Patents by Inventor Minoru Hasegawa

Minoru Hasegawa 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: 20160334131
    Abstract: A resonator according to this disclosure includes a volume chamber and a communicating portion. The volume chamber and an air flow passageway of an air flow pipe can be brought into communication with each other by the communicating portion, and at least a portion of the communicating portion provides an air-permeable portion formed from an air-permeable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Minoru HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160325218
    Abstract: An air cleaner of this disclosure includes a hollow case, a filter element, and an opening end member. The hollow case defines an expanded space; the filter element defines an upstream-side expanded space and a downstream-side expanded space in the expanded space; the case includes an intake port configured to bring an upstream-side duct into communication with the upstream-side expanded space; the opening end member is formed from a material having an air permeability in a range of 0.3 to 100 sec/300 cc, and is integrated on an inner side of the intake port so as to project into the upstream-side expanded space and so as to extend a duct wall of the intake port; and D representing a diameter of the opening end member and L representing a length thereof satisfy 0.25D?L?2.0D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Minoru HASEGAWA, Akiwo SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160320089
    Abstract: An air duct of this disclosure includes: a tubular duct body formed from a non-air-permeable material; and a tubular opening end member formed from an air-permeable material. The opening end member is integrated with an end portion of the duct body so as to extend a duct wall of the duct body. D representing a diameter of the opening end member and L representing a length thereof satisfy a relationship 0.1D?L?1.5D. An air permeability of the air-permeable material is in a range of 0.3 to 100 sec/300 cc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Minoru HASEGAWA, Seisuke OKABE
  • Publication number: 20160274733
    Abstract: In a projection-type video display device that displays an image by projecting the image onto a projection object starting from a desk surface, a display screen on which a position and a gesture operation of a user are reflected is displayed in a predetermined area. An illumination and a camera are disposed in the projection-type video display device installed on the desk surface, a gesture using user's fingers is detected, and, for example, a menu screen and an operation guide are displayed according to the gesture. The shadows of the fingers are photographed by the camera, and a gesture is detected. According to the gesture, the display screen is moved, rotated, divided, or enlarged/reduced, or a menu screen is displayed. The display direction is determined in consideration of the direction of sides of the desk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru HASEGAWA, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Sakiko NARIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9369761
    Abstract: A display device includes a first interface, a second interface and a display circuit. The display device transmits a first connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the first interface to a playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the first connection confirmation signal, transmits a second connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the second interface to the playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the second connection confirmation signal, and makes a function to use the first and second interfaces between the display device and the playback device available if both response signals in reply to the first and second connection confirmation signals are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Nobuaki Kabuto, Mayuko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150281670
    Abstract: A reproducing apparatus for outputting content to an external display device, comprises a decode portion, which is configured to decode the content, and an output portion, which is configured to output the content, being decoded in the decode portion, to the external display device, wherein information relating to a limit of displaying a 3D vision is added to the content outputted from the output portion, where the content to be outputted therefrom is that, the 3D vision of which is to be limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Nobuaki Kabuto
  • Publication number: 20150256879
    Abstract: A display device includes a first interface, a second interface and a display circuit. The display device transmits a first connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the first interface to a playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the first connection confirmation signal, transmits a second connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the second interface to the playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the second connection confirmation signal, and makes a function to use the first and second interfaces between the display device and the playback device available if both response signals in reply to the first and second connection confirmation signals are received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Nobuaki Kabuto, Mayuko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9126634
    Abstract: A structure (100) for a front portion of a vehicle includes: a windshield lower member (6); a cross member (7) fixed to the windshield lower member (6); paired damper housings (4) disposed in front of both ends of the cross member (7); and paired damper housing supports (5) arranged between the cross member (7) and the damper housing (4) to drain water. The windshield lower member (6) and the cross member (7) define a closed cross section K which extends in the vehicle width direction and serves as a second intake path (R2). The cross member (7) has, in rear of the damper housing supports (5), paired left and right outside air intake openings (72a, 72b) for outside air to pass therethrough. The windshield base member (6) has a blower air intake opening (62a) opened to face one of the pair of outside air intake openings (72a, 72b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutada Sasaki, Hidefumi Nihei, Daisuke Naoi, Masanobu Eguchi, Minoru Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9066058
    Abstract: A display device includes a first interface, a second interface and a display circuit. The display device transmits a first connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the first interface to a playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the first connection confirmation signal, transmits a second connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the second interface to the playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the second connection confirmation signal, and makes a function to use the first and second interfaces between the display device and the playback device available if both response signals in reply to the first and second connection confirmation signals are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Nobuaki Kabuto, Mayuko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150015030
    Abstract: A structure (100) for a front portion of a vehicle includes: a windshield lower member (6); a cross member (7) fixed to the windshield lower member (6); paired damper housings (4) disposed in front of both ends of the cross member (7); and paired damper housing supports (5) arranged between the cross member (7) and the damper housing (4) to drain water. The windshield lower member (6) and the cross member (7) define a closed cross section K which extends in the vehicle width direction and serves as a second intake path (R2). The cross member (7) has, in rear of the damper housing supports (5), paired left and right outside air intake openings (72a, 72b) for outside air to pass therethrough. The windshield base member (6) has a blower air intake opening (62a) opened to face one of the pair of outside air intake openings (72a, 72b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kazutada Sasaki, Hidefumi Nihei, Daisuke Naoi, Masanobu Eguchi, Minoru Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8803364
    Abstract: A power transmission control device provided in a power transmitting device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to a power receiving device, the power-transmitting-side control circuit causing the power transmitting device to perform intermittent temporary power transmission, detecting a response from the power receiving device that has received the power due to the temporary power transmission to automatically detect installation of a power-receiving-side instrument that includes the power receiving device in an area in which power transmitted via non-contact power transmission can be received, and causing the power transmitting device to perform continuous normal power transmission to the power receiving device when the installation of the power-receiving-side instrument has been detected. A foreign object detection process may also be performed in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kota Onishi, Masayuki Kamiyama, Nobutaka Shiozaki, Takahiro Kamijo, Minoru Hasegawa, Haruhiko Sogabe
  • Patent number: 8692463
    Abstract: A protective film (6) having a high secondary-emission coefficient is formed on a dielectric layer (5) so as to lower the discharge voltage of a plasma display panel. When the protective film (6) is exposed to the air, it will transform or become cloudy, or the secondary-emission coefficient will lower. To prevent this problem, an inert film (60) is formed on the surface of the protective film (6). As the inert film (60), a film of a metal oxide such as SiO2 and a film of a metal such as Tb are simultaneously formed. Thus, an inert film (60) excellent in barrier property against oxygen and water in the air and enabling easy sputtering from near the discharge electrode at the aging step can be obtained. With this, a plasma display panel exhibiting a low discharge voltage can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Shinya Fukuta, Keiichi Betsui, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8643697
    Abstract: Video processing apparatus and method including a process for switching a 2D program and a 3D video program. The method has the steps of, for example: inputting a 3D video signal and a 2D video signal; discriminating whether the video signal which is inputted is the 3D video signal or the 2D video signal; and converting a clock frequency of the video signal which is determined as a 2D video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Nobuaki Kabuto
  • Patent number: 8541977
    Abstract: A coil unit includes a planar coil that has a transmission side and a non-transmission side, a magnetic sheet provided over the non-transmission side of the planar coil, and a heat sink/magnetic shield plate stacked on a side of the magnetic sheet opposite to a side that faces the planar coil, the heat sink/magnetic shield plate dissipating heat generated by the planar coil and shielding magnetism by absorbing a magnetic flux that has not been absorbed by the magnetic sheet. The heat sink/magnetic shield plate has a thickness larger than that of the magnetic sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Hirofumi Okada, Yoichiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8269375
    Abstract: A coil unit includes a first coil having an outer diameter of D1, and at least one second coil having an outer diameter of D2 (D2<D1). The at least one second coil is arranged on a transmission surface side of the first coil. A part or whole of the at least one second coil overlaps the first coil, when viewed from the transmission surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sogabe, Takahiro Kamijo, Minoru Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8207672
    Abstract: A technique for achieving both discharge voltage reduction and discharge stabilization in a PDP and the like is provided. This PDP manufacturing method includes, for a structure of a front plate structure (11) to be exposed to a discharge space (30) to be filled with a discharge gas, a step of forming a first layer (4) having an effect of discharge protective layer on a dielectric layer (3), a step of forming a second layer (5) for protecting the first layer on the first layer, and a step of forming a third layer (6) of a powder for discharge stabilization to be exposed to the discharge space (30), the steps being performed in vacuum manufacturing process. And, the structure is made such that a surface of the first layer is exposed to the discharge space (30) by a step of removing the second layer by an aging discharge in the discharge space (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Keiichi Betsui, Shinya Fukuta, Tadayoshi Kosaka, Minoru Hasegawa, Hajime Inoue, Yoshiho Seo, Tomonari Misawa
  • Publication number: 20120133733
    Abstract: A three-dimensional video image processing device includes an input unit for receiving a video image, an analysis unit for generating a histogram of a color space for each of a left and right eye video image contained in the video image to detect a feature parameter for each of the video images, and a correction unit for implementing a correction on the color space, for reducing a difference of the feature parameter of the left eye video image and the feature parameter of the right eye video image detected in the analysis unit, thereby preferably correcting a color deviation on the left and right video image of a three-dimensional video image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Hidenori SAKANIWA, Masahiro OGINO, Nobuhiro FUKUDA, Minoru HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 8188709
    Abstract: A power transmission control device used for a non-contact power transmission system includes an operation mode switching terminal that receives an operation mode switch control signal that switches a mode between an automatic mode and a switch mode, a power transmitting device starting normal power transmission in the automatic mode after installation of a power-receiving-side instrument that includes a power receiving device in an area in which power transmitted via non-contact power transmission can be received has been automatically detected, the normal power transmission supplying power to a load of the power-receiving-side instrument, and the power transmitting device starting the normal power transmission in the switch mode after an operation trigger switch has been turned ON, an operation trigger terminal that receives an operation trigger signal that occurs due to an operation of the operation trigger switch, and a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to the power
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kota Onishi, Masayuki Kamiyama, Nobutaka Shiozaki, Takahiro Kamijo, Minoru Hasegawa, Haruhiko Sogabe
  • Patent number: 8169286
    Abstract: A coil unit includes a planar coil, a printed circuit board that includes a planar coil placement section that receives the planar coil, a protective sheet that is provided on a transmission side of the planar coil and protects the planar coil, and a magnetic sheet that is provided on a non-transmission side of the planar coil. The planar coil is placed in the planar coil placement section and is electrically connected to the printed circuit board. The planar coil placement section has a shape that corresponds to an external shape of the planar coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Hasegawa, Masao Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20120081514
    Abstract: A reproducing apparatus for outputting content to an external display device, comprises a decode portion, which is configured to decode the content, and an output portion, which is configured to output the content, being decoded in the decode portion, to the external display device, wherein information relating to a limit of displaying a 3D vision is added to the content outputted from the output portion, where the content to be outputted therefrom is that, the 3D vision of which is to be limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Minoru HASEGAWA, Nobuaki Kabuto