Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hirata
Satoshi Hirata 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: 11953206Abstract: Provided is a burner of double tube structure including an outer tube and an inner tube. The inner tube includes a tip-side support portion fixed on the outer tube, a base-side support portion fixed on the outer tube, a main body portion supported by the tip-side support portion, bellows interposed between the main body portion and the base-side support portion, and a bulkhead member attached at a position between the tip-side support portion and the base-side support portion. Between an outer peripheral surface of the bulkhead member and an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube, a second gap smaller than a first gap between an outermost peripheral surface of the bellows and the inner peripheral surface of the outer tube is interposed.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Karishuku, Satoshi Dodo, Yoshitaka Hirata, Tomohiro Asai, Shohei Yoshida, Yasuhiro Akiyama
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Patent number: 11904411Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a thin glass resin laminate piece, which includes cutting a thin glass resin laminate through laser processing, and by which a thin glass resin laminate piece capable of preventing the occurrence of air bubbles when bonded to an adherend can be obtained. The method of producing a thin glass resin laminate piece of the present invention includes a step of subjecting a thin glass resin laminate including a thin glass, a resin layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the stated order to laser processing to cut the laminate, wherein a thickness (?m) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a creep characteristic (?m/Hr) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer have a relationship of (thickness (?m))2×creep characteristic (?m/Hr)?50×103 (?m2·?m/Hr).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kishi, Takeshi Murashige, Satoshi Hirata
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Publication number: 20230394836Abstract: A server device (100) that contributes to resolving congestion in an event venue or the like is provided. The server device (100) includes a calculation unit (101) and an instruction unit (102). The calculation unit (101) calculates a degree of congestion of a monitored facility which is a facility to be monitored for a congestion state. The instruction unit (102) determines, based on the degree of congestion of the monitored facility, whether or not the monitored facility is congested. When the monitored facility is congested, the instruction unit (102) instructs a staff member in a venue including the monitored facility to resolve the congestion of the congested monitored facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi HIRATA, Hajime Yamashita, Kenta Aino
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Publication number: 20230394475Abstract: In the present disclosure, a payment assistance apparatus (1) includes: an authentication control unit (11) that controls biometric authentication, based on a captured image of a predetermined user being captured at a payment place; a decision unit (12) that decides display information, based on qualification information about service application associated with biometric information about the user who succeeds in the biometric authentication, when the biometric authentication succeeds; and a display control unit (13) that displays the decided display information in a position associated with the user in the captured image being displayed on a display device installed at the payment place.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi HIRATA, Hajime Yamashita, Kenta Aino, Yuto Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230394125Abstract: Provided is a server device capable of recognizing the visit of a specific customer. A server device (100) includes an acquisition unit (101), a determination unit (102), and a notification unit (103). The acquisition unit (101) acquires, from a reception terminal installed in an event venue, ticket information of a ticket presented by a visitor for whom visitor registration is to be performed in the reception terminal. The determination unit (102) determines, based on the ticket information, whether or not the visitor matches a first person. When the visitor matches the first person, the notification unit (103) notifies a second person that the first person has visited the event venue.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi HIRATA, Hajime Yamashita, Kenta Aino, Yuto Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230385389Abstract: An information processing device (1) includes: a first biometric information acquisition unit (11) that acquires biometric information about a user in a facility in which a plurality of seats are disposed; a first authentication control unit (12) that controls first biometric authentication of the acquired biometric information against registered biometric information about a plurality of persons; a determination unit (13) that determines, based on seat information in which a seat position of each person is associated with the registered biometric information, a seat position of the user when the first biometric authentication succeeds; a decision unit (14) that decides assistance information for assisting in behavior at a time of entry or at a time of exit of the user, based on the seat position; and an output unit (15) that outputs the assistance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi Hirata, Hajime Yamashita, Kenta Aino, Yuto Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230256727Abstract: A method is disclosed for dividing a composite material 10 including a brittle material layer 1 and a resin layer 2 that are laminated together, the method includes: a resin removing step of applying laser light L1 oscillated from a CO2 laser light source 20 to the resin layer along a planned division line DL of the composite material, so that a processed groove 24 is formed along the planned division line; and a brittle material removing step of applying, after the resin removing step, laser light L2 oscillated from an ultrashort pulsed laser light source 30 to the brittle material layer along the planned division line, so that processed marks 11 are formed along the planned division line. The processed marks formed in the brittle material removing step open on the resin layer side and do not penetrate through the brittle material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Kanno, Satoshi Hirata, Kota Nakai, Takeshi Murashige, Junichi Inagaki
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Publication number: 20230249658Abstract: An electric actuator includes an input member that is rotationally driven by the electric motor and includes a first rotation stop part on an inner periphery, an output member that includes a second rotation stop part engageable with the first rotation stop part, and a first screw part on an outer periphery, and a linear motion member that includes a second screw part engageable with the first screw part. Both the screw mechanism and the rotation-stop mechanism are formed on the outer periphery of the output member. Therefore, in the electric actuator, the radial and axial dimensions are shortened.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki WAZAKI, Satoshi HIRATA
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Publication number: 20230134864Abstract: A management method, a computer performs an acquisition of video data from a monitoring terminal, an acquisition of a first event and a detection time of the first event from the video data; and a display of the detection time of the first event and an icon corresponding to a type of the first event, in a form according to the importance of the first event, on a display devise.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi HIRATA, Hajime Yamahita, Genki Yamamoto, Masafumi Shibata, Dai Hashimoto, Takahiro Kimoto, Youhei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230123273Abstract: A management device that includes an instruction unit that acquires metadata of video data of an area to be monitored generated by a monitoring terminal that detects an event from the video data, outputs, in response to an acquisition of metadata including information about the event, an analysis instruction for the video data of the area to be monitored imaged in a time zone including a time of detection of the event to a video analysis device that detects the event from the video data, and acquires an analysis result including information about the event detected from the video data by an analysis by the video analysis device, and an estimation unit that estimates a case event that has occurred in the area to be monitored based on the event detected by the monitoring terminal and the event detected by the video analysis device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Hirata, Hajime Yamashita, Genki Yamamoto, Masafumi Shibata, Dai Hashimoto, Takahiro Kimoto, Youhei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230114160Abstract: The present invention reduces the amount of processing related to the analysis of video data. A detection time determination unit (11) determines a detection time for detecting a second event before or after a first event in time series from the video data on the basis of a time when the first event is detected from the video data, and an event detection unit (12) detects the second event from the video data in the detection time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi HIRATA, Hajime Yamashita, Genki Yamamoto, Masafumi Shibata, Dai Hashimoto, Takahiro Kimoto, Youhei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230101369Abstract: An appropriate response to an event is recommended to a monitoring person. An event detection unit (12) detects an event based on video data, and an alert unit (13) issues a first alert when a first event is detected, and issues a second alert that is distinguished from the first alert when a second event relating to the first event is further detected in addition to the first event.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Satoshi HIRATA, Hajime Yamashita, Genki Yamamoto, Masafumi Shibata, Dai Hashimoto, Takahiro Kimoto, Youhei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230043653Abstract: An inorganic fiber molded body includes an alumina fiber, an inorganic porous filler, and a colloidal silica, in which a ratio of crystalline minerals in the alumina fiber is 30% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less, the inorganic porous filler contains CaO·6Al2O3 in which a particle diameter D95, which has a cumulative value of 95% in a volume frequency particle size distribution, is 300 ?m or less, and in 100% by mass of the inorganic fiber molded body, a content of the alumina fiber is 15% by mass or more and 70% by mass or less, a content of the inorganic porous filler is 20% by mass or more and 79% by mass or less, and a content of the colloidal silica is 2% by mass or more and 8% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsunori KOYAMA, Mizuharu MATSUYOSHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Takaaki TANAKA, Kouji KOUNO
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Publication number: 20220315472Abstract: A method is disclosed for dividing a composite material in which a brittle material layer and a resin layer are laminated, including: a resin removing step of irradiating the resin layer with a laser beam oscillated from a first laser source along a scheduled dividing line of the composite material to form a processing groove along the scheduled dividing line; a brittle material removing step of irradiating the brittle material layer with a laser beam oscillated from an ultrashort pulsed laser source along the scheduled dividing line to form a processing mark along the scheduled dividing line; and a brittle material layer dividing step of generating thermal stress in the brittle material layer by irradiating the brittle material layer with a laser beam oscillated from a second laser source from the opposite side to the resin layer to thereby divide the brittle material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Kanno, Satoshi Hirata, Kota Nakai, Naoyuki Matsuo
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Patent number: 11325438Abstract: A suspension is provided which can not only generate a damping force between sprung mass and unsprung mass but also steer a wheel. A suspension includes: a shaft coupled to sprung mass of a vehicle, the shaft having a screw groove and a spline groove formed thereon; a ball screw nut assembled to the shaft via a ball; a ball spline nut assembled to the shaft via a ball; a ball screw-specific motor connected to the ball screw nut; a ball spline-specific motor connected to the ball spline nut; and a case coupled to unsprung mass of the vehicle, the case being configured to hold the ball screw-specific motor and the ball spline-specific motor. The ball spline-specific motor rotates the ball spline nut and the shaft relative to the case.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Sakuyama, Sho Taniguchi, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Satoshi Hirata, Hiroshi Kaneshige, Sho Iwashiro
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Publication number: 20220080530Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a thin glass resin laminate piece, which includes cutting a thin glass resin laminate through laser processing, and by which a thin glass resin laminate piece capable of preventing the occurrence of air bubbles when bonded to an adherend can be obtained. The method of producing a thin glass resin laminate piece of the present invention includes a step of subjecting a thin glass resin laminate including a thin glass, a resin layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the stated order to laser processing to cut the laminate, wherein a thickness (?m) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a creep characteristic (?m/Hr) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer have a relationship of (thickness (?m))2×creep characteristic (?m/Hr)?50×103 (?m2·?m/Hr).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kishi, Takeshi Murashige, Satoshi Hirata
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Publication number: 20210206221Abstract: A suspension is provided which can not only generate a damping force between sprung mass and unsprung mass but also steer a wheel. A suspension includes: a shaft coupled to sprung mass of a vehicle, the shaft having a screw groove and a spline groove formed thereon; a ball screw nut assembled to the shaft via a ball; a ball spline nut assembled to the shaft via a ball; a ball screw-specific motor connected to the ball screw nut; a ball spline-specific motor connected to the ball spline nut; and a case coupled to unsprung mass of the vehicle, the case being configured to hold the ball screw-specific motor and the ball spline-specific motor. The ball spline-specific motor rotates the ball spline nut and the shaft relative to the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Sakuyama, Sho Taniguchi, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Satoshi Hirata, Hiroshi Kaneshige, Sho Iwashiro
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Patent number: 10391985Abstract: An electric brake control apparatus includes: a clamping force acquisition unit configured to acquire a clamping force generated by moving a piston toward a pad through rotation of a motor; a lower-limit clamping force acquisition unit configured to acquire a minimum value of the clamping force required to maintain a stopped state of the rotor; an upper-limit clamping force acquisition unit configured to acquire a maximum value of the clamping force to move the piston away from the pad through a power of a power supply while maintaining the stopped state of the rotor, based on a state of a power supply; and a clamping force control unit configured to control the motor such that the clamping force is confined between the minimum value and the maximum value.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryutaro Misumi, Naoki Yabusaki, Shinichiro Yukoku, Satoshi Hirata
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Patent number: 10086556Abstract: Provided is a method capable of producing a retardation film having an elongated shape and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency while precisely controlling the direction of the slow axis and the variation of the direction. The method of producing a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding the left and right end portions of a film with left and right variable pitch-type clips configured to have clip pitches changing in a longitudinal direction, respectively; preheating the film; obliquely stretching the film; and releasing the clips holding the film.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shimizu, Makoto Nakaichi, Ryuuichi Kira, Satoshi Hirata
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Publication number: 20180148022Abstract: An electric brake control apparatus includes: a clamping force acquisition unit configured to acquire a clamping force generated by moving a piston toward a pad through rotation of a motor; a lower-limit clamping force acquisition unit configured to acquire a minimum value of the clamping force required to maintain a stopped state of the rotor; an upper-limit clamping force acquisition unit configured to acquire a maximum value of the clamping force to move the piston away from the pad through a power of a power supply while maintaining the stopped state of the rotor, based on a state of a power supply; and a clamping force control unit configured to control the motor such that the clamping force is confined between the minimum value and the maximum value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryutaro MISUMI, Naoki YABUSAKI, Shinichiro YUKOKU, Satoshi HIRATA