Patents by Inventor Minoru Shimizu

Minoru Shimizu 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: 20240090535
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a feed or food product in which an inner layer is encrusted with a gelled outer layer composition, the method including the steps of: preparing an outer layer composition feedstock by adding a secondary feedstock to a protein feedstock and/or a starch feedstock that forms a gel upon heating and then mixing by stirring, and preparing an inner layer composition that is encrusted with the outer layer composition; extrusion molding with an extruder provided with a double nozzle so as to cover a surface of the inner layer composition while simultaneously gelling the outer layer composition feedstock by heat treatment; and cutting a continuously extruded cylindrically shaped product to a fixed length with a shutter mechanism while simultaneously encrusting a cut surface with the gelled outer layer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi GOTO, Kazuya SHIMIZU, Hiromi ITO, Minoru MORITA, Yuji TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240083429
    Abstract: By a traveling position determination device, a traveling position determination method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a traveling position determination program, or by a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a map data structure including a traveling position of a vehicle capable of performing automated driving, an offset of the traveling position in a lateral direction of the vehicle with respect to a reference position is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: SHUN SHIMIZU, MINORU OKADA, HIROSHI INOU
  • Publication number: 20230106835
    Abstract: A target posture for a work implement at work is determined. There is provided a working system, comprising a body, a work implement attached to the body, and a computer. The computer has a trained target posture estimation model to determine a target posture for the work implement to assume at work. The computer obtains a target value for an amount of a work performed by the work implement, a period of time elapsing since the work implement started to work, and mechanical data for operation of the body and the work implement, uses the trained posture estimation model to estimate a target posture from the target value, the elapsed period of time and the mechanical data, and thus outputs the estimated target posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ARATAME, Masaki DAIMON
  • Publication number: 20230080719
    Abstract: A manipulation system is provided that is used to guide an operator to manipulate a manipulation member. The manipulation system comprises a plurality of types of manipulation members manipulated by an operator of a work machine to operate the work machine, and a memory that stores model data for each type of manipulation member as a model in manipulating the manipulation members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru SHIMIZU, Nobuyoshi YAMANAKA, Masaki DAIMON, Hiroyuki ARATAME
  • Publication number: 20230068838
    Abstract: An operator is allowed to easily recognize a difference between a manipulation actually performed when performing a work and a manipulation serving a model for the work. A manipulation guide device for a work machine includes a manipulation device, a storage unit, and a display unit. The manipulation device is manipulated by an operator of the work machine to operate the work machine. The storage unit stores model data serving as a model when the manipulation device is manipulated. The display unit displays a change over time in a result of comparison between actual manipulation data about an actual manipulation of the manipulation device by the operator and model data in a time period during an operation of the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru SHIMIZU, Nobuyoshi YAMANAKA, Masaki DAIMON, Hiroyuki ARATAME
  • Publication number: 20220195704
    Abstract: There is provided a system including a work machine, comprising a body of the work machine, a work implement attached to the body of the work machine, and a computer. The computer has a trained target posture estimation model to determine a target posture for the work implement to assume at work. The computer obtains a period of time elapsing since the work implement started to work, and mechanical data for operation of the body of the work machine and the work implement, uses the trained target posture estimation model to estimate a target posture from the elapsed period of time and the mechanical data, and thus outputs the estimated target posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Minoru SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11168458
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a work implement and a controller. The work implement includes a vehicular body that travels in excavation, a boom pivotable with respect to the vehicular body, and a bucket pivotable with respect to the boom. The controller calculates a direction of a cutting edge of the bucket, determines a direction of movement of the cutting edge by an excavation operation such that an excavation angle between the calculated direction of the cutting edge of the bucket and the direction of movement of the cutting edge by the excavation operation keeps a predetermined angle, and causes the work vehicle to perform the excavation operation in the direction of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shimizu, Nobuyoshi Yamanaka, Toshiaki Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20200040548
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a work implement and a controller. The work implement includes a vehicular body that travels in excavation, a boom pivotable with respect to the vehicular body, and a bucket pivotable with respect to the boom. The controller calculates a direction of a cutting edge of the bucket, determines a direction of movement of the cutting edge by an excavation operation such that an excavation angle between the calculated direction of the cutting edge of the bucket and the direction of movement of the cutting edge by the excavation operation keeps a predetermined angle, and causes the work vehicle to perform the excavation operation in the direction of movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru SHIMIZU, Nobuyoshi YAMANAKA, Toshiaki KUMAGAI
  • Patent number: 9952623
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9836116
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing, having a display section which displays information, in which the display section is reversed between a first position and a second position, a connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing, a posture detection section which detects any of the four postures of a first posture, a second posture, a third posture, and a fourth posture, and a display control section which controls a display state of the display section in accordance with a detection result of the posture detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawamoto, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Masami Hosaka, Shunichiro Takamura, Kenichi Ono, Takehiko Mizutani, Toshihiro Kawakubo, Nobuhiro Kumae, Tailiang Qian, Naoki Ogishita, Minoru Shimizu, Yuuki Kubota, Takuya Motoishi, Takashi Sonehara, Ryousuke Tobiyama
  • Publication number: 20170147032
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMITA, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9552014
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9507077
    Abstract: A resin composition for a light guide article-preform is described, which enables the formation of a foamed layer having a large light scattering effect on the surface of a shaped article by laser irradiation processing at low cost. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a resin composition for a light guide article-preform, which contains a resin having a mass average molecular weight of 60,000 to 150,000, and has a 30% thermal mass reduction temperature of 310° C. or lower and a difference between a 40% thermal mass reduction temperature and a 20% thermal mass reduction temperature of 7° C. or less when a thermal mass measurement is performed with starting from the state at 100° C. under air at a temperature rising rate of 5° C./min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiko Onuma, Minoru Shimizu, Kenji Yagi, Tomoyoshi Yamashita, Youhei Sechi, Yoshiya Kurachi, Shinji Saiki
  • Publication number: 20160170444
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMITA, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9280181
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150338568
    Abstract: A resin composition for a light guide article-preform is described, which enables the formation of a foamed layer having a large light scattering effect on the surface of a shaped article by laser irradiation processing at low cost. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a resin composition for a light guide article-preform, which contains a resin having a mass average molecular weight of 60,000 to 150,000, and has a 30% thermal mass reduction temperature of 310° C. or lower and a difference between a 40% thermal mass reduction temperature and a 20% thermal mass reduction temperature of 7° C. or less when a thermal mass measurement is performed with starting from the state at 100° C. under air at a temperature rising rate of 5° C./min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: FUMIKO ONUMA, MINORU SHIMIZU, KENJI YAGI, TOMOYOSHI YAMASHITA, YOUHEI SECHI, YOSHIYA KURACHI, SHINJI SAIKI
  • Publication number: 20150227168
    Abstract: There is provided an operation device including a main body that has a top surface on which an operation unit is provided, and an opening/closing member that is provided to be openable and closable with respect to the top surface of the main body, around a rotation axis positioned in an edge portion of a first side of the main body. When the opening/closing member is opened, the main body is pushed up by abutment of at least a part of the opening/closing member and a placement surface. A thickness of the main body is reduced from the first side toward a second side opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Kenji Tachibana, Kenji Watamuro, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi
  • Patent number: 9097831
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plate-like light guide element (24) provided with a light incident surface, a light exit surface (242), and an underside surface (243) disposed on the opposite side of the light exit surface (242). A foamed surface layer (244) is formed on at least a part of at least either the light exit surface (242) or the underside surface (243). The foamed surface layer (244) contains air bubbles and has a recessed sectional surface including the normal direction of the light exit surface (242) or the underside surface (243). The light guide element (24) is produced by performing infrared laser etching for at least a part of at least one of the main surfaces of a plate-like light guide element material composed of an acryl resin plate produced by a continuous plate production method, to form the foamed surface layer (244).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yagi, Minoru Shimizu, Yasuo Wakui, Yoshiya Kurachi, Masatoshi Toda
  • Patent number: D737269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Minoru Shimizu
  • Patent number: D906869
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoko Yaegashi, Minoru Shimizu