Patents by Inventor Naoki Muro
Naoki Muro 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).
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Patent number: 11927964Abstract: An autonomous work machine that works in a work area while autonomously traveling in the work area, comprises a specification unit configured to specify, based on information of a position detection unit configured to detect position information, a self-position of the autonomous work machine, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the self-position, whether the autonomous work machine has reached a perimeter portion of a no-work area positioned within the work area, and a control unit configured to control the autonomous work machine to do a lap along the perimeter portion in a case in which the autonomous work machine is determined to have reached the perimeter portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Kameyama, Keiji Muro, Minami Kigami
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Patent number: 11670150Abstract: A heat sensor includes a base and a heat sensor body. The base is to be mounted onto a mounting surface of a building. The heat sensor body has a bottomed cylindrical shape and is to be attached to the base. The heat sensor body includes an opening, a board, a heat detection unit, and at least one wall member. The at least one wall member controls flow of a gas to cause the gas that passed through the opening to flow toward the heat detection unit. The at least one wall member separates the flow of the gas that has entered the heat sensor body from an external space through the opening into a plurality of gas flows and directs one of the plurality of gas flows, which has been separated to flow beside an inner surface of the heat sensor body, toward the heat detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Naoki Muro
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Publication number: 20220358820Abstract: A heat sensor includes a base and a heat sensor body. The base is to be mounted onto a mounting surface of a building. The heat sensor body has a bottomed cylindrical shape and is to be attached to the base. The heat sensor body includes an opening, a board, a heat detection unit, and at least one wall member. The at least one wall member controls flow of a gas to cause the gas that passed through the opening to flow toward the heat detection unit. The at least one wall member separates the flow of the gas that has entered the heat sensor body from an external space through the opening into a plurality of gas flows and directs one of the plurality of gas flows, which has been separated to flow beside an inner surface of the heat sensor body, toward the heat detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventor: Naoki MURO
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Patent number: 10295209Abstract: The air-conditioning system includes: an opening/closing device opening and closing an openable portion in an opening of a building; an air-conditioning device performing air-conditioning inside the building by consuming energy for operation; a monitoring device monitoring environmental information regarding the inside and outside of the building; and a controller controlling the opening/closing device and the air-conditioning device based on the environmental information from the monitoring device, date and time information representing a current date and time, building information representing a location condition of the building, and draft information determined by parameters including an opening area and an opening shape in the openable portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuaki Yabunouchi, Hayato Takahashi, Naoki Muro
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Patent number: 10082313Abstract: The instruction device according to the present invention is used in an air conditioning system. In a case where evaluation information concerning comfort of an air environment of an indoor space for person(s) in the indoor space corresponds to discomfort and a difference between first data on the air environment of the indoor space and second data on an air environment of an outdoor space is not less than a prescribed value, the instruction device creates setting information to use only a first air conditioning device for causing movement of air between the indoor and outdoor spaces when determining that the comfort can be improved by the first air conditioning device, and creates setting information to use a second air conditioning device for controlling the air environment of the indoor space by consuming energy resource when determining that the comfort cannot be improved by the first air conditioning device.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuaki Yabunouchi, Hayato Takahashi, Naoki Muro
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Publication number: 20170321922Abstract: In a ventilation control device, a ventilation-path setting unit is configured to set a ventilation path based on environmental information acquired by an information acquisition unit. A ventilation-quantity setting unit is configured to set a ventilation quantity based on the environmental information and the ventilation path. The ventilation-path setting unit sets a plurality of candidate paths having priorities in descending order of expected ventilation effects. In the case where a first candidate path having the highest priority is identical with a previously set ventilation path, the ventilation-path setting unit sets the first candidate path as the ventilation path, when a difference value between a room temperature previously acquired and a room temperature presently acquired is equal to or more than a threshold. The ventilation-path setting unit sets, as the ventilation path, a second candidate path having the second highest priority, when the difference value is less than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Hayato TAKAHASHI, Nobuaki YABUNOUCHI, Naoki MURO
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Publication number: 20160069579Abstract: The air-conditioning system includes: an opening/closing device opening and closing an openable portion in an opening of a building; an air-conditioning device performing air-conditioning inside the building by consuming energy for operation; a monitoring device monitoring environmental information regarding the inside and outside of the building; and a controller controlling the opening/closing device and the air-conditioning device based on the environmental information from the monitoring device, date and time information representing a current date and time, building information representing a location condition of the building, and draft information determined by parameters including an opening area and an opening shape in the openable portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Nobuaki YABUNOUCHI, Hayato TAKAHASHI, Naoki MURO
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Publication number: 20160054016Abstract: A ventilation control device is a device for setting a ventilation path in an object space of wind flowing in/out through a plurality of openings between the object space and the outside of the building. The plurality of openings is disposed in a building. An air conditioner performs air-conditioning in the building. The ventilation control device includes: a ventilation-path setting unit; and an output unit. The ventilation-path setting unit sets the ventilation path so that a ventilation path in the object space, in a state in which the air conditioner operates, differs from a path of wind sent from the air conditioner. The output unit outputs path information indicating the ventilation path set by the ventilation-path setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Hayato TAKAHASHI, Nobuaki YABUNOUCHI, Naoki MURO
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Publication number: 20160018123Abstract: The instruction device according to the present invention is used in an air conditioning system. In a case where evaluation information concerning comfort of an air environment of an indoor space for person(s) in the indoor space corresponds to discomfort and a difference between first data on the air environment of the indoor space and second data on an air environment of an outdoor space is not less than a prescribed value, the instruction device creates setting information to use only a first air conditioning device for causing movement of air between the indoor and outdoor spaces when determining that the comfort can be improved by the first air conditioning device, and creates setting information to use a second air conditioning device for controlling the air environment of the indoor space by consuming energy resource when determining that the comfort cannot be improved by the first air conditioning device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Nobuaki YABUNOUCHI, Hayato TAKAHASHI, Naoki MURO
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Publication number: 20150276234Abstract: The thermal storage control system includes a plurality of thermal storage, a ventilation pathway, a plurality of opening-closing members, and a control part. The plurality of thermal storage bodies are each provided with ventilation holes. The ventilation pathway is formed to include the ventilation holes and has a plurality of pathways from a first end to a second end so that air passes from the first end to the second end. The plurality of opening-closing members is configured to open or close the ventilation pathway. The control part is configured to individually switch control the plurality of opening-closing members. The control part is configured to switch a pathway through which an indoor air passes in the ventilation pathway by individually controlling opening and closing of the plurality of opening-closing members based on temperature of each thermal storage body and temperature of the indoor air.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Naoki Muro, Nobuaki Yabunouchi, Hayato Takahashi
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Patent number: 8912869Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a bobbin including a winding part, jaw parts extending from both ends of the winding part, and a pair of opposing side wall parts; a coil wound on the winding part; an iron core attached to the bobbin; an armature; a movable contact which contacts or is separated from a fixed contact; and a case. The jaw part is formed to extend to a part in the vicinity of a side wall of the case so as to separate a first space where the coil exists from a second space where the fixed contact and the movable contact exist. Each of the side wall parts extends from the jaw part along an axis of the bobbin in a direction toward the second space and has a distal end abutting on the case.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Horii, Junichi Watanabe, Naoki Muro
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Publication number: 20130249657Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a bobbin including a winding part, jaw parts extending from both ends of the winding part, and a pair of opposing side wall parts; a coil wound on the winding part; an iron core attached to the bobbin; an armature; a movable contact which contacts or is separated from a fixed contact; and a case. The jaw part is formed to extend to a part in the vicinity of a side wall of the case so as to separate a first space where the coil exists from a second space where the fixed contact and the movable contact exist. Each of the side wall parts extends from the jaw part along an axis of the bobbin in a direction toward the second space and has a distal end abutting on the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko HORII, Junichi WATANABE, Naoki MURO
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Patent number: 8471656Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes: an electromagnetic block a bobbin including collar parts at both ends of a coil winding part on which a coil is wound, an iron core and a yoke; a contact block including a fixed contact and a movable contact; a pair of partition walls provided in parallel with the axial direction of the coil, opposing each other with the coil sandwiched therebetween and abutting on both the collar parts of the bobbin; and a case that accommodates therein the electromagnet block, the contact block and the partition walls. Inner wall surfaces of the case abut on both the collar parts of the bobbin and the partition walls from a direction intersecting both a direction in which the pair of partition walls oppose and the axial direction of the bobbin.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Horii, Junichi Watanabe, Naoki Muro
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Patent number: 8287609Abstract: A hydrogen generating apparatus including a reformer which performs a reforming reaction using a material and steam to generate hydrogen-containing gas; a water evaporator which generates the steam supplied to the reformer; a first water pathway through which reforming water to be supplied to the water evaporator flows; a pump which supplies the reforming water to the water evaporator 1a; a second water pathway 7 branching from the first water pathway on the downstream side of the pump; a first water tank to which the water flowing through the second water pathway flows; a first flow rate controller provided on the second water pathway; and a controller which operates the pump and controls the first flow rate controller so that water flows through the second water pathway, thereby stably generating hydrogen and preventing degradation of the reformer thereof is realized.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshio Tamura, Kiyoshi Taguchi, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Shigeki Yasuda, Hideo Ohara, Naoki Muro
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Publication number: 20120092099Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes: an electromagnetic block a bobbin including collar parts at both ends of a coil winding part on which a coil is wound, an iron core and a yoke; a contact block including a fixed contact and a movable contact; a pair of partition walls provided in parallel with the axial direction of the coil, opposing each other with the coil sandwiched therebetween and abutting on both the collar parts of the bobbin; and a case that accommodates therein the electromagnet block, the contact block and the partition walls. Inner wall surfaces of the case abut on both the collar parts of the bobbin and the partition walls from a direction intersecting both a direction in which the pair of partition walls oppose and the axial direction of the bobbin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Horii, Junichi Watanabe, Naoki Muro
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Publication number: 20090291337Abstract: A hydrogen generating apparatus including a reformer which performs a reforming reaction using a material and steam to generate hydrogen-containing gas; a water evaporator which generates the steam supplied to the reformer; a first water pathway through which reforming water to be supplied to the water evaporator flows; a pump which supplies the reforming water to the water evaporator 1a; a second water pathway 7 branching from the first water pathway on the downstream side of the pump; a first water tank to which the water flowing through the second water pathway flows; a first flow rate controller provided on the second water pathway; and a controller which operates the pump and controls the first flow rate controller so that water flows through the second water pathway, thereby stably generating hydrogen and preventing degradation of the reformer thereof is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2008Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Yoshio Tamura, Kiyoshi Taguchi, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Shigeki Yasuda, Hideo Ohara, Naoki Muro