Patents by Inventor Satoshi Endo

Satoshi Endo 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: 10298000
    Abstract: A door hole seal is provided between an inner panel and a door trim of an automobile door. The door hole seal comprises a slit mechanism used to pull out a wire harness from an outer-cabin side to an inner-cabin side or from the inner-cabin side to the outer-cabin side. The slit mechanism comprises a first slit extending up and down with respect to the main sheet and a circular hole formed at a lower end of the first slit. The circular hole has a diameter that is identical to or slightly smaller than that of a wire harness, and is arranged to receive the wire harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Itsuki, Naoya Sasaki, Satoshi Endo, Hiromu Inoue
  • Patent number: 10281495
    Abstract: A switcher transmits, to an extractor/signal determiner, a converted current signal generated by a current-voltage converter when a converted current signal determiner determines that the converted current signal is generated by transmission of a current signal over a communication line, in the meantime, performs a switch-over so as not to transmit, to the extractor/signal determiner, a converted voltage signal generated by a voltage sensor. In addition, the switcher transmits, to the extractor/signal determiner, the converted voltage signal when a converted voltage signal determiner determines that the converted voltage signal is generated by transmission of a voltage signal over a communication line, in the meantime, performs a switch-over so as not to transmit, to the extractor/signal determiner, the converted current signal generated by the current-voltage converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai
  • Publication number: 20190129176
    Abstract: An apparatus control system includes smart glasses worn by a user, a home electrical apparatus that is a target of control, and a controller that controls the home electrical apparatus. In the smart glasses, a sensor detects information including at least one of image information, motion information, biological information, or environmental information. A communicator transmits to the controller the information detected by the sensor. The controller, based on the information detected by the sensor, determines a recommended operation indicating operational content recommended with respect to a recommended apparatus, and transmits the determined recommended operation to the smart glasses. The communicator receives the recommended operation transmitted from the controller. The display displays a candidate group for selection of the home electrical apparatus along with a recommended operation received from the communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi ENDO, Masayuki KOMATSU, Satoshi HANAI
  • Patent number: 10269237
    Abstract: Upon receiving a command signal transmitted from a remote controller (100), based on contents of the received command signal, a setter of an electrical apparatus sets a time interval for prohibition of operation from an operation terminal. During the time interval set by the setter, an operation controller of the electrical apparatus does not control based on the received command signal, even if a command signal transmitted from the operation terminal is received via a HEMS controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama, Masayuki Komatsu, Yuki Ogawa, Kaori Sato
  • Patent number: 10259335
    Abstract: An energy management system includes an energy management controller and a power conditioning system that charges and discharges a storage battery installed in an electric vehicle. The energy management controller includes: a charge/discharge controller that is configured to, in accordance with an operation mode having an operation right among a plurality of operation modes, control charging and discharging of the storage battery through the power conditioning system; and an operation right granter that is configured to determine an operation mode to which the operation right is to be granted next based on a predetermined transition condition, and to grant the operation right to the operation mode determined thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama, Yuki Ogawa, Kaori Sato
  • Patent number: 10232689
    Abstract: A vehicular door structure includes a door inner panel in which a work aperture is formed, a sealing sheet configured to close the work aperture, a sealing compound application section formed at the door inner panel, and an attachment member configured to hold a wire-shaped member and attach the wire-shaped member to the door inner panel, wherein the attachment member is disposed in the middle of an extension direction of the sealing compound application section, and a sealing compound configured to adhere the sealing sheet to the door inner panel side is continuously applied across the sealing compound application section and the attachment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Hiromu Inoue
  • Patent number: 10145575
    Abstract: An air conditioner control system comprises air conditioners configured to condition an environment in a target space, an integrated controller configured to control the air conditioners based on control parameter data, sensor devices configured to measure the temperature of the target space and transmit measurement data, and wireless master devices configured to create control parameter data based on the measurement data. The wireless master devices each determine sleep times so that at least two sensor devices run out of battery charge around the same time according to the remaining charge amount of each of the sensor devices. The sensor devices each will be in the sleep mode in which power consumption is lower than in the normal mode according to the sleep time decided by the wireless master devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toshihiro Mega, Kazuo Tomisawa, Tomoyuki Kamimura
  • Patent number: 10135248
    Abstract: A control apparatus is configured to control a control target device among load devices for which power supply from an electricity storage apparatus is controlled based on total power consumption of the load devices. The control apparatus includes a power monitor and a device controller. The power monitor is configured to acquire a value of the total power consumption of the load devices. The device controller is configured to control the control target device to change the power consumption of the control target device so that the value of the total power consumption changes to a value having a level where the electricity storage apparatus supplies the power to the load devices when the value of the total power consumption acquired by the power monitor is at a level where the power is not supplied from the electricity storage apparatus to the electrical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kaori Sato, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Minezawa, Satoshi Endo, Ichiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10096401
    Abstract: In order to provide a technique for obtaining a wire harness with a shape closer to that when arranged in a vehicle, a wire harness in which three or more branch line portions branch from a trunk line portion and end portions of the branch line portions are respectively provided with connectors, includes: a holding member that holds the branch line portions such that a connector is positioned away from one of the three or more connectors in a first direction that is orthogonal to a terminal insertion direction and a connector is positioned away from that one connector in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, when the trunk line portion is held such that the connectors are suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Shigeto Kato
  • Publication number: 20180275595
    Abstract: Provided is a cleaning blade. The cleaning blade is used for removing remaining toner which remains on a surface of the target member in an electrophotographic apparatus. The cleaning blade is provided with the blade portion having the edge portion which comes into sliding contact with the target member. The edge portion includes: a substrate of the blade portion; an inner layer extending from a surface of the substrate to the inside of the substrate; and an outer layer extending from a surface of the substrate to an outer outside of the substrate. The inner layer contains at least an acrylic resin or a methacrylate resin, and has a thickness of less than 1 ?m. The outer layer contains at least an acrylic resin or a methacrylate resin, and has a thickness of 0.02 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Yasunori Nimura, Kadai Takeyama, Toshihiko Arata, Shimpei Miyagawa, Satoshi Endo
  • Patent number: 10057384
    Abstract: A signal conversion system comprises measuring units, a switcher, a converter, and a host. The converter mutually converts signals transmitted in compliance with a first protocol for communicating with a pre-specified party and signals transmitted in compliance with a second protocol different from the first protocol. The host specifies a given measuring unit among the measuring units communicating in compliance with the first protocol. Then, the switcher switches the transmission channel of signals transmitted in compliance with the first protocol to the transmission channel connecting the measuring unit specified by the host and the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Masahiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9946288
    Abstract: An acquirer acquires information concerning an energy management system for controlling a plurality of apparatuses installed in a dwelling. A display displays, in a first display region, the information acquired by the acquirer, and displays, in a second display region, a layout diagram in which images indicating the apparatuses are arranged at positions corresponding to installation locations of the apparatuses in the dwelling. Upon a determination that the information displayed in the first display region includes information concerning a specific apparatus among the plurality of apparatuses, the display displays with relative emphasis an image indicating the specific apparatus in the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kaori Sato, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Yuki Ogawa, Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama, Satoshi Endo, Masayuki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9928729
    Abstract: A remote operation receiver (111) is configured to communicate with a communication terminal and receive a remote operation from outside a home. A remote operation monitor (112) is configured to monitor a state of communication with the communication terminal at the remote operation receiver (111) during an operation based on the remote operation. A notifier (114) is configured to provide in the home guidance to urge a user to conduct a manual operation on a manual operation receiver (121) when the remote operation monitor (112) detects that the communication with the communication terminal is discontinued. Then, an indoor device (10) is configured to make a shift to normal operation upon reception of the manual operation within a reference time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Komatsu, Satoshi Minezawa, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Endo, Ichiro Maruyama, Hiroaki Ushirosako, Hirotoshi Yano
  • Publication number: 20180082765
    Abstract: In order to provide a technique for obtaining a wire harness with a shape closer to that when arranged in a vehicle, a wire harness in which three or more branch line portions branch from a trunk line portion and end portions of the branch line portions are respectively provided with connectors, includes: a holding member that holds the branch line portions such that a connector is positioned away from one of the three or more connectors in a first direction that is orthogonal to a terminal insertion direction and a connector is positioned away from that one connector in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, when the trunk line portion is held such that the connectors are suspended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi ENDO, Shigeto KATO
  • Publication number: 20180047482
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it easy to bind a plurality of electric wires together. An electric wire bundle includes an electric wire group and a binding portion. The electric wire group includes a bundle portion in which at least a portion of a plurality of electric wires in an extension direction is bundled together. The binding portion formed by supplying a fluid binding portion forming material to an outer circumferential portion of the bundle portion in strip-shape in a form in which the bundle portion can be maintained in a bundled state and curing the binding portion forming material. Such a bundle can be formed by discharging the fluid binding portion forming material from a nozzle to the circumference of a bundle portion of a plurality of electric wires supported by an electric wire supporting portion, and curing the fluid binding portion forming material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi ENDO, Shigeto KATO
  • Publication number: 20170324246
    Abstract: A control apparatus is configured to control a control target device among load devices for which power supply from an electricity storage apparatus is controlled based on total power consumption of the load devices. The control apparatus includes a power monitor and a device controller. The power monitor is configured to acquire a value of the total power consumption of the load devices. The device controller is configured to control the control target device to change the power consumption of the control target device so that the value of the total power consumption changes to a value having a level where the electricity storage apparatus supplies the power to the load devices when the value of the total power consumption acquired by the power monitor is at a level where the power is not supplied from the electricity storage apparatus to the electrical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kaori SATO, Hirotoshi YANO, Masaaki YABE, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Satoshi ENDO, Ichiro MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9764625
    Abstract: A vehicle door manufactured at a low cost and providing a flush feeling of a vehicle, wherein a front door includes a door body, a door sash, and door glass, the door sash including a receiving part receiving the door glass, and a molding adjacent to an outside surface of the vehicle body around a door opening, the molding including an outside wall being a wall part at a vehicle outer side of the receiving part, and an inclined wall inclining inward a vehicle as getting closer to a parting line, wherein an outer surface of the outside wall is positioned more outside a vehicle than the parting line, and a distal edge of the inclined wall is positioned more inside a vehicle than the parting line, or included in a tangent plane to the outer surface of the vehicle body near the parting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Hiromu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170207632
    Abstract: An energy management controller acquires, for each of power lines in a demand area, from devices, measurement data relating to a power value measured by each device. The energy management controller selects, when power values are measured from a single power line, one power value as a power value measured from the power line, based on a priority assigned beforehand to each device. Then, the energy management controller manages power consumed in the demand area using the power value measured from each power line. Furthermore, the energy management controller causes an operation terminal to display, in a predetermined mode, information indicating the power value measured from each power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi ENDO, Hirotoshi YANO, Masaaki YABE, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Ichiro MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170113521
    Abstract: A vehicular door structure includes a door inner panel in which a work aperture is formed, a sealing sheet configured to close the work aperture, a sealing compound application section formed at the door inner panel, and an attachment member configured to hold a wire-shaped member and attach the wire-shaped member to the door inner panel, wherein the attachment member is disposed in the middle of an extension direction of the sealing compound application section, and a sealing compound configured to adhere the sealing sheet to the door inner panel side is continuously applied across the sealing compound application section and the attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Endo, Hiromu Inoue
  • Patent number: 9557359
    Abstract: A voltage/current verifier computes, for each phase, a phase difference between phase voltage and phase current from the phase of phase voltage and the phase of phase current computed for each phase by a phase acquirer, and determines conformity if all of the computed phase differences are within a preset range. A current/current verifier computes phase differences between phase currents from the phase of phase current computed for each phase by the phase acquirer, and determines conformity if all of the computed phase differences are less than 180°. A reporting device reports that a current transformer is incorrectly placed on a power line unless both the voltage/current verifier and the current/current verifier do not determine conformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishihara, Satoshi Endo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Shinsaku Kusube, Masaki Takata, Yoshihiro Taniguchi