Patents by Inventor Masato Tamura

Masato Tamura 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: 20240144794
    Abstract: A method for tracking and monitoring subjects and a plurality of objects. The method may include obtaining an image, wherein the image contains the subjects and the plurality of objects; extracting the subjects and the plurality of objects in the image through first feature extraction; detecting object interactions between the subjects and the plurality of objects; and tracking, through second feature extraction, subject-object pairs having detected object interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Masato TAMURA, Ravigopal VENNELAKANTI
  • Publication number: 20230005268
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to configure an object search device capable of expressing information on shapes and irregularities as features only by images, in a search for an object that is characteristic in shape or irregularity, and performing an accurate search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato TAMURA, Tomoaki YOSHINAGA, Atsushi HIROIKE, Hiromu NAKAMAE, Yuta YANASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220228344
    Abstract: To provide a frame of construction machines that can enhance the rigidity of support members. The frame comprises a bottom plate, a pair of vertical plates being disposed spacedly in a width direction on a top surface of the bottom plate and extending longitudinally and vertically, and multiple support members extending toward outside in a width direction from breadthwise outer surface of the pair of vertical plates. At least one of the multiple support members comprises a vertical wall perpendicular to the bottom plate. A breadthwise inner end part of vertical wall is welded on breadthwise outer surface of one of pair of vertical plates. A lower end of the pair of vertical plates is welded intermittently on a top surface of the bottom plate, and there exists a non-welded part where the lower end of the vertical plates is not welded on the top surface of the bottom plate under breadthwise inner end part of the vertical wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Takeshi TSUNEYOSHI, Masato TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220099289
    Abstract: A learning device, for constructing a learning model for generating a prior acceleration command value for controlling a control target in advance of the time a load on a boiler used for thermal power generation changes, includes: a learner configured to generate the learning model by mechanically learning, as learning data, a data set including a power generation command value for the thermal power generation and the prior acceleration command value which have been used in a previous operation of the boiler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato TAMURA, Shinji WATANABE, Shun INOUE, Isao UMOTO, Tomonori MATSUBARA, Shinobu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210287503
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a video analysis system and a video analysis method in which ownership between a person and baggage can be comprehensively determined. In a system that analyzes videos photographed by plural cameras, a detection/tracking process is performed for first and second objects using videos of plural cameras, and a relationship degree between the first and second objects is determined on the basis of the types of the first and second objects and a distance between the objects to be stored in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki TARUI, Tomokazu MURAKAMI, Shun FUKUDA, Masato TAMURA, Keiichi HIROKI
  • Patent number: 10774186
    Abstract: Provided are a photodegradable hydrogel in which cells can be embedded in the photodegradable gel without causing cytotoxicity when the cells are embedded in the photodegradable gel by allowing the cells to coexist at the time of preparation of the photodegradable gel, and which contains a protein as one of the main components; a culture device using the same; a method for forming tissue; and a method for separating cells. A photodegradable hydrogel is obtained by condensation of an alkyne group contained in a cyclooctyne ring or an azacyclooctyne ring of the following compound A with an azido group of the following compound B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiura, Masato Tamura, Toshiyuki Takagi, Kimio Sumaru, Toshiyuki Kanamori, Fumiki Yanagawa
  • Publication number: 20180086883
    Abstract: Provided are a photodegradable hydrogel in which cells can be embedded in the photodegradable gel without causing cytotoxicity when the cells are embedded in the photodegradable gel by allowing the cells to coexist at the time of preparation of the photodegradable gel, and which contains a protein as one of the main components; a culture device using the same; a method for forming tissue; and a method for separating cells. A photodegradable hydrogel is obtained by condensation of an alkyne group contained in a cyclooctyne ring or an azacyclooctyne ring of the following compound A with an azido group of the following compound B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinji SUGIURA, Masato TAMURA, Toshiyuki TAKAGI, Kimio SUMARU, Toshiyuki KANAMORI, Fumiki YANAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9869468
    Abstract: The burner device for high-temperature air combustion according to the present invention is equipped with a thermal insulation portion (5) that is provided facing a furnace (1) and has a throat (6); a burner nozzle (9) that is provided at the axial center of this throat and that injects a pulverized coal mixed flow (38) into the furnace through the throat; a windbox (8) that is provided so as to house this burner nozzle; an air register (16) that is provided at the distal end of the burner nozzle and that injects low-temperature secondary air from the windbox to the throat; a high-temperature air nozzle (23), one end of which opens into the furnace through the heat insulation portion; and a combustion air switching means (16, 24) that switches between injecting low-temperature secondary air to the throat through the air register and injecting high-temperature secondary air to the furnace interior through the high-temperature air nozzle, in which in steady combustion, low-temperature secondary air is injected
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Takahiro Kozaki
  • Patent number: 9822968
    Abstract: A burner comprises a nozzle main body (7) which is installed along a central axis of a throat (4) provided on a furnace wall (3) and comprises an inner nozzle (11) in which an auxiliary combustion air (24) flows and an outer nozzle (9) which is provided on an outer side and concentrically with the inner nozzle and in which a pulverized coal mixed flow (18) obtained by mixing a carrying medium with a pulverized coal flow, a wind box (5) for accommodating the nozzle main body, a secondary air regulator (8) accommodated in the wind box and provided at a tip portion of the nozzle main body, an auxiliary combustion air intake pipe (23) for introducing a combustion air as an auxiliary combustion air (22) into the inner nozzle from the wind box, a pulverized coal flow supply pipe (16) for introducing a pulverized coal mixed flow into the outer nozzle, and an oxygen-containing gas supply pipe (17) for supplying an oxygen-containing gas (19) to the pulverized coal mixed flow and raising the oxygen concentration in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Ryunosuke Itokazu
  • Patent number: 9333506
    Abstract: A vertical roller mill, comprising a pulverization table (3) which is accommodated in a housing (2), and rotated and driven by a table driving apparatus, two or more pulverization rollers (4) which are pressed against the upper side of the pulverization table and pulverized massive lumps and two or more roller pressure units (5) which press the pulverization rollers, wherein each of the roller pressure unit comprises a hydraulic cylinder (13) which applies the pressing force to the pulverization roller and a hydraulic circuit connected to the hydraulic cylinder, wherein an accumulator communicates with a pressure oil supply path of the hydraulic circuit, a first on-off valve is provided at the downstream side of a communicating position of the accumulator in the pressure oil supply path, a first bypass path which communicates with the downstream side of the communicating position of the accumulator in the pressure oil supply path and communicates with the downstream side of the on-off valve, and bypasses the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Harufumi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20150176840
    Abstract: A burner comprises a nozzle main body (7) which is installed along a central axis of a throat (4) provided on a furnace wall (3) and comprises an inner nozzle (11) in which an auxiliary combustion air (24) flows and an outer nozzle (9) which is provided on an outer side and concentrically with the inner nozzle and in which a pulverized coal mixed flow (18) obtained by mixing a carrying medium with a pulverized coal flow, a wind box (5) for accommodating the nozzle main body, a secondary air regulator (8) accommodated in the wind box and provided at a tip portion of the nozzle main body, an auxiliary combustion air intake pipe (23) for introducing a combustion air as an auxiliary combustion air (22) into the inner nozzle from the wind box, a pulverized coal flow supply pipe (16) for introducing a pulverized coal mixed flow into the outer nozzle, and an oxygen-containing gas supply pipe (17) for supplying an oxygen-containing gas (19) to the pulverized coal mixed flow and raising the oxygen concentration in the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Ryunosuke Itokazu
  • Publication number: 20140263786
    Abstract: A vertical roller mill, comprising a pulverization table (3) which is accommodated in a housing (2), and rotated and driven by a table driving apparatus, two or more pulverization rollers (4) which are pressed against the upper side of the pulverization table and pulverized massive lumps and two or more roller pressure units (5) which press the pulverization rollers, wherein each of the roller pressure unit comprises a hydraulic cylinder (13) which applies the pressing force to the pulverization roller and a hydraulic circuit connected to the hydraulic cylinder, wherein an accumulator communicates with a pressure oil supply path of the hydraulic circuit, a first on-off valve is provided at the downstream side of a communicating position of the accumulator in the pressure oil supply path, a first bypass path which communicates with the downstream side of the communicating position of the accumulator in the pressure oil supply path and communicates with the downstream side of the on-off valve, and bypasses the
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Harufumi Murakami
  • Patent number: 8820249
    Abstract: A burner having a secondary air regulator is provided. The secondary air regulator has an end plate having a bored hole penetrating in an axial direction and for forming a cylindrical space with peripheral surface opened in a space with the furnace core side surface of the wind box, a rotary damper having a bored hole penetrating in an axial direction and being capable to open or close the hole on the end plate by rotating in a peripheral direction, a sliding damper for surrounding the cylindrical space and being slidable in an axial direction, air vanes installed at a predetermined distance along circumference of the cylindrical space and for giving swirling to the secondary air, first driving means for rotating the rotary sliding damper, and second driving means for sliding the sliding damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8726819
    Abstract: A burner is arranged axially of a burner throat on a furnace wall and includes a nozzle body housed in a wind box and with a secondary air adjuster on a leading end of the nozzle body. The adjuster includes an end plate for defining together with a near-furnace side surface of the wind box a cylindrical space opened in an outer circumference thereof, a slide damper axially slidable for surrounding the cylindrical space, air vanes arranged at predetermined intervals and circumferentially of the cylindrical space for swirling a secondary air and drive means and for slide movement of the slide damper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140057217
    Abstract: A burner having a secondary air regulator is provided. The secondary air regulator has an end plate having a bored hole penetrating in an axial direction and for forming a cylindrical space with peripheral surface opened in a space with the furnace core side surface of the wind box, a rotary damper having a bored hole penetrating in an axial direction and being capable to open or close the hole on the end plate by rotating in a peripheral direction, a sliding damper for surrounding the cylindrical space and being slidable in an axial direction, air vanes installed at a predetermined distance along circumference of the cylindrical space and for giving swirling to the secondary air, first driving means for rotating the rotary sliding damper, and second driving means for sliding the sliding damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8646394
    Abstract: A burner 15 where a secondary air regulator 36 is provided on a forward end of a nozzle main unit 16 to be installed along the central axis of a burner throat 13 being installed on a furnace wall 12 and to be accommodated in a wind box 14, wherein the secondary air regulator has an end plate 37 having a bored hole 38 penetrating in an axial direction and for forming a cylindrical space 48 with peripheral surface opened in a space with the furnace core side surface of the wind box, a rotary damper 42 having a bored hole 45 penetrating in an axial direction and being capable to open or close the hole on the end plate by rotating in a peripheral direction, a sliding damper 52 for surrounding the cylindrical space and being slidable in an axial direction, air vanes 46 and 47 installed at a predetermined distance along circumference of the cylindrical space and for giving swirling to the secondary air 34, first driving means 54, 56 and 44 for rotating the rotary sliding damper, and second driving means 53 and 55 f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130305968
    Abstract: The burner device for high-temperature air combustion according to the present invention is equipped with a thermal insulation portion (5) that is provided facing a furnace (1) and has a throat (6); a burner nozzle (9) that is provided at the axial center of this throat and that injects a pulverized coal mixed flow (38) into the furnace through the throat; a windbox (8) that is provided so as to house this burner nozzle; an air register (16) that is provided at the distal end of the burner nozzle and that injects low-temperature secondary air from the windbox to the throat; a high-temperature air nozzle (23), one end of which opens into the furnace through the heat insulation portion; and a combustion air switching means (16, 24) that switches between injecting low-temperature secondary air to the throat through the air register and injecting high-temperature secondary air to the furnace interior through the high-temperature air nozzle, in which in steady combustion, low-temperature secondary air is injected
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Takahiro Kozaki
  • Patent number: 8349087
    Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes loading plural dry-etched wafers one by one in a container having a side door so as to be disposed substantially horizontally and in layers vertically therein; and blowing out a purge gas horizontally to those wafers loaded in the container for 30 sec or more after all the subject wafers are loaded in the container while the side door is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka Nambu, Nobuo Hironaga, Futoshi Ota, Toru Yokoyama, Osamu Sugawara, Ryo Satou, Masato Tamura
  • Publication number: 20110139048
    Abstract: A burner is arranged axially of a burner throat on a furnace wall and includes a nozzle body housed in a wind box and with a secondary air adjuster on a leading end of the nozzle body. The adjuster includes an end plate for defining together with a near-furnace side surface of the wind box a cylindrical space opened in an outer circumference thereof, a slide damper axially slidable for surrounding the cylindrical space, air vanes arranged at predetermined intervals and circumferentially of the cylindrical space for swirling a secondary air and drive means and for slide movement of the slide damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Tamura, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: D774397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Inventor: Masato Tamura