Patents by Inventor Masashi Iwasaki

Masashi Iwasaki 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: 20200141515
    Abstract: A pilot type solenoid valve may include a movable core including a main valve and a pilot valve. The main valve may open or close a valve seat. The pilot valve may be connected to a base end side of the main valve and may be axially movable alone such that the movable core is biased in a closing direction by a spring and is slidable in a guide sleeve of a fixed core wound with an electromagnetic coil. When the pilot type solenoid valve is fully open by a electromagnetic force of the electromagnetic coil, a contact portion of the main valve may contact a contacted portion of the guide sleeve to restrict movement of the main valve toward a base end, and the pilot valve may be sucked and held in a state where a base end of the pilot valve does not contact the fixed core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Masashi Iwasaki, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Tsutomu Murakami
  • Patent number: 9677507
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to improve the oil removal rate in an oil separator that separates and removes oil from gas including the oil as an impurity. The oil separator according to the present invention is characterized by including a first filter member (42) in a cylindrical shape made with a cylindrical filter material having an air permeability, and positioned such that the target gas flows in from a hollow part as well as a central axis is in an up-down direction, and a second filter member (43) made with a filter material having air permeability and wrapped around the first filter member (42) along an outer surface thereof with a predetermined spacing from the outer surface of the first filter member (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd., Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Masashi Iwasaki, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara
  • Publication number: 20150226158
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to improve the oil removal rate in an oil separator that separates and removes oil from gas including the oil as an impurity. The oil separator according to the present invention is characterized by including a first filter member (42) in a cylindrical shape made with a cylindrical filter material having an air permeability, and positioned such that the target gas flows in from a hollow part as well as a central axis is in an up-down direction, and a second filter member (43) made with a filter material having air permeability and wrapped around the first filter member (42) along an outer surface thereof with a predetermined spacing from the outer surface of the first filter member (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicants: TOKYO ROKI CO., LTD., NIKKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Masashi Iwasaki, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara
  • Patent number: 8979967
    Abstract: There is provided a filter device for gas including: a cylindrical filter case formed to be airtight; a hollow filter which is formed with an opening in a bottom part thereof, a top part of which is obstructed, and which is placed inside the filter case in such a manner that a central axis thereof substantially aligns with a central axis of the filter case; and a flow controlling plate which is attached roundly between an outlet in the top part of the filter case and the top part of the hollow filter on an inner peripheral wall of the filter case, wherein gas introduced through an inlet in a bottom part of the filter case is introduced into a hollow part of the hollow filter, and also passes through a space between an outer periphery of the hollow filter and the inner peripheral wall of the filter case, and then is discharged through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignees: Nikki Co., Ltd., Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Iwasaki, Yuka Yorita, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara
  • Publication number: 20140059984
    Abstract: There is provided a filter device for gas including: a cylindrical filter case formed to be airtight; a hollow filter which is formed with an opening in a bottom part thereof, a top part of which is obstructed, and which is placed inside the filter case in such a manner that a central axis thereof substantially aligns with a central axis of the filter case; and a flow controlling plate which is attached roundly between an outlet in the top part of the filter case and the top part of the hollow filter on an inner peripheral wall of the filter case, wherein gas introduced through an inlet in a bottom part of the filter case is introduced into a hollow part of the hollow filter, and also passes through a space between an outer periphery of the hollow filter and the inner peripheral wall of the filter case, and then is discharged through the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: TOKYO ROKI CO., LTD., NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Iwasaki, Yuka Yorita, Koji Kawayoko, Takaya Kohara, Tomoaki Fukuoka, Takatsugu Kurosawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Yoshinori Maehira, Takayuki Idehara
  • Patent number: 8306361
    Abstract: A singular value decomposition method according to the present invention is a method for performing a singular value decomposition on an arbitrary matrix A using a computer, the method including the steps of: performing an upper bidiagonalization on the matrix A so as to obtain an upper bidiagonal matrix B of the matrix A; obtaining at least one singular value ? of the matrix B as singular values of the matrix A; and obtaining a singular vector of the matrix A for the ?. The step of obtaining a singular vector of the matrix A includes a step of performing a Twisted decomposition on a matrix BTB??2I (where I is a unit matrix) by using a Miura inverse transformation, an sdLVvs transformation, an rdLVvs transformation and a Miura transformation so as to diagonalize a matrix BTB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Masashi Iwasaki, Shinya Sakano
  • Patent number: 8255447
    Abstract: The present invention provides an eigenvalue decomposition apparatus that can perform processing in parallel at high speed and high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Hiroaki Tsuboi, Taro Konda, Masashi Iwasaki, Masami Takata
  • Patent number: 8160368
    Abstract: The image feature extraction method of the present invention includes: the step of performing k2 dividing process at least once on a given image so as to convert the given image into a multi-divided image, where the k2 dividing process comprises the steps of: a) creating matrix T based on image matrix X; b) computing singular values of the matrix T; c) determining whether or not minj|?j??j?1|>?; d) if the result of the determination in the step c) is “No”, returning to the step c) subsequent to computing the singular values of the enlarged matrix T?; e) if the result of the determination in the step c) is “Yes”, obtaining U which satisfies T=USVT; f) obtaining matrix T1=UTT; and g) creating image matrix X1 based on matrix T1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, The Doshisha
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Masashi Iwasaki, Masahiko Obata, Koichi Kondo, Shohei Sasada
  • Publication number: 20100185716
    Abstract: The present invention provides an eigenvalue decomposition apparatus that can perform processing in parallel at high speed and high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Hiroaki Tsuboi, Taro Konda, Masashi Iwasaki, Masami Takata
  • Publication number: 20090324064
    Abstract: The image feature extraction method of the present invention includes: the step of performing k2 dividing process at least once on a given image so as to convert the given image into a multi-divided image, where the k2 dividing process comprises the steps of: a) creating matrix T based on image matrix X; b) computing singular values of the matrix T; c) determining whether or not minj|?j??j?1|>?; d) if the result of the determination in the step c) is “No”, returning to the step c) subsequent to computing the singular values of the enlarged matrix T?; e) if the result of the determination in the step c) is “Yes”, obtaining U which satisfies T=USVT; f) obtaining matrix T1=UTT; and g) creating image matrix X1 based on matrix T1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicants: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Masashi Iwasaki, Masahiko Obata, Koichi Kondo, Shohei Sasada
  • Patent number: 7598025
    Abstract: The present invention is characterized to provide a hologram silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity and diffraction efficiency, providing an excellent image and having less color residue and noise in a transparent part, a hologram, a method for producing the same. In the present invention, a hologram silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, wherein an average particle diameter of silver halide particles in a silver halide emulsion is 0.03 ?m to 0.07 ?m; a film thickness of the silver halide emulsion layer is 4 ?m to 9 ?m; a silver/gelatin ratio of the silver halide emulsion layer is 0.3 to 0.6; and the silver halide emulsion layer contains sensitizing dye of specific structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignees: Konica Minolta Opto Inc., Dia Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Michiue, Tomonobu Moriya, Masashi Iwasaki, Toshihiro Kubota, Masachika Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Tomoko Kumasawa, Kenji Ueda
  • Publication number: 20090216821
    Abstract: The present invention provides a singular value decomposition apparatus that can perform processing in parallel at high speed and high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Taro Konda, Masashi Iwasaki, Shinya Sakano, Masami Takata
  • Publication number: 20090028455
    Abstract: A singular value decomposition method according to the present invention is a method for performing a singular value decomposition on an arbitrary matrix A using a computer, the method including the steps of: performing an upper bidiagonalization on the matrix A so as to obtain an upper bidiagonal matrix B of the matrix A; obtaining at least one singular value ? of the matrix B as singular values of the matrix A; and obtaining a singular vector of the matrix A for the ?. The step of obtaining a singular vector of the matrix A includes a step of performing a Twisted decomposition on a matrix BTB??2I (where I is a unit matrix) by using a Miura inverse transformation, an sdLVvs transformation, an rdLVvs transformation and a Miura transformation so as to diagonalize a matrix BTB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nakamura, Masashi Iwasaki, Shinya Sakano
  • Patent number: 7406950
    Abstract: The invention can avoid an energy dissipation and a consumption of an apparatus by minimizing a driving amount of a fuel pump and maintain an improved fuel supply state, in a fuel supply system injecting a liquefied gas fuel by an injector and supplying to an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Nikki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Umerujan Sawut, Masashi Iwasaki, Shinya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070251501
    Abstract: In a fuel supply apparatus of a returnless type engine provided with fuel supply pipe lines (5, 6) extended from a fuel tank (2) and having an injector (8) in a leading end side, a fuel pump (3) having an electric motor (31) arranged in the fuel supply pipe line, and an electronic control unit (10) in which a fuel supply control program for controlling so as drive the electric motor (31) and the injector (8) is installed, a pressure sensor (11) detecting a fuel pressure so as to output to the electronic control unit (10) is arranged at a predetermined position of the fuel supply pipe line (6) in a downstream side of the fuel pump (3), and the electronic control unit (10) continuously calculates a minimum driving amount of the electric motor (31) necessary for maintaining a target fuel injection pressure on the basis of the fuel pressure value continuously detected by the electronic control unit (10) so as to command, thereby feedback controlling the operation of the fuel pump (3) and maintaining a fuel inject
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Umerujan Sawut, Masashi Iwasaki, Shinya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070246020
    Abstract: The invention can avoid an energy dissipation and a consumption of an apparatus by minimizing a driving amount of a fuel pump and maintain an improved fuel supply state, in a fuel supply system injecting a liquefied gas fuel by an injector and supplying to an engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: NIKKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Umerujan Sawut, Masashi Iwasaki, Shinya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070172779
    Abstract: The present invention is characterized to provide a hologram silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity and diffraction efficiency, providing an excellent image and having less color residue and noise in a transparent part, a hologram, a method for producing the same. In the present invention, a hologram silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, wherein an average particle diameter of silver halide particles in a silver halide emulsion is 0.03 ?m to 0.07 ?m; a film thickness of the silver halide emulsion layer is 4 ?m to 9 ?m; a silver/gelatin ratio of the silver halide emulsion layer is 0.3 to 0.6; and the silver halide emulsion layer contains sensitizing dye of specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicants: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Konica Minolta Opto Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Michiue, Tomonobu Moriya, Masashi Iwasaki, Toshihiro Kubota, Masachika Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Tomoko Kumasawa, Kenji Ueda
  • Patent number: 5736931
    Abstract: A remote control system is provided for remotely controlling at least two electronic devices one of which is a master device and the other is a slave device. Each device has a remote control sensor and both devices are connected with each other by a bus. The master device producers a command signal for commanding the slave device to send a connection confirmation signal representing that the slave device is connected to the bus. The slave device sends a connection information signal representing that the slave device is connected to the bus and is remotely controllable in response to the command signal. The master device makes a remote control signal received by the own remote control sensor ineffective when receiving the connection information signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Masashi Iwasaki, Tadamasa Yamanaka, Kazuyoshi Kamiyama, Nobuhiro Ozu
  • Patent number: 5476138
    Abstract: An improved mounting device for mounting heat exchanger elements in a motor vehicle, the mounting device including a shroud for containing and supporting heat exchangers elements and attachment members for removably securing the shroud to a selected supporting structure of a motor vehicle. The shroud includes an end wall having an opening therein, a continuous sidewall extending from the end wall for encasing the heat exchanger elements and having an open end, and circulation members for moving a cooling medium through the shroud, the medium being admitted through the open end of the sidewall and being discharged through the opening in the end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Calsonic International, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi Iwasaki, Refki El-Bourini, David L. Martin
  • Patent number: 5363122
    Abstract: A car stereo has a detachable grille attached to a body of the car stereo. The grille has a power input terminal connected to a power supply terminal of the body, a data input terminal connected to a data output terminal of the body, a display, and a microcomputer for operating the display to display data in accordance with data signal applied from the body through the data terminals. Disconnection of the data input terminal from the data output terminal under the condition of the connection between the power input terminal and the power output terminal is detected. At the disconnection, the microcomputer stops the operation of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Syoji Suenaga, Masahiro Suzuki, Masashi Iwasaki