Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Inoue
Noriyuki Inoue 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: 7575092Abstract: In a vehicle steering control device, a steering torque estimation unit estimates steering torque of a steering wheel based on driving current of an electric actuator; a torque sensor detects the steering torque of the steering wheel; an electric power assist unit is controlled based on the steering torque detected by the torque sensor; and a comparison unit compares the torque detected by the torque sensor with the steering torque estimated by the steering torque estimation unit. The electric power assist unit is controlled based on the estimated steering torque in place of being controlled based on the torque detected by the torque sensor when the torque sensor is judged to be abnormal, based on a comparison.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaya Endo, Noriyuki Inoue, Mineo Higuchi, Kenji Ogawa
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Publication number: 20090128990Abstract: A dielectric ceramic contains a barium titanate compound oxide as a main component; at least one rare earth element R selected from Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu; Mg; and Ni, such that a crystalline compound oxide containing the rare earth element R, Ni, and Ti as main components is present. Dielectric ceramic layers are made of the dielectric ceramic. Accordingly, even when a higher electric field is continuously applied under a high-temperature atmosphere for a long time, high reliability can be ensured.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Inoue, Toshihiro Okamatsu
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Publication number: 20090084616Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus in which, when an abnormality is generated in an electric power steering apparatus, an assist is reduced smaller than normal when a steering burden is estimated to be small; and the assist can be increased to normal and the steering burden can be sufficiently reduced when the steering burden is estimated to be large. When an abnormality is detected, an assist command is set smaller than at a normal time when there is no abnormality in a first range where the steering burden estimated by the steering burden estimation unit is small; the assist command is increased to that at a normal time in a second range where the steering burden estimated by the steering burden estimation unit is larger than the first range; and an assist torque of a motor is controlled in response to the assist command at the abnormal time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Kezobo, Noriyuki Inoue, Chiaki Fujimoto, Takayuki Kifuku, Masahiro Kimata, Kazumichi Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20090021207Abstract: A control apparatus for a multiphase AC electric motor having an inverter includes a current control including an abnormal-state current controller; an abnormal-state detector that detects an abnormal state of any of a wire of an electric motor, a wire of an inverter, and a wire connecting the electric motor to the inverter as an abnormal phase; and an abnormal phase disconnect. The abnormal phase disconnect disconnects one or more of phases detected to be in an abnormal-state and the abnormal-state current controller generates an abnormal state voltage command in accordance with detection of an abnormal state, and uses phases other than the disconnected phases of the inverter to control individual currents of the phases, with the abnormal-state voltage command used as a multiphase voltage command.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2006Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Kezobo, Masahiro Kimata, Takayuki Kifuku, Kazumichi Tsutsumi, Chiaki Fujimoto, Noriyuki Inoue
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Publication number: 20090002918Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body in which internal electrodes in a first internal electrode group are overlapped with internal electrodes in a second internal electrode group with dielectric layers sandwiched therebetween. A first external electrode has a first wraparound portion and a second wraparound portion, and a second external electrode has a third wraparound portion and a fourth wraparound portion. The volume proportions of the effective layers in a first area sandwiched between the first wraparound portion and the second wraparound portion and in a third area sandwiched between the third wraparound portion and the fourth wraparound portion are set to at least about 10%. The volume proportions of the effective layers in a second area toward a lower surface in the first area and in a fourth area toward the lower surface in the third area are set to about 15% or less. The external dimensions of the multilayer capacitor 1 are about 1.6±0.1 mm in length by about 0.8±0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi KAWASAKI, Noriyuki INOUE, Akira SAITO, Makito NAKANO, Kenichi OSHIUMI
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Patent number: 7459879Abstract: A control apparatus for an electric motor, in which a current controller giving multiphase voltage commands to a drive circuit for an inverter includes a normal-mode current controller for use in a normal mode, an abnormal-mode current controller for use in an abnormal mode, and an abnormality decision device. In a case of an abnormality occurring to one phase of an electric motor or the inverter, the controller is altered, and the abnormal-mode multiphase voltage commands which are generated by the abnormal-mode current controller are set as the multiphase voltage commands for the inverter drive circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Isao Kezobo, Masahiro Kimata, Kazumichi Tsutsumi, Chiaki Fujimoto, Kouji Fukusumi, Noriyuki Inoue
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Publication number: 20080130198Abstract: The “squeal” that occurs when an electric field is applied to a multilayer ceramic capacitor mounted on a substrate is suppressed by providing in an active part contributing to formation of capacitances between internal electrodes facing each other in a capacitor body, low-activity regions positioned near respective end edges of respective external electrodes. A facing area of the internal electrodes in the low-activity regions is less than or equal to one fifth that of the internal electrodes in a normal region having the same volume as that of the low-activity regions. This makes it possible to suppress occurrence of electric-field-induced distortion near the external electrodes bonded to a substrate and reduce the force that causes the substrate to bend.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Makito NAKANO, Noriyuki INOUE, Kenichi KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 7342767Abstract: A ceramic base body includes primary phase particles containing a CaZrO3-based compound as a primary component and secondary phase particles containing at least Mn, and internal electrodes are primarily composed of Cu. There are about 2 parts by mole or more of Mn and about 0.69 parts by mole or more of Si pph by mole of primary component, are contained in the ceramic base body, and the area ratio of the secondary phase particles on a cross-section of the ceramic base body is about 0.1% or more. Of those secondary phase particles having a particle diameter of about 0.1 ?m or more, about 67% or more (preferably about 85% or more) contains Cu and Si. A multilayer ceramic capacitor containing the ceramic base body can be manufactured by performing a heat treatment at a temperature of about 700° C. or more in a reducing atmosphere at an oxygen partial pressure of about 10?8.5 MPa or less after the formation of external electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2006Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Naito, Noriyuki Inoue
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Patent number: 7275617Abstract: In an electrical power steering apparatus, steering shaft reaction torque is estimated by a steering shaft reaction torque estimation unit, and a reference road reaction torque is estimated by a reference road reaction torque estimation unit. The estimated steering shaft reaction torque and the reference road reaction torque are weighted, and, in response, a target steering reaction torque is set by a target steering reaction torque generation unit, hysteresis width and slope of the target steering reaction torque are respectively adjusted, and steering feeling is thereby easily improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaya Endo, Masahiko Kurishige, Toshihide Satake, Noriyuki Inoue
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Publication number: 20070176577Abstract: A control apparatus for an electric motor, in which a current controller giving multiphase voltage commands to a drive circuit for an inverter includes a normal-mode current controller for use in a normal mode, an abnormal-mode current controller for use in an abnormal mode, and an abnormality decision device. In a case of an abnormality occurring to one phase of an electric motor or the inverter, the controller is altered, and the abnormal-mode multiphase voltage commands which are generated by the abnormal-mode current controller are set as the multiphase voltage commands for the inverter drive circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2005Publication date: August 2, 2007Inventors: Isao Kezobo, Masahiro Kimata, Kazumichi Tsutsumi, Chiaki Fujimoto, Kouji Fukusumi, Noriyuki Inoue
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Patent number: 7198565Abstract: An automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl is provided, in which the number of processing steps is decreased, integrated control using cams is adopted instead of individual control of prior art using hydraulic actuators, and an improvement in yield is achieved. The automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl comprises a main intermittently stepwise feeding section (11), a group of eight stations, and a cam mechanism (14). The main intermittently stepwise feeding section (11) comprises a rotary disk (12) which is rotated intermittently stepwise at an angle of 45° by means of a stepwise driving device (12a),and eight attachment cones 13 located on the peripheral part of the disk 12 at a spacing of angle of 45°.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Fujiwara, Katsuhiro Hayakawa, legal representative, Noriyuki Inoue, Kousuke Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Hayakawa, deceased
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Patent number: 7169481Abstract: A radiation image conversion panel that has a phosphor layer. The phosphor layer contains a binding agent, a phosphor particle, and at least aryl carboxylic acid or alicyclic carboxylic acid, expressed by the following general Formula: R—R1—COOX, or R—COOX in which R represents (1) an aryl group; (2) an aryl group, replaced with an alkyl group whose number of carbons is 1 to 5, a hydroxyl group, a carboxylic acid group, or a halogen group; (3) a hydroaryl group; or (4) a hydroaryl group (alicyclic group), replaced with an alkyl group whose number of carbons is 1 to 5, a hydroxyl group, or a halogen group; R1 is a hydrocarbon radical whose number of carbons is 1 to 12; and X represents a hydrogen atom, alkaline metal, or —N+ (R2)4 (where R2 represents an alkyl group whose number of carbons is 2 or less).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Ogawa, Shinichiro Fukui, Yasuo Iwabuchi, Noriyuki Inoue, Shigeo Hirano
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Publication number: 20070009719Abstract: A ceramic base body includes primary phase particles containing a CaZrO3-based compound as a primary component and secondary phase particles containing at least Mn, and internal electrodes are primarily composed of Cu. There are about 2 parts by mole or more of Mn and about 0.69 parts by mole or more of Si pph by mole of primary component, are contained in the ceramic base body, and the area ratio of the secondary phase particles on a cross-section of the ceramic base body is about 0.1% or more. Of those secondary phase particles having a particle diameter of about 0.1 ?m or more, about 67% or more (preferably about 85% or more) contains Cu and Si. A multilayer ceramic capacitor containing the ceramic base body can be manufactured by performing a heat treatment at a temperature of about 700° C. or more in a reducing atmosphere at an oxygen partial pressure of about 10?8.5 MPa or less after the formation of external electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Masahiro Naito, Noriyuki Inoue
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Publication number: 20060278467Abstract: In a vehicle steering control device, a steering torque estimation unit estimates steering torque of a steering wheel based on driving current of an electric actuator; a torque sensor detects the steering torque of the steering wheel; an electric power assist unit is controlled based on the the steering torque detected by the torque sensor; and a comparison unit compares the torque detected by the torque sensor with the steering torque estimated by the steering torque estimation unit. The electric power assist unit is controlled based on the estimated steering torque in place of being controlled based on the torque detected by the torque sensor when the torque sensor is judged to be abnormal, based on a comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaya Endo, Noriyuki Inoue, Mineo Higuchi, Kenji Ogawa
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Publication number: 20060270331Abstract: An automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl is provided, in which the number of processing steps is decreased, integrated control using cams is adopted instead of individual control of prior art using hydraulic actuators, and an improvement in yield is achieved. The automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl comprises a main intermittently stepwise feeding section (11), a group of eight stations, and a cam mechanism (14). The main intermittently stepwise feeding section (11) comprises a rotary disk (12) which is rotated intermittently stepwise at an angle of 45° by means of a stepwise driving device (12a),and eight attachment cones 13 located on the peripheral part of the disk 12 at a spacing of angle of 45°.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Applicant: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Hayakawa, Katsuhiro Hayakawa, Noriyuki Inoue, Kousuke Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7128184Abstract: A motor-driven power steering control apparatus assuring consistently comfortable steering operation of a motor vehicle includes a steering state detecting (10), a motor drive command value arithmetic device (20), a trouble detector (40), a motor drive command value corrector (51, 52) for decrementing a motor drive command value outputted from the motor drive command value corrector (51) from a predetermined initial value as a function of time lapse when a trouble detection signal is outputted from the trouble detector (40), and an element (30) for driving an assist motor in conformance with the output of the motor drive command value corrector (51, 52). The motor drive command value corrector (51, 52) includes a low-pass filter (515) for smoothing the motor drive command value. A value acquired through the low-pass filter (515) is employed as the predetermined initial value.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KasihaInventors: Toshihide Satake, Masahiko Kurishige, Kazumichi Tsutsumi, Chiaki Fujimoto, Noriyuki Inoue
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Patent number: 7128185Abstract: A motor-driven power steering control apparatus assuring consistently comfortable steering operation of a motor vehicle includes a steering state detector (10), a motor drive command value arithmetic device (20), a trouble detector (40), a motor drive command value corrector (51, 52) for decrementing a motor drive command value outputted from the motor drive command value corrector (51) from a predetermined initial value as a function of time lapse when a trouble detection signal is outputted from the trouble detector (40), and an element (30) for driving an assist motor in conformance with the output of the motor drive command value corrector (51, 52). The motor drive command value corrector (51, 52) includes a low-pass filter (515) for smoothing the motor drive command value. A value acquired through the low-pass filter (515) is employed as the predetermined initial value.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihide Satake, Masahiko Kurishige, Kazumichi Tsutsumi, Chiaki Fujimoto, Noriyuki Inoue
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Patent number: 7104879Abstract: An automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl is provided, in which the number of processing steps is decreased, integrated control using cams is adopted instead of individual control of prior art using hydraulic actuators, and an improvement in yield is achieved. The automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl comprises a main intermittently stepwise feeding section (11), a group of eight stations, and a cam mechanism (14). The main intermittently stepwise feeding section (11) comprises a rotary disk (12) which is rotated intermittently stepwise at an angle of 45° by means of a stepwise driving device (12a), and eight attachment cones 13 located on the peripheral part of the disk 12 at a spacing of angle of 45°.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Fujiwara, Katsuhiro Hayakawa, legal representative, Noriyuki Inoue, Kousuke Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Hayakawa, deceased
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Patent number: 7105251Abstract: A nonaqueous secondary battery comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode both containing a material capable of reversibly intercalating and deintercalating lithium, a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a lithium salt, and a separator, which has a least one protective layer on the negative electrode and/or the positive electrode. The battery has a high discharge potential, satisfactory charge and discharge cycle characteristics, and high safety.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Miyaki, Masuo Kabutomori, Noriyuki Inoue, Hiroshi Ishizuka, Toshiaki Aono, Mikihiko Kato, Hideki Tomiyama
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Publication number: 20060042860Abstract: In an electrical power steering apparatus, steering shaft reaction torque is estimated by a steering shaft reaction torque estimation unit, and a reference road reaction torque is estimated by a reference road reaction torque estimation unit. The estimated steering shaft reaction torque and the reference road reaction torque are weighted, and in response, a target steering reaction torque is set by a target steering reaction torque generation unit, hysteresis width and slope of the target steering reaction torque are respectively adjusted, and steering feeling is thereby easily improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2004Publication date: March 2, 2006Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaya Endo, Masahiko Kurishige, Toshihide Satake, Noriyuki Inoue