Patents by Inventor Satoshi Sekiguchi
Satoshi Sekiguchi 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: 11972990Abstract: A unit includes a wiring board having a first face having a mounting portion on which an electronic device is mounted, a second face opposite to the first face, and end faces continuous with the first face and the second face, a resin member provided to cover the end faces and to have protrusions protruding upward from the end faces to face each other across a space above the mounting portion, and an insulating film covering the second face, wherein at least a part of an edge of the insulating film is provided away from an end of the second face on the end face side.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Nozu, Yu Aoki, Hirotaka Sekiguchi, Koji Sato, Koji Tsuduki
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Publication number: 20240078831Abstract: To determine the state of a subject person with a simple structure, an image determining device includes: an imaging unit that captures an image from a first direction, the image including the subject person; a first detector that detects size information from the image, the size information being about the subject person in the first direction; a second detector that detects position-related information, the position-related information being different from the information detected by the first detector; and a determining unit that determines the state of the subject person, based on a result of the detection performed by the first detector and a result of the detection performed by the second detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Masahiro NEI, Isao TOTSUKA, Tomoyuki MATSUYAMA, Masamitsu YANAGIHARA, Satoshi HAGIWARA, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240052940Abstract: A valve device includes: a housing H, defining an upstream side passage 41a and a downstream side passage 22a through which a fluid passes, a valve accommodation chamber h1 interposed between the upstream side passage and the downstream side passage, and an opening part 41b located at a downstream end of the upstream side passage; and a cantilevered valve body 30, disposed in the valve accommodation chamber, and having a support part 32 that is elastically deformable and cantilevered and, on a free end side of the support part, a valve part 31 that is plate-shaped and opening and closing the opening part. In the valve device, the downstream side passage 22a is formed to expand in a direction along a plane 31a, 31b of the valve part in a state in which the valve part 31 is fully opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi SEKIGUCHI, Shoichi ISHIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230287843Abstract: In the present invention, a clogging rate is calculated using a first flow rate function when the degree of clogging of the throttle valve is in the reference state and a second flow rate function estimated based on the intake air volume. For each predetermined period, sample points, which are combinations of the second flow rate function and throttle valve position, are obtained, and the learning points are calculated by averaging a plurality of sample points for each predetermined position range. Based on the plurality of learning points, coefficients a to c of the approximate function of the second flow rate function characteristic are calculated by the least-squares method, and the clogging rate is calculated based on the second flow rate function characteristic and the first flow rate function approximated by the approximate function using the coefficients a to c.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Ken MATSUI, Satoshi SEKIGUCHI, Takahiro OHASHI, Jyo ISHIMASA
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Patent number: 11732665Abstract: In the present invention, a clogging rate is calculated using a first flow rate function when the degree of clogging of the throttle valve is in the reference state and a second flow rate function estimated based on the intake air volume. For each predetermined period, sample points, which are combinations of the second flow rate function and throttle valve position, are obtained, and the learning points are calculated by averaging a plurality of sample points for each predetermined position range. Based on the plurality of learning points, coefficients a to c of the approximate function of the second flow rate function characteristic are calculated by the least-squares method, and the clogging rate is calculated based on the second flow rate function characteristic and the first flow rate function approximated by the approximate function using the coefficients a to c.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Matsui, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Takahiro Ohashi, Jyo Ishimasa
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Patent number: 11522371Abstract: A power-supply control device includes a processor that performs a battery abnormality recognizing process and a control process. In the control process, the processor performs a first power-supply control operation of enabling supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a first load by a first connection circuit and supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a second load by a second connection circuit and, when an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process, performs a second power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into a disconnected state to stop the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and maintain the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Sekiguchi, Takeshi Itagaki, Kazutaka Yoshimura, Kosuke Murata, Hironori Deno, Yuto Fukusho
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Patent number: 11458861Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device that prevents a specific function of a traveling vehicle from being not able to operate due to a failure of a battery. The vehicle control device includes: a control section configured to execute predetermined function control for a vehicle system; a discharge performance determination section configured to determine whether or not a battery is able to discharge a predetermined amount of current in accordance with a predetermined function before the predetermined function control is started; and an execution availability determination section configured to permit the control section to execute the predetermined function when it is determined that the predetermined amount of current is able to be discharged and inhibit the control section from executing the predetermined function when it is determined that the predetermined amount of current is not able to be discharged.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hayahito Ukai, Takehiro Horigome, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Hironori Deno, Shota Kawanaka
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Publication number: 20210288508Abstract: A power-supply control device includes a processor that performs a battery abnormality recognizing process and a control process. In the control process, the processor performs a first power-supply control operation of enabling supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a first load by a first connection circuit and supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a second load by a second connection circuit and, when an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process, performs a second power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into a disconnected state to stop the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and maintain the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Satoshi Sekiguchi, Takeshi Itagaki, Kazutaka Yoshimura, Kosuke Murata, Hironori Deno, Yuto Fukusho
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Publication number: 20200298727Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device that prevents a specific function of a traveling vehicle from being not able to operate due to a failure of a battery. The vehicle control device includes: a control section configured to execute predetermined function control for a vehicle system; a discharge performance determination section configured to determine whether or not a battery is able to discharge a predetermined amount of current in accordance with a predetermined function before the predetermined function control is started; and an execution availability determination section configured to permit the control section to execute the predetermined function when it is determined that the predetermined amount of current is able to be discharged and inhibit the control section from executing the predetermined function when it is determined that the predetermined amount of current is not able to be discharged.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Hayahito Ukai, Takehiro Horigome, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Hironori Deno, Shota Kawanaka
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Patent number: 9856847Abstract: A vehicle power source device includes a first group that includes a first battery and a first load group which is connected with the first battery, a second group that includes a second battery or includes the second battery and a second load group which is connected with the second battery, a third group that includes a starting device which starts an internal combustion engine and a capacitor, a first switch that is provided between the first group and the second group, a second switch that is provided between the second group and the third group, a third switch that is provided between the first group and the third group, and a control unit that performs control to turn the first switch off, the second switch off, and the third switch on in a case where the internal combustion engine is started.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 9688224Abstract: A vehicle electric power supply apparatus includes first and second power sources connected in parallel to each other; a DC-DC converter connected between the first and second power sources; a switch connected in parallel to the DC-DC converter and connected between the first and second power sources; an opening and closing unit that is operable to open and close the switch; and a control unit that controls the DC-DC converter and the opening and closing unit. When an internal combustion engine is stopped, the control unit sets the switch to be OFF using the opening and closing unit, and the control unit causes the second power source to be discharged and the first power source to be charged until the output voltage of the second power source reaches a first voltage by electric power supply from the second power source to the first power source via the DC-DC converter.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Takushi Inoue
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Publication number: 20170030316Abstract: A vehicle power source device includes a first group that includes a first battery and a first load group which is connected with the first battery, a second group that includes a second battery or includes the second battery and a second load group which is connected with the second battery, a third group that includes a starting device which starts an internal combustion engine and a capacitor, a first switch that is provided between the first group and the second group, a second switch that is provided between the second group and the third group, a third switch that is provided between the first group and the third group, and a control unit that performs control to turn the first switch off, the second switch off, and the third switch on in a case where the internal combustion engine is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 9458813Abstract: A control unit of a vehicle electric power supply apparatus controls an opening and closing unit to set a switch to an OFF state and a voltage detection unit to detect an output voltage of a first power source and an output voltage of a second power source when a second electric load is to be driven, and the control unit inhibits driving of the second electric load when the absolute value of the difference between the output voltage of the first power source and the output voltage of the second power source detected by the voltage detection unit is a predetermined first threshold value or less over a predetermined length of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 9447167Abstract: Disclosed is a novel means that enables mass production of highly safe fibrinogen at low cost. The transgenic silkworm of the present invention expresses the fibrinogen subunit A?, B? and ? chains in the silk gland cells and produces fibrinogen having coagulation activity in the cocoon filament. Preferably, the transgenic silkworm expresses the subunits in the middle silk gland cells and produces fibrinogen in the sericin layer of the cocoon filament. By recovering fibrinogen from the cocoon of the transgenic silkworm of the present invention, highly safe fibrinogen can be mass-produced at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: IMMUNO-BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES CO., LTDInventors: Satoshi Sekiguchi, Manabu Takahisa, Masahiro Tomita
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Patent number: 9188099Abstract: A starter includes an output shaft which rotates by a rotary force applied from the motor unit, a housing in which an end of the output shaft is rotatably supported, and an electromagnetic device configured to apply/shut off current to the motor unit, and biases a suppressing force toward the ring gear to the pinion gear through a clutch mechanism, wherein a load receiving member which abuts one end of the output shaft to receive an axial load generated from the output shaft is installed in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignees: MITSUBA CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya, Shigehiro Kanbe, Masataka Odagiri, Mitsuhiro Kogure, Hiroki Yamada, Masahiro Nakamura, Seiji Shimada, Yusuke Fukada, Satoshi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 9176925Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a game program, the game program causing a computer to execute a process, including: an event occurrence process to cause occurrence of an event for allowing a player to obtain an item; an occurrence count acquisition process to acquire the number of times the event has occurred; a number determination process to determine the number of other players different from the player based on the number of times the event has occurred; and a consecutive event occurrence process to cause an event for allowing players to obtain an item to occur in a consecutive manner after the event for allowing the player to obtain the item, the number of the players being the determined number or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: DeNa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Patent number: 9033804Abstract: A game processing server apparatus, to which plural terminal devices each being operated by a player are connected via a network, configured to provide a game service to the plural terminal devices, includes a player management unit which manages an association of a target player with other of the plural players; and an event management unit which controls a generation of an event for the target player based on a winning probability parameter of the target player indicating a probability of the target player winning the game determined based on player information of the target player and the players associated with the target player.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Takehiro Kusano, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Wataru Takahashi, Yuuki Abe, Minehiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20150008731Abstract: A vehicle electric power supply apparatus includes first and second power sources connected in parallel to each other; a DC-DC converter connected between the first and second power sources; a switch connected in parallel to the DC-DC converter and connected between the first and second power sources; an opening and closing unit that is operable to open and close the switch; and a control unit that controls the DC-DC converter and the opening and closing unit. When an internal combustion engine is stopped, the control unit sets the switch to be OFF using the opening and closing unit, and the control unit causes the second power source to be discharged and the first power source to be charged until the output voltage of the second power source reaches a first voltage by electric power supply from the second power source to the first power source via the DC-DC converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Takushi Inoue
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Publication number: 20150001857Abstract: A control unit of a vehicle electric power supply apparatus controls an opening and closing unit to set a switch to an OFF state and a voltage detection unit to detect an output voltage of a first power source and an output voltage of a second power source when a second electric load is to be driven, and the control unit inhibits driving of the second electric load when the absolute value of the difference between the output voltage of the first power source and the output voltage of the second power source detected by the voltage detection unit is a predetermined first threshold value or less over a predetermined length of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventor: Satoshi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 8753211Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a game system that enables a player to easily select an item to be used by a player character. The game system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a selection unit configured to select, from player game contents owned by a player, one or more game contents to be used by a player character of the player in a battle with an opponent character, based at least on an effective value calculated by the effective value calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzo Takagi, Yuuki Abe, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Takehiro Kusano