Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Ito

Masatoshi Ito 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).

  • Patent number: 11886067
    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical member having an optical area on which light incidents, the optical area having a rectangular shape in a plan view, a first actuator configured to displace the optical member around a first axis which passes through the center of the optical area in the plan view, and which forms an angle smaller than 90° with a first side of the optical area, and a second actuator configured to displace the glass plate around a second axis which passes through the center of the optical area, and which is perpendicular to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11874524
    Abstract: A method of driving an optical device is provided. The optical device including an optical member, a first actuator which displaces the optical member around a first axis, and a second actuator which displaces the optical member around a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The method including exciting the first actuator by inputting a first drive signal to the first actuator, exciting the second actuator by inputting a second drive signal to the second actuator, and setting a value of the second drive signal to a value for substantially stopping exciting the second actuator in a period of the exciting the first actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11857540
    Abstract: To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereinafter also referred to as pemafibrate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kowa Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryu Oshima, Masatoshi Ito, Chisato Nagai
  • Publication number: 20230266648
    Abstract: A projector according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a light source apparatus, an image generator, an optical path changer, and a projection optical apparatus. The image generator includes a light modulator that modulates the light emitted from the light source apparatus in accordance with image information to generate the image light, and a first holder that holds the light modulator. The optical path changer includes an optical part that the image light outputted from the image generator enters, an optical support section that pivotably supports the optical part, and a second holder that holds the optical support section. The projection optical apparatus includes a projection system that the light emitted from the optical path changer enters, and a third holder that holds the projection system. The first and second holders are fixed to the third holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Masatoshi ITO, Tetsuya TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11720008
    Abstract: A projector according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an optical path changer that is provided between an image formation unit and an projection optical unit and changes the optical path of image light from the image formation unit, a linkage frame that links the image formation unit and the projection optical unit to each other, and a vibration absorbing member that absorbs vibration generated by the optical path changer. The optical path changer includes a base member, an optical member, and a swing frame that supports the optical member and is swingably supported relative to the base member. The vibration absorbing member has vibration absorbing surfaces that are in contact with the base member of the optical path changer, and the vibration absorbing surfaces are in contact with support surfaces of the linkage frame to cause the support surfaces to support the optical path changer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Ito, Shinichi Wakabayashi, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11683457
    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical device including, a movable frame configured to hold an optical member, and a coupling frame to be coupled to the movable frame via an oscillation axis, and a stationary frame to which the coupling frame is fixed via a vibration absorbing member. The stationary frame has a shaft part to which the vibration absorbing member is attached, and a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other outside the shaft part, the coupling frame is disposed so as to be separated from the shaft part, the first surface, and the second surface with the vibration absorbing member, and a thickness of the vibration absorbing member existing between the coupling frame and the first surface and/or the second surface is thicker than a thickness of the vibration absorbing member existing between the coupling frame and the shaft part of the stationary frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corportation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Masatoshi Ito, Shinichi Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230168652
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system (1) includes an air conditioner (3), a management device (2), and a management server (4). The air conditioner (3) includes an auxiliary storage (33), an authentication information acquirer (300) to acquire authentication information from the management device (2) by sending identification information, which is information for identifying the air conditioner (3), to the management device (2) via a private network, and save the acquired authentication information in the auxiliary storage (33), and an authentication information presenter (301) to present, to the management server(4), the authentication information saved in the auxiliary storage (33), when accessing the management server (4) via a public network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Masatoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20230158523
    Abstract: A mist blower in one aspect of the present disclosure includes an air blower, an air feed pipe, a tank, a liquid feed pipe, a nozzle, a first electromagnetic valve, a controller, and a first manual switch. The first electromagnetic valve (i) opens the liquid feed pipe in response to the first electromagnetic valve being activated and (ii) closes the liquid feed pipe in response to the first electromagnetic valve being deactivated. The controller activates or deactivates the air blower and the first electromagnetic valve. The first manual switch (i) is manually moved by a user of the mist blower and (ii) commands the controller to activate or deactivate the air blower based on a movement of the first manual switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro NAKAMOTO, Masatoshi ITO, Ryoji ZAMA, Yuki KOIDE
  • Patent number: 11659147
    Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel configured to generate a modulated image, a sensor configured to detect a temperature of the liquid crystal panel, an optical shift element configured to shift an emission optical path of the modulated image generated by the liquid crystal panel, and a control circuit configured to control a velocity of a shift in the optical shift element according to the temperature detected by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito, Daigo Hokazono
  • Publication number: 20230115867
    Abstract: To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereitiafter also referred to as pemafiterate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pernafiterate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Ryu OSHIMA, Masatoshi ITO, Chisato NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11554109
    Abstract: To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereinafter also referred to as pemafibrate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Ryu Oshima, Masatoshi Ito, Chisato Nagai
  • Patent number: 11554110
    Abstract: To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereinafter also referred to as pemafibrate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Ryu Oshima, Masatoshi Ito, Chisato Nagai
  • Patent number: 11460756
    Abstract: A projector includes an optical path change device placed between a light modulation device and a projection optical device. The optical path change device has an optical member holding part that holds an optical member that a light modulated by the light modulation device enters, and a supporting member that swingably supports the optical member holding part. The supporting member is supported by a holding member that holds the light modulation device or the projection optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito, Takahiro Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20220296588
    Abstract: To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereinafter also referred to as pemafibrate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Ryu OSHIMA, Masatoshi ITO, Chisato NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20220299848
    Abstract: A projector according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an optical path changer that is provided between an image formation unit and an projection optical unit and changes the optical path of image light from the image formation unit, a linkage frame that links the image formation unit and the projection optical unit to each other, and a vibration absorbing member that absorbs vibration generated by the optical path changer. The optical path changer includes a base member, an optical member, and a swing frame that supports the optical member and is swingably supported relative to the base member. The vibration absorbing member has vibration absorbing surfaces that are in contact with the base member of the optical path changer, and the vibration absorbing surfaces are in contact with support surfaces of the linkage frame to cause the support surfaces to support the optical path changer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi ITO, Shinichi WAKABAYASHI, Yoshiyuki YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20220257627
    Abstract: To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereinafter also referred to as pemafibrate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Ryu OSHIMA, Masatoshi ITO, Chisato NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11372237
    Abstract: A projector includes a light outputting apparatus that outputs video light, a projection system that enlarges and projects the video light, and an optical device disposed between the light outputting apparatus and the projection system. The optical device includes a movable section including a glass plate (optical section) having a light incident surface on which the video light is incident, a shaft section that swingably supports the movable section around a first swing axis, and an actuator that causes the movable section to swing. The cross-sectional shape of the shaft section viewed in the direction along the first swing axis is a shape having a plurality of recesses recessed inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11345328
    Abstract: In a control device of a hybrid vehicle including an engine, a rotating machine, a power transmission device, and an electric oil pump, the control device comprising: a state determining portion; an electric oil pump control portion performing a test operation of the electric oil pump for determining whether the electric oil pump operates normally when it is determined that the measured temperature of the oil allows the electric oil pump to operate normally; and an engine control portion, the electric oil pump control portion performs the test operation of the electric oil pump in a predetermined period after a power supply state of the hybrid vehicle is switched to a power-on state enabling the vehicle to run and before the hybrid vehicle actually starts running, and when the test operation of the electric oil pump is performed in the predetermined period, the engine control portion starts the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuaki Kamiya, Masatoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20220163829
    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical member having an optical area on which light incidents, the optical area having a rectangular shape in a plan view, a first actuator configured to displace the optical member around a first axis which passes through the center of the optical area in the plan view, and which forms an angle smaller than 90° with a first side of the optical area, and a second actuator configured to displace the glass plate around a second axis which passes through the center of the optical area, and which is perpendicular to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi WAKABAYASHI, Masatoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20220163756
    Abstract: A method of driving an optical device is provided. The optical device including an optical member, a first actuator which displaces the optical member around a first axis, and a second actuator which displaces the optical member around a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The method including exciting the first actuator by inputting a first drive signal to the first actuator, exciting the second actuator by inputting a second drive signal to the second actuator, and setting a value of the second drive signal to a value for substantially stopping exciting the second actuator in a period of the exciting the first actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi WAKABAYASHI, Masatoshi ITO