Patents by Inventor Norihiro Honda

Norihiro Honda 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: 8743378
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for automatically measuring the height, the dimensions of the inner and outer surfaces, and the shape of a cylindrically-shaped object. The measuring apparatus includes a measuring head vertically moving along a positioning guide supported by a support post integral with a measuring table, a height displacement measuring device, which comprises a laser distance meter provided on the measuring table, and an arithmetic processing unit. The measurement starts as the measuring head is raised by a weight from a measuring start position of the measuring table. The inner and outer surfaces of a tire are measured based on the measurements by an inner surface measuring device provided with three laser distance meters mounted to the measuring head and an outer surface measuring device having a laser distance meter and the displacement change measurement of the measuring head by the height displacement measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Bridgestone
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kaneko, Norihiro Honda
  • Patent number: 8106703
    Abstract: Booster circuit comprising: first transistor that is connected to first node; capacitor that has one end connected to first node, and that is charged with voltage of first node when first transistor is activated; and control signal generating circuit that provides control terminal of first transistor with control signal being in accordance with first clock, wherein when first transistor is de-activated, capacitor boosts voltage of first node to first voltage by voltage being applied to or end of capacitor, voltage applied to or end being at least ½ as great as first supply voltage, and control signal generating circuit sets voltage of control signal when first transistor is de-activated to be first voltage of first node, and sets voltage of control signal when first transistor is activated to be voltage, difference between voltage and first voltage being equal to or smaller than value of first supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignees: Renesas Electronics Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nagai, Masakazu Amanai, Masahiko Kashimura, Masato Taki, Norihiro Honda, Kazushi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8086019
    Abstract: An image of respective figures is cut out by selecting a figure from tire CAD drawings, and an arranging position of the figure is set in accordance with a distance in a radial direction form a tire center and a deformed angle in a circumferential direction of the tire from a designated location, so that a height of respective regions of the cut-out image is set. Then, the cut-out image is transformed into an image having a gray scale in accordance with the height by using the height information of respective regions, and, at an arranging position of the figure, the image having a gray scale is sampled by a predetermined interval in a radial direction from a tire center and is sampled by a predetermined angle interval in a circumferential direction of the tire, so that master data are created by the image and a distance between intersecting points becomes equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiro Honda, Tomoyuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8004902
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell that stores data by presence or absence of electrons accumulated in a floating gate, a read reference current generator that generates a read reference current for reading data from the memory cell based on a constant current from a constant current generator included therein, and a read voltage generator that generates a read voltage to be applied to a control gate of the memory cell during data reading. The read reference current generator generates a monitor voltage that varies according to variation of the read reference current and a threshold voltage of the memory cell. The read voltage generator generates the read voltage based on the monitor voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignees: Renesas Electronics Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakazu Amanai, Masahiko Kashimura, Yoshihiro Nagai, Masato Taki, Norihiro Honda, Kazushi Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20110102811
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for automatically measuring the height, the dimensions of the inner and outer surfaces, and the shape of a cylindrically-shaped object. The measuring apparatus includes a measuring head vertically moving along a positioning guide supported by a support post integral with a measuring table, a height displacement measuring device, which comprises a laser distance meter provided on the measuring table, and an arithmetic processing unit. The measurement starts as the measuring head is raised by a weight from a measuring start position of the measuring table. The inner and outer surfaces of a tire are measured based on the measurements by an inner surface measuring device provided with three laser distance meters mounted to the measuring head and an outer surface measuring device having a laser distance meter and the displacement change measurement of the measuring head by the height displacement measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA BRIDGESTONE
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kaneko, Norihiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20100301927
    Abstract: Booster circuit comprising: first transistor that is connected to first node; capacitor that has one end connected to first node, and that is charged with voltage of first node when first transistor is activated; and control signal generating circuit that provides control terminal of first transistor with control signal being in accordance with first clock, wherein when first transistor is de-activated, capacitor boosts voltage of first node to first voltage by voltage being applied to or end of capacitor, voltage applied to or end being at least ½ as great as first supply voltage, and control signal generating circuit sets voltage of control signal when first transistor is de-activated to be first voltage of first node, and sets voltage of control signal when first transistor is activated to be voltage, difference between voltage and first voltage being equal to or smaller than value of first supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicants: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAGAI, Masakazu AMANAI, Masahiko KASHIMURA, Masato TAKI, Norihiro HONDA, Kazushi YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20100124125
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell that stores data by presence or absence of electrons accumulated in a floating gate, a read reference current generator that generates a read reference current for reading data from the memory cell based on a constant current from a constant current generator included therein, and a read voltage generator that generates a read voltage to be applied to a control gate of the memory cell during data reading. The read reference current generator generates a monitor voltage that varies according to variation of the read reference current and a threshold voltage of the memory cell. The read voltage generator generates the read voltage based on the monitor voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicants: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakazu AMANAI, Masahiko KASHIMURA, Yoshihiro NAGAI, Masato TAKI, Norihiro HONDA, Kazushi YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20090226073
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of creating master data used for inspecting a concave-convex figure, which can create accurate master data with no variation. In the present invention, an image of respective figures is cut out by selecting a figure from tire CAD drawings, and an arranging position of the figure is set in accordance with a distance in a radial direction form a tire center and a deformed angle in a circumferential direction of the tire from a designated location, so that a height of respective regions of the cut-out image is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Honda, Tomoyuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7578181
    Abstract: Providing a method for correcting a data of irregularity of a surface of a body of rotation with an eccentricity included to a data being not affected by eccentricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Bridgestone
    Inventors: Tomohiro Mizuno, Norihiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20090049902
    Abstract: Providing a method for correcting a data of irregularity of a surface of a body of rotation with an eccentricity included to a data being not affected by eccentricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA BRIDGESTONE
    Inventors: Tomohiro Mizuno, Norihiro Honda