Patents by Inventor Satoshi Murata

Satoshi Murata 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: 20170176203
    Abstract: There is provided a traffic information output system capable of reducing or eliminating the burden on a user when the searched route and the traffic information on the route are outputted. The traffic information output system comprises a moving cost prediction unit 213 which predicts a moving cost of the route according to a reference time point indicated in a change pattern, and a moving cost output control unit 214 which outputs, to the output device, the prediction moving cost and change time point interfaces P27 and P28 for outputting a prediction moving cost which is a moving cost predicted according to a post-change reference time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Satoshi MURATA
  • Patent number: 9595693
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. The pixels have a reflection layer, an optical distance adjusting layer, a pixel electrode, an insulating film, a light-emitting functional layer, and an opposing electrode that are sequentially layered in a Z direction. The insulating film has an opening that overlaps part of the pixel electrode. The reflection layer is disposed across the plurality of pixels, and has a high reflectance portion (where a first underlayer film and a reflection film are layered) and a low reflectance portion (where a second underlayer film and the reflection film are layered). The high reflectance portion (where the first underlayer film and the reflection film are layered) is disposed so as to overlap at least part of the opening when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Murata
  • Publication number: 20160322440
    Abstract: A display region E that includes an element isolation region 88 having a display region trench density D1, and in which a pixel circuit 110 including a transistor is arranged; a drive circuit region 105 that includes a region in which a drive circuit element isolation portion having a drive circuit region trench density D2 is provided, and in which drive circuits 101 and 102 that supply signals for driving the pixel circuit 110 are arranged; and a peripheral region 106 that includes region in which a peripheral element isolation portion having a peripheral region trench density D3 is provided, and is arranged at least between the display region E and the drive circuit region 105. The display region trench density D1 is different from the drive circuit region trench density D2, and the display region trench density D1 is equal to the peripheral region trench density D3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi MURATA
  • Patent number: 9383437
    Abstract: A reception device (100) includes: AGC circuits (103) to generate electric power information individually indicating signal strengths of respective received signals generated from a respective plurality of radio waves received at a plurality of places; stationary-state detection circuits (105) to calculate individually the amounts of time domain fluctuation in the respective signal strengths indicated by the electric power information generated by the AGC circuits (103), and to detect individually, on the basis of the respective calculated amounts of fluctuation, whether the reception device (100) is stationary or not; and a self-stationary determination circuit (106) to determine, on the basis of a plurality of detection results from the stationary-state detection circuits (105), whether the reception device (100) is stationary or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Asahina, Daisuke Shimbo, Satoshi Murata
  • Patent number: 9285238
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation system capable of matching map information used by a navigation apparatus and a navigation server with an appropriate frequency and at an appropriate timing. When there is differential information between the navigation map information and the support map information, index information for identifying the differential information is transmitted from the navigation server to the navigation apparatus and the navigation apparatus outputs preliminary information indicating a brief summary of the differential information generated according to the index information. When a request signal based on a request operation by a user in the navigation apparatus is transmitted from the navigation apparatus to the navigation server, the differential information is transmitted form the navigation server to the navigation apparatus, so that the navigation map information is updated in accordance with the differential information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadafumi Nogawa, Satoshi Murata
  • Publication number: 20160011306
    Abstract: A reception device (100) includes: AGC circuits (103) to generate electric power information individually indicating signal strengths of respective received signals generated from a respective plurality of radio waves received at a plurality of places; stationary-state detection circuits (105) to calculate individually the amounts of time domain fluctuation in the respective signal strengths indicated by the electric power information generated by the AGC circuits (103), and to detect individually, on the basis of the respective calculated amounts of fluctuation, whether the reception device (100) is stationary or not; and a self-stationary determination circuit (106) to determine, on the basis of a plurality of detection results from the stationary-state detection circuits (105), whether the reception device (100) is stationary or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu ASAHINA, Daisuke SHIMBO, Satoshi MURATA
  • Publication number: 20150301415
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) includes: a first substrate (101); and a second substrate (102), the first substrate and the second substrate being disposed in opposition to one another, wherein, on an opposing surface between the first substrate (101) and the second substrate (102), a pixel electrode (157), a common electrode (155), a shift register (130), a clock signal line (131, 132), and a power supply line (133) are provided, at the first substrate (101), a shield electrode (a first shield electrode part (135) and a second shield electrode part (136)) is provided above the shift register (130) and the power supply line (133), and the shield electrode is not provided above the clock signal line (131, 132).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hironobu SAWADA, Yuhko HISADA, Satoshi MURATA, Takehito MORI, Ryusuke ASAI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9153796
    Abstract: The fabrication method for an organic EL device according to the invention includes: forming a third insulating layer on a first insulating layer; removing the third insulating layer in a first pixel region by etching the third insulating layer; forming a second insulating layer that has different thicknesses in a first pixel and a second pixel and has a flat first surface by forming a precursor insulating layer to continuously cover a first reflection film and a second reflection film and then planarizing an upper surface of the precursor insulating layer; and forming a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode on the first surface of the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer is slower in the rate at which the layer is removed by etching than the third insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisakatsu Sato, Satoshi Murata
  • Patent number: 9112341
    Abstract: A cable fixing member is provided including a pair of bracket members that hold a cable therebetween and a fitting part that fits into the pair of bracket members. The fitting part includes a convex portion having an arc-shaped cross sectional face formed in one bracket member of the pair of bracket members; and a concave portion formed in the other bracket of the pair of bracket members and having an arc-shaped cross sectional face with which the convex portion is fitted, wherein the pair of bracket members are rotatably formed with the fitting part as a rotation center, so that facing surfaces of the pair of bracket members that hold the cable can be opened and closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Eshima, Yoji Kobayashi, Hideki Horikoshi, Haruhiko Sugai, Satoshi Murata
  • Publication number: 20150228930
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. The pixels have a reflection layer, an optical distance adjusting layer, a pixel electrode, an insulating film, a light-emitting functional layer, and an opposing electrode that are sequentially layered in a Z direction. The insulating film has an opening that overlaps part of the pixel electrode. The reflection layer is disposed across the plurality of pixels, and has a high reflectance portion (where a first underlayer film and a reflection film are layered) and a low reflectance portion (where a second underlayer film and the reflection film are layered). The high reflectance portion (where the first underlayer film and the reflection film are layered) is disposed so as to overlap at least part of the opening when viewed from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventor: Satoshi MURATA
  • Patent number: 9073361
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a first conveyor for conveying a recording medium in a first direction to a recording position; a second conveyor disposed downstream of the recording position; a third conveyor for returning the recording medium to the first conveyor; and a dryer disposed at a drying position located downstream of the recording position in the first direction. A controller controls: image recording on a first surface of the recording medium opposite its second surface (first processing); the second conveyor to convey the recorded recording medium in the first direction until its upstream edge portion reaches a downstream side of the drying position in the first direction (second processing); the second conveyor to convey the recording medium in a second direction (third processing); and image recording on the second surface (fourth processing). The dryer dries the recording medium in the second processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Murata, Shigeki Kato
  • Publication number: 20150118774
    Abstract: The fabrication method for an organic EL device according to the invention includes: forming a third insulating layer on a first insulating layer; removing the third insulating layer in a first pixel region by etching the third insulating layer; forming a second insulating layer that has different thicknesses in a first pixel and a second pixel and has a flat first surface by forming a precursor insulating layer to continuously cover a first reflection film and a second reflection film and then planarizing an upper surface of the precursor insulating layer; and forming a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode on the first surface of the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer is slower in the rate at which the layer is removed by etching than the third insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Hisakatsu SATO, Satoshi MURATA
  • Patent number: 8956898
    Abstract: The fabrication method for an organic EL device according to the invention includes: forming a third insulating layer on a first insulating layer; removing the third insulating layer in a first pixel region by etching the third insulating layer; forming a second insulating layer that has different thicknesses in a first pixel and a second pixel and has a flat first surface by forming a precursor insulating layer to continuously cover a first reflection film and a second reflection film and then planarizing an upper surface of the precursor insulating layer; and forming a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode on the first surface of the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer is slower in the rate at which the layer is removed by etching than the third insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisakatsu Sato, Satoshi Murata
  • Publication number: 20140354728
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a first conveyor for conveying a recording medium in a first direction to a recording position; a second conveyor disposed downstream of the recording position; a third conveyor for returning the recording medium to the first conveyor; and a dryer disposed at a drying position located downstream of the recording position in the first direction. A controller controls: image recording on a first surface of the recording medium opposite its second surface (first processing); the second conveyor to convey the recorded recording medium in the first direction until its upstream edge portion reaches a downstream side of the drying position in the first direction (second processing); the second conveyor to convey the recording medium in a second direction (third processing); and image recording on the second surface (fourth processing). The dryer dries the recording medium in the second processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi MURATA, Shigeki KATO
  • Publication number: 20140295597
    Abstract: The fabrication method for an organic EL device according to the invention includes: forming a third insulating layer on a first insulating layer; removing the third insulating layer in a first pixel region by etching the third insulating layer; forming a second insulating layer that has different thicknesses in a first pixel and a second pixel and has a flat first surface by forming a precursor insulating layer to continuously cover a first reflection film and a second reflection film and then planarizing an upper surface of the precursor insulating layer; and forming a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode on the first surface of the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer is slower in the rate at which the layer is removed by etching than the third insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisakatsu SATO, Satoshi MURATA
  • Patent number: 8803378
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine (100) is driven by a three-phase AC current and is provided with a stator core (13), a molded resin (12) for covering a coil wound on the stator core, a rotor core (40), a shaft (11) provided to the rotor core (40), a terminal base (20) provided to a coil end section, and a case (30) for covering the rotating electrical machine (100). Power cables extending from the terminal base (20) are led out of the case (30) through a case terminal box (31). A temperature sensor (22) is affixed in a hole in the molded resin (12) by the terminal base (20) and measures the temperature in the vicinity of a heat producing source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoka Sonohara, Hiroaki Urano, Yasuji Taketsuna, Satoshi Murata, Yasuaki Tahara, Kenji Ishida
  • Patent number: 8647001
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a record head which forms an image on a recording medium; a conveyance mechanism which has an outer circumferential surface opposing the record head and conveys the recording medium placed on the outer circumferential surface; and a media attracting unit which causes the recording medium to be attracted onto the outer circumferential surface and includes a first electrode which is provided to oppose an inner circumferential surface of the conveyance belt which surface is opposite to the outer circumferential surface of the conveyance belt, a second electrode which opposes the outer circumferential surface of the conveyance belt and is detached from the outer circumferential surface, and a voltage supply unit which applies a voltage across the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Murata, Hisashi Igi, Kenichi Sato
  • Patent number: 8616314
    Abstract: A wheel driving apparatus is provided. The wheel driving apparatus includes a cylindrical inner housing supported by a vehicle body via a suspension, a wheel supported by the cylindrical inner housing so that the wheel is rotatable relative to the cylindrical inner housing, a motor having a stator attached to the cylindrical inner housing and a rotor attached to the wheel. The wheel includes a main body portion and an outside portion positioned on an outer side of the vehicle body, and the rotor is attached to the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Murata
  • Patent number: 8585039
    Abstract: A recording apparatus including: a roller disposed at a set position and configured to convey a recording medium; a shaft member configured to support the roller located at the set position, wherein the roller is disengageable from the shaft member by moving in a direction toward one of opposite ends of the shaft member; a roller moving mechanism configured to move the roller in the direction toward the one end by applying a force to the roller in the direction toward the one end; and a movement inhibiting and allowing member configured to: inhibit the roller from moving in the direction toward the one end by being positioned at a first position at which the roller is positioned where the roller has been moved in the direction toward the one end; and allow the roller to move in the direction toward the one end by moving from the first position to a second position different from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Murata
  • Patent number: 8556380
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyer, a liquid discharge head, and a supporter. The conveyer is configured to convey a recording medium in a conveying direction parallel to a reference line. The liquid discharge head includes a discharge surface that includes discharge portions and a non-discharge portion. The non-discharge portion is disposed between two adjoining discharge portions and extends to converge on the reference line from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the conveying direction. The supporter includes a projection that includes a top portion facing the non-discharge portion and extending along the non-discharge portion. The top portion is configured to support the recording medium. The top portion is sloped, such that a distance between the top portion and the discharge surface increases from the upstream side toward the downstream side in the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Murata