Patents by Inventor Naoto Matsuo

Naoto Matsuo 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: 20200397263
    Abstract: This endoscope system includes: a light source that emits toward an imaging subject a first excitation light having a wavelength in a first predetermined range of a non-visible light band and a second excitation light having a wavelength in a second predetermined range of a non-visible light band; an optical filter that blocks light having wavelengths in the first predetermined range and the second predetermined range respectively; a sensor unit disposed on the emission side of the optical filter, generating a captured image of the imaging subject excited by each of the first excitation light and the second excitation light and emitting fluorescence; and an output unit for outputting the captured image of the imaging subject to a monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto MATSUO
  • Patent number: 10863896
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a non-visible light source configured to emit first excitation light and second excitation light onto a target, an image sensor configured to generate an image including the target excited by at least one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light to emit fluorescence, and an output device configured to output the image. The first excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a first wavelength of a non-visible light band. The second excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a second wavelength of the non-visible light band being different from the first wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuo, Haruhiko Kohno, Nobuhiro Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 10820789
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first light source that emits visible light, a second light source that emits non-visible light, an image sensor that generates a first image including a subject through first photoelectric conversion using the visible light and generates a second image including a subject that emits fluorescence emission light due to excitation by the non-visible light through second photoelectric conversion using the non-visible light, and an output device that alternately switches between and outputs the first image and the second image. The second light source starts light emission by a predetermined time before start of the second photoelectric conversion due to driving of the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Ogata, Yoshitaka Kitaoka, Naoto Matsuo, Haruhiko Kohno, Kunihiko Hara
  • Patent number: 10370839
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a bowl including a rim formed on the top edge of a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, a discharge path connected to the bottom of this bowl for discharging waste, and a rim spout portion disposed on this rim for spouting flush water within the bowl to form a circulating flow. The bowl further includes a shelf, formed in the circumferential direction from the rim spout portion between the waste receiving surface top edge and the rim bottom end, for guiding flush water spouted from the rim spout portion in the circumferential direction. The rim spout portion is disposed on either the left or right of either the side region or the front region of the bowl, and forms a rim spout port to spout flush water rearward. The width of the shelf is set to decrease from the side to the rear of the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Masaaki Momoe, Yuuki Shinohara, Eiji Shiohara, Naoto Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10337183
    Abstract: There is provided a flush toilet that cleans a bowl using a swirl flow formed by cleaning water flowing down from a slit aperture formed on a rim. The flush toilet has a discharge passage an inlet of which is connected to a lower portion of a waste receiving having a bowl shape, and an inlet of an inlet conduit of the discharge passage is formed such that on a horizontal cross-section plane a maximum width of a front portion in a left-right direction is larger than a maximum width of a rear portion in the left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuo, Eiji Shiohara, Hiroyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 10053849
    Abstract: A flush toilet of the present invention is provided with a toilet main body and a storage tank supplying cleaning water to a supply opening of the toilet main body. The toilet main body includes a bowl, a rim, a rim water passage formed on an entire circumference of the rim, and an aperture formed on the entire circumference of the rim, and a water conduit formed between the supply opening and the rim water passage. The water conduit includes an upstream water conduit extending to the right side from the supply opening, and a downstream water conduit extending to the left side from the upstream water conduit, and the downstream water conduit is formed such that a downstream end of an inner wall surface on the right side is positioned in the left side to a center line of the toilet main body in the left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuo, Eiji Shiohara, Hiroyuki Hara, Yoshikatsu Adachi
  • Patent number: 9995029
    Abstract: To provide a flush toilet in which: a circulating flow can be formed to uniformly circulate over a waste receiving surface while flushing; localized changes in external appearance of a toilet main body can be inhibited; and impression of a left-right symmetrical external shape can be conveyed to users so that design characteristics thereof are favorably preserved. A rim portion in a flush toilet includes a slit opening portion formed between an upper edge portion of the waste receiving surface formed to be left-right asymmetrical and a rim inside wall formed to be left-right symmetrical. The slit opening portion is formed such that a slit gap on one side, to which a connecting water conduit is directed, is smaller than a slit gap on the other side. A circulating flow is formed on the waste-receiving surface by flush water spouted from the slit opening portion having the different slit gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuo, Eiji Shiohara, Masaki Kitamura, Masaaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180087255
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a bowl including a rim formed on the top edge of a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, a discharge path connected to the bottom of this bowl for discharging waste, and a rim spout portion disposed on this rim for spouting flush water within the bowl to form a circulating flow. The bowl further includes a shelf, formed in the circumferential direction from the rim spout portion between the waste receiving surface top edge and the rim bottom end, for guiding flush water spouted from the rim spout portion in the circumferential direction. The rim spout portion is disposed on either the left or right of either the side region or the front region of the bowl, and forms a rim spout port to spout flush water rearward. The width of the shelf is set to decrease from the side to the rear of the bowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Shu KASHIRAJIMA, Masaaki MOMOE, Yuuki SHINOHARA, Eiji SHIOHARA, Naoto MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20180070806
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a non-visible light source configured to emit first excitation light and second excitation light onto a target, an image sensor configured to generate an image including the target excited by at least one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light to emit fluorescence, and an output device configured to output the image. The first excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a first wavelength of a non-visible light band. The second excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a second wavelength of the non-visible light band being different from the first wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUO, Haruhiko KOHNO, Nobuhiro TSUCHIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170241120
    Abstract: A flush toilet of the present invention is provided with a toilet main body and a storage tank supplying cleaning water to a supply opening of the toilet main body. The toilet main body includes a bowl, a rim, a rim water passage formed on an entire circumference of the rim, and an aperture formed on the entire circumference of the rim, and a water conduit formed between the supply opening and the rim water passage. The water conduit includes an upstream water conduit extending to the right side from the supply opening, and a downstream water conduit extending to the left side from the upstream water conduit, and the downstream water conduit is formed such that a downstream end of an inner wall surface on the right side is positioned in the left side to a center line of the toilet main body in the left-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUO, Eiji SHIOHARA, Hiroyuki HARA, Yoshikatsu ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20170241119
    Abstract: There is provided a flush toilet that cleans a bowl using a swirl flow formed by cleaning water flowing down from a slit aperture formed on a rim. The flush toilet has a discharge passage an inlet of which is connected to a lower portion of a waste receiving having a bowl shape, and an inlet of an inlet conduit of the discharge passage is formed such that on a horizontal cross-section plane a maximum width of a front portion in a left-right direction is larger than a maximum width of a rear portion in the left-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUO, Eiji SHIOHARA, Hiroyuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20170044751
    Abstract: To provide a flush toilet in which: a circulating flow can be formed to uniformly circulate over a waste receiving surface while flushing; localized changes in external appearance of a toilet main body can be inhibited; and impression of a left-right symmetrical external shape can be conveyed to users so that design characteristics thereof are favorably preserved. A rim portion in a flush toilet includes a slit opening portion formed between an upper edge portion of the waste receiving surface formed to be left-right asymmetrical and a rim inside wall formed to be left-right symmetrical. The slit opening portion is formed such that a slit gap on one side, to which a connecting water conduit is directed, is smaller than a slit gap on the other side. A circulating flow is formed on the waste-receiving surface by flush water spouted from the slit opening portion having the different slit gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUO, Eiji SHIOHARA, Masaki KITAMURA, Masaaki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160317003
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first light source that emits visible light, a second light source that emits non-visible light, an image sensor that generates a first image including a subject through first photoelectric conversion using the visible light and generates a second image including a subject that emits fluorescence emission light due to excitation by the non-visible light through second photoelectric conversion using the non-visible light, and an output device that alternately switches between and outputs the first image and the second image. The second light source starts light emission by a predetermined time before start of the second photoelectric conversion due to driving of the driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Shigeki OGATA, Yoshitaka KITAOKA, Naoto MATSUO, Haruhiko KOHNO, Kunihiko HARA
  • Patent number: 8639222
    Abstract: A message transmission method includes storing message data whose message contents change depending on a value of a parameter in a storage unit, acquiring the value of the parameter based on an operation of a called party when a second terminal device receives a call from a first terminal device, determining the contents of the message based on the acquired parameter value and the message data, and transmitting the message whose contents are determined to the first terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikeda, Yuuji Nanba, Shuichi Enomoto, Tooru Natsumi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yukio Kise, Hideo Shirai, Minao Tanaka, Naoto Matsuo, Takashi Nagata, Shigehiro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100258797
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device is provided, including at least one light emitting layer 5 composed of an organic material between a transparent electrode and a counter electrode, wherein the organic electroluminescent device includes an electron injection layer 6 previously provided on the organic layer side of the counter electrode which is contact disposed in a solid plate form on the organic layer and heat and pressure formed, and the electron injection layer 6 is constituted of a metal oxide. According to this configuration, it is possible to heat soften the counter electrode in a fixed plate form and join it, and it is possible to inexpensively manufacture the organic electroluminescent device 1 with ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Naoto MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20100087170
    Abstract: A message transmission method includes storing message data whose message contents change depending on a value of a parameter in a storage unit, acquiring the value of the parameter based on an operation of a called party when a second terminal device receives a call from a first terminal device, determining the contents of the message based on the acquired parameter value and the message data, and transmitting the message whose contents are determined to the first terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro IKEDA, Yuuji Nanba, Shuichi Enomoto, Tooru Natsumi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yukio Kise, Hideo Shirai, Minao Tanaka, Naoto Matsuo, Takashi Nagata, Shigehiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7486923
    Abstract: A heat generating roller, fixing equipment and an image forming apparatus in which warm-up time is shortened while preventing excessive temperature rise and good fixing performance is realized by preventing offset. The heat generating roller is formed principally by laying a high permeability conductive layer and a nonmagnetic conductive layer in layer. When a voltage is applied from a power supply to an exciting coil and an alternating current flow, magnetic flux is generated around the exciting coil and a magnetic field is formed. Magnetic coupling of a system including the heat generating roller and the exciting coil is advantageous at a low temperature and heat generation of the heat generating roller is accelerated. When the Curie point is exceeded, skin depth increases and skin resistance decreases, which suppresses generation of Joules heat and reduces heat generation of the heat generating roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Imai, Noboru Katakabe, Youichi Nakamura, Naoto Matsuo, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20090028617
    Abstract: There is provided a fixing apparatus capable of reducing the warm-up time, improving the heating efficiency, and suppressing the temperature increase out of the sheet width by using a magnetic adjuster. In this apparatus, the Currie temperature Tc of the magnetic adjuster material heated by electromagnetic induction is set to 220 degrees C. or below and the fixation setting temperature of a heating member corresponding to the portion where a recording material passes during continuous sheet feed is set lower than a value than the temperature at which the relative magnetic permeability of the magnetic adjuster material begins to decrease. Thus, it is possible to obtain a large difference between the heating portion and the non-heating portion, to surely prevent excessive temperature increase of the portion out of the recording material width, to reduce the warm-up time, and improve the heating efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Katakabe, Naoto Matsuo, Satoru Miyanishi, Yasuyuki Hanada, Masaru Imai, Hideki Tatematsu, Shigemitsu Tani
  • Publication number: 20080063445
    Abstract: A heat generating roller, fixing equipment and an image forming apparatus in which warm-up time is shortened while preventing excessive temperature rise and good fixing performance is realized by preventing occurrence of offset. In the heat generating roller, fixing equipment and image forming apparatus, the heat generating roller is formed principally by laying a high permeability conductive layer and a nonmagnetic conductive layer in layer. When a voltage is applied from a power supply (not shown) to an exciting coil and an AC current flow through it, magnetic flux is generated around the exciting coil and a magnetic field is formed. Since the heat generating roller has the high permeability conductive layer and the nonmagnetic conductive layer laid in layer, magnetic coupling of a system consisting of the heat generating roller and the exciting coil is good at the time of low temperature and heat generation of the heat generating roller is accelerated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Imai, Noboru Katakabe, Youichi Nakamura, Naoto Matsuo, Tomoyuki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20070290604
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device that can be driven over a wide brightness range from low brightness used in display applications to high brightness used in light sources, can be stably operated over a wide brightness range, is less in fluctuation between pixels, is high in the emission efficiency, is excellent in the life characteristics and has a plurality of light emitting portions is provided. An organic electroluminescent device includes a plurality of light emitting portions on a glass substrate, the light emitting portion including a pair of electrodes (anode, cathode), a light emitting layer interposed between the electrodes and a transition metal oxide layer disposed between at least one of the electrodes and the light emitting layer, the transition metal oxide layer being formed over the plurality of light emitting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei SAKANOUE, Takafumi HAMANO, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Naoto MATSUO