial direction of the traversing incore probe guide tube. The displacement allowing member may include: a lower slide rail fixed to the stand valve bed and having an upward contact surface; and an upper slide rail fixed to the valve bed and having a downward contact surface that can be slid in the axial direction of the traversing incore probe guide tube while contacting the upward contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Taito Sakai, Tadashi Miyazaki, Hidehiko Yasuta, Masaharu Katsuta, Masashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 9434180
    Abstract: An ink jet printer that appropriately performs printing with high accuracy on a three-dimensional object for a portable terminal is provided. The ink jet printer includes an ink jet head that discharges ink droplets, and a print object retaining section that retains a three-dimensional objects. The print object retaining section includes a shaft member extending in a direction perpendicularly intersecting a discharging direction of the ink droplets, a housing section being a shaft retaining section that retains the shaft member in a rotatable manner, a work set member being a three-dimensional object fixing member that is a fixing member fixing the three-dimensional objects relative to the shaft member, and causes the three-dimensional objects to rotate together with the shaft member by being fixed relative to the shaft member, and a rotation driving section being a rotation stopping means for stopping rotation of the shaft member at a predeterminedly set position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Onodera, Masashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20160243861
    Abstract: An ink-jet printer is provided and includes: a motor, generating a driving force that prompts an ink-jet head moving in a main scanning direction relative to a print object; a motor, generating a driving force by which the ink-jet head is moved; a motor pulley, being rotated by the driving force generated by the motor; a first belt wound around the motor pulley to transmit the driving force from the motor pulley toward the ink-jet head; and a decelerating pulley on which the first belt is wound around to be rotated by the driving force transmitted on the first belt. At least one of a group of motor-side teeth of the motor pulley and belt-side teeth of the first belt and a group of deceleration-side teeth of the decelerating pulley and the belt-side teeth of the first belt is a combination of intermeshable spur gear teeth and helical gear teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TSUTOMU FUKASAWA, MASASHI HIRANO, TSUTOMU OKANO
  • Publication number: 20150210086
    Abstract: An ink jet printer that appropriately performs printing with high accuracy on a three-dimensional object for a portable terminalis provided. The ink jet printer includes an ink jet head that discharges ink droplets, and a print object retaining section that retains a three-dimensional objects. The print object retaining section includes a shaft member extending in a direction perpendicularly intersecting a discharging direction of the ink droplets, a housing section being a shaft retaining section that retains the shaft member in a rotatable manner, a work set member being a three-dimensional object fixing member that is a fixing member fixing the three-dimensional objects relative to the shaft member, and causes the three-dimensional objects to rotate together with the shaft member by being fixed relative to the shaft member, and a rotation driving section being a rotation stopping means for stopping rotation of the shaft member at a predeterminedly set position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiro Onodera, Masashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20150202902
    Abstract: An ink jet printer that performs printing on the three-dimensional object using an ink jet scheme is provided, the printer includes an ink jet head, and a print object retaining section, the print object retaining section includes a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, and a rotation driving section, a distance between the first shaft and the second shaft is larger than a distance between the first shaft and the third shaft, and in a case of performing printing on a three-dimensional object having a cylindrically shaped portion, the print object retaining section retains the three-dimensional object by mounting the cylindrically shaped portion on the first shaft and the second shaft, or on the first shaft and the third shaft, and the rotation driving section causes the three-dimensional object to rotate by causing at least the first shaft to rotate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiro Onodera, Masashi Hirano, Toshihiro Sanuki
  • Publication number: 20140299724
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a traversing incore probe valve support has: a valve bed fixed to a traversing incore probe valve provided in a traversing incore probe guide tube extending to outside of a reactor containment vessel; a stand provided on a floor surface outside the reactor containment vessel; and a displacement allowing member that connects the stand and valve bed in such a manner that they can be displaced in an axial direction of the traversing incore probe guide tube. The displacement allowing member may include: a lower slide rail fixed to the stand valve bed and having an upward contact surface; and an upper slide rail fixed to the valve bed and having a downward contact surface that can be slid in the axial direction of the traversing incore probe guide tube while contacting the upward contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Taito SAKAI, Tadashi Miyazaki, Hidehiko Yasuta, Masaharu Katsuta, Masashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 8845090
    Abstract: When printing on 3-dimensional objects such as covers for handheld terminals, generation of stray light may be adequately suppressed. There is provided an ink jet printer including an ink jet head, an ultraviolet irradiating portions, and an object-to-be-printed holding member, wherein the object-to-be-printed holding member includes a 3-dimensional object holding portion configured to hold a 3-dimensional object, and a light-shielding portion, the 3-dimensional object holding portion changes an orientation of the 3-dimensional object to bring a first surface to be printed and a second surface to be printed respectively to oppose the ink jet head, the light-shielding portion is provided so as to be capable of advancing and retracting in a direction of discharge at least at some position, and changes a shielding area that shields ultraviolet rays in a direction orthogonal to the direction of discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Onodera, Masashi Hirano, Toshihiro Sanuki
  • Patent number: 8790813
    Abstract: An electric storage apparatus includes a plurality of electric storage components, and a holder holding each of the electric storage components at both end portions of each of the electric storage components in a longitudinal direction. The holder includes a plurality of guide portions provided within an orthogonal plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the electric storage component and configured to move both end portions of each of the electric storage components toward a predetermined holding position, and an opening portion formed at one end of each of the guide portions and configured to insert the end portion of the electric storage component into the guide portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Murata, Masashi Hirano, Takanori Kanamori
  • Publication number: 20140118453
    Abstract: When printing on 3-dimensional objects such as covers for handheld terminals, generation of stray light may be adequately suppressed. There is provided an ink jet printer including an ink jet head, an ultraviolet irradiating portions, and an object-to-be-printed holding member, wherein the object-to-be-printed holding member includes a 3-dimensional object holding portion configured to hold a 3-dimensional object, and a light-shielding portion, the 3-dimensional object holding portion changes an orientation of the 3-dimensional object to bring a first surface to be printed and a second surface to be printed respectively to oppose the ink jet head, the light-shielding portion is provided so as to be capable of advancing and retracting in a direction of discharge at least at some position, and changes a shielding area that shields ultraviolet rays in a direction orthogonal to the direction of discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro ONODERA, Masashi HIRANO, Toshihiro SANUKI
  • Publication number: 20120148903
    Abstract: An electric storage apparatus includes a plurality of electric storage components, and a holder holding each of the electric storage components at both end portions of each of the electric storage components in a longitudinal direction. The holder includes a plurality of guide portions provided within an orthogonal plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the electric storage component and configured to move both end portions of each of the electric storage components toward a predetermined holding position, and an opening portion formed at one end of each of the guide portions and configured to insert the end portion of the electric storage component into the guide portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Murata, Masashi Hirano, Takanori Kanamori
  • Patent number: 8014543
    Abstract: Manually-operable and automatically-driveable fader operators are provided in corresponding relation to a plurality of channels, and a plurality of the fader operators are grouped in such a manner that the fader operators in a same group are operable collectively in an interlocked fashion. On a display screen, a window of a given group is opened in response to selection operation by a user, and a graphic image indicative of settings of the individual fader operators belonging to the given group is displayed. In response to operation by the user on the image displayed on the window of the given group and indicative of the settings of the individual fader operators, an image for effecting a change in the settings is displayed, and the individual fader operators belonging to the given group are automatically driven, to thereby change the settings. Such arrangements allow a grouping state of the operators to be identified visually with an increased ease and also facilitate setting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Masashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 7365261
    Abstract: In an apparatus for creating musical performance data according to operations of a user, a screen display section displays an input screen having a data input area for use in inputting of musical performance data. A position indication section operates when a first operation is taken by the user for indicating a desired position on the data input area. A display enlargement section operates when a second operation is taken eventually by the user for enlarging a local portion of the data input area around the indicated position and displaying the enlarged local portion over the data input area, thereby allowing the user to take a supplemental first operation on the enlarged local portion more easily than the first operation such that the position indication section responds to the supplemental first operation for indicating a desired position on the enlarged local portion of the data input area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Masashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 7353441
    Abstract: A flip flop circuit includes a first latch circuit which latches an input data at a leading edge of a clock signal, a second latch circuit which latches the input data at a trailing edge of the clock signal, and a selector which, during a period from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the clock signal, selects an output data from the first latch circuit, and during a period of the trailing edge to a next leading edge of the clock signal, selects an output data from the second latch circuit, in which one of the first latch circuit and the second latch circuit functions as a master latch circuit for receiving a scan data during a scan mode, and the other of the first latch circuit and the second latch circuit functions as a slave latch circuit for latching data outputted from the master latch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Masashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 7214975
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a semiconductor device that includes a logic circuit including at least one transistor with a first channel type, a first transistor with a second channel type configured to provide the logic circuit with a first voltage at a specified timing, and a precharge control unit configured to turn on at least one first channel type transistor in the logic circuit during the time when the first transistor with the second channel type provides the logic circuit with the first voltage, the precharge control unit configured to precharge a node coupled to a transistor of the first channel type in the logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Masashi Hirano
  • Patent number: RE41757
    Abstract: A sound source apparatus has operation blocks composed of softwares used to compute waveforms for generating a plurality of musical tones through a plurality of channels according to performance information. In the apparatus, a setting device sets an algorithm which determines a system composed of selective ones of the operation blocks systematically combined with each other to compute a waveform specific to one of the musical tones. A designating device responds to the performance information for designating one of the channels to be used for generating the musical tone. A generating device allocates the selective operation blocks to the one channel and systematically executes the allocated selective operation blocks according to the algorithm so as to compute the waveform to thereby generate the musical tone through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Isozaki, Hideyuki Masuda, Hideo Suzuki, Masahiro Shimizu, Masashi Hirano