Patents by Inventor Satoshi Sugimoto

Satoshi Sugimoto 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: 11605219
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a character string detection unit configured to detect a character string of a specific item in a first document image based on a feature amount of the displayed first document image among feature amounts which are recorded in advance based on a result of learning using a plurality of document images and indicate features of the character string of the item for each kind of document image and each specific item; and an output unit configured to output information regarding a correspondence relation indicating the same specific item between the first document image and a second document image displayed to correspond to the first document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakatani, Katsuhiko Kondoh, Satoshi Segawa, Michiru Sugimoto, Yasushi Hidaka, Junya Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11598859
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus capable of determining a distance to an object based on at least first reflected light provided by a reflection of first pulsed light on the object and second reflected light provided by a reflection of a second pulsed light on the object has an input terminal to receive an electrical signal of intensity of reception light, and processing circuitry to specify, based on the electrical signal, a first duration from when the first pulsed light is emitted until when the first reflected light is received within a first measurement range, and determine, based on the first duration, a second measurement range of the second reflected light, specify, a second duration from when the second pulsed light is emitted until when the second reflected light is received within the second measurement range, and determine the distance from the electronic apparatus to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tuan Thanh Ta, Hidenori Okuni, Satoshi Kondo, Akihide Sai, Toshiki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11587717
    Abstract: An inductor element includes a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion, and a magnetic core. The first conductive portion includes a first round-about portion, a first mount portion, and a second mount portion. The second conductive portion includes a second round-about portion, a third mount portion, and a fourth mount portion. The magnetic core houses at least a part of the first and second conductive portions so that each mount surface of the first to fourth mount portions is exposed from one side of the magnetic core. The first and second conductive portions are arranged so that the first and second directions are substantially parallel and opposite to each other. The first and third mount portions are at least partially overlapped with each other in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Satoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20230043291
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material having excellent durability. [Solution] A building material has a convex part formed on a surface thereof, the convex part including a first lateral surface part and a second lateral surface part corresponding to the first lateral surface part. The building material is formed from a mixture containing a hydraulic material, an admixture, and a plant-based reinforcing material, and the plant-based reinforcing material at least in the convex part is distributed in the mixture with the hydraulic material and the admixture attached to the plant-based reinforcing material. A distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the first lateral surface part and a distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the second lateral surface part are substantially the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi IKEDA, Kazuhisa YOSHIDA, Hidenori NISHIOKA, Akihiro SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11549460
    Abstract: There is provided a water cooled engine including a cylinder head with minimized thermal strain. A head water jacket includes an inter-exhaust-port-wall water channel between a first exhaust entrance port wall and a second exhaust entrance port wall. A cylinder head includes a cooling water injection passage provided at a bottom wall of the cylinder head. The cooling water injection passage is positioned on the exhaust end side, and includes a passage entrance provided on the exhaust end side, and a passage exit directed toward the inter-exhaust-port-wall water channel. An exhaust port wall includes a heat dissipation fin extending from a first exhaust entrance port wall toward an exhaust end. The space between the heat dissipation fin and a second exhaust entrance port wall forms a water channel entrance of the inter-exhaust-port-wall water channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugimoto, Yusuke Komemushi, Naoki Wada
  • Patent number: 11544937
    Abstract: A control device includes a specifying unit that specifies one of a plurality of detection objects on the basis of a state of an industrial vehicle when the plurality of detection objects are detected around the industrial vehicle, and a control unit that causes a notification to be performed for the one detection object specified by the specifying unit in an aspect different from those of other detected detection objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Minami, Koji Shiizaki, Akira Ando, Hajime Kodaira, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 11541571
    Abstract: Provided is a building material manufacturing apparatus and a building material manufacturing method that are suitable for efficiently manufacturing a building material while suppressing clogging of a sieve portion for sieving the building raw material. The building material manufacturing apparatus of the present invention includes, for example, a sieve portion 10 and a receiving tool 30. The sieve portion 10 includes a receiving and sending sheet 11 with no sieve openings, onto which the building raw material M is dropped, and at least one sieve sheet 12 with sieve openings that is located below the sheet. The receiving and sending sheet 11 and the sieve sheet 12 can perform undulating motion, are inclined, and are arranged side by side in the inclination direction. The receiving tool 30 is for receiving the building raw material M that has passed through the sieve openings of the sieve portion 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ikeda, Kazuhisa Yoshida, Hidenori Nishioka, Akihiro Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20220396091
    Abstract: An omnidirectional wheel whose outer circumference surface is formed by pluralities of rollers, and includes a rotating part that rotates around a rotation axis. A plurality of supports are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating part and each mounted on the rotating part. The rollers include a plurality of first rollers and a plurality of second rollers. Each support has a first arm supporting one end side of a corresponding first roller of the plurality of first rollers, and a second arm supporting the other end side of the corresponding first roller. A corresponding second roller of the plurality of second rollers is supported by the first arm of one of two supports that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction and the second arm of the other one of the two supports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Shuntaro SUGIMOTO, Kazuo BANDO, Satoshi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11514700
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of a character recognition result for a document image which is a character recognition target on the basis of a descriptive feature amount of a character string of a specific item included in the document image; and an image output unit configured to output an image of the character recognition result indicating the character string of the specific item in a display mode in accordance with the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiru Sugimoto, Katsuhiko Kondoh, Yuichi Nakatani, Junya Akiyama, Satoshi Segawa, Yasushi Hidaka
  • Patent number: 11508511
    Abstract: A coil device includes a pair of first core and second core, a third core, and a pair of first coil and second coil. The third core is disposed next to the first core or the second core. The pair of first coil and second coil is each disposed between any two of the first core, the second core, and the third core next to each other. Plate surfaces of the first coil and the second coil are opposed to each other. Each of the first coil and the second coil is partly exposed in a lateral direction of the first core, the second core, or the third core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Satoshi Sugimoto, Leo Yao
  • Patent number: 11504880
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material having excellent durability. [Solution] A building material has a convex part formed on a surface thereof, the convex part including a first lateral surface part and a second lateral surface part corresponding to the first lateral surface part. The building material is formed from a mixture containing a hydraulic material, an admixture, and a plant-based reinforcing material, and the plant-based reinforcing material at least in the convex part is distributed in the mixture with the hydraulic material and the admixture attached to the plant-based reinforcing material. A distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the first lateral surface part and a distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the second lateral surface part are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ikeda, Kazuhisa Yoshida, Hidenori Nishioka, Akihiro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11508518
    Abstract: A coil device includes a core and a plurality of coils arranged in the core. A distance of a second gap formed by portions of the core located inside at least one of the coils is larger than that of a first gap formed by other portions of the core located between the coils next to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Satoshi Sugimoto, Leo Yao
  • Patent number: 11482029
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an identifying unit that identifies a plurality of character strings that are candidates for a recording character string among a plurality of character strings acquired by recognizing characters included in a document image; an output unit that outputs a checking screen that represents positions of the plurality of character strings; and a feature quantity extracting unit that extracts a feature quantity of a character string corresponding to a position identified by a user on the checking screen as a feature quantity of the recording character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondoh, Yasushi Hidaka, Satoshi Segawa, Yuichi Nakatani, Michiru Sugimoto, Junya Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11476020
    Abstract: To provide a rare earth magnet having excellent coercive force and a production method thereof. A rare earth magnet, wherein the rare earth magnet comprises a magnetic phase containing Sm, Fe, and N, a Zn phase present around the magnetic phase, and an intermediate phase present between the magnetic phase and the Zn phase, wherein the intermediate phase contains Zn and the oxygen content of the intermediate phase is higher than the oxygen content of the Zn phase; and a method for producing a rare earth magnet, including mixing a magnetic raw material powder having an oxygen content of 1.0 mass % or less and an improving agent powder containing metallic Zn and/or a Zn alloy, and heat-treating the mixed powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noritsugu Sakuma, Tetsuya Shoji, Kazuaki Haga, Satoshi Sugimoto, Masashi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11464182
    Abstract: A method of inducing genetic recombination, including: allowing a protein having DNA double-stranded cleavage activity to act in cells of a eukaryotic organism which is a polyploidy inherently possessed by a eukaryotic organism. In eukaryotic organisms, various genetic recombination generates new genome set composition. This is done to obtain a population of eukaryotic organisms that hold the modified genomic set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Muramoto, Hidenori Tanaka, Hiroki Sugimoto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Akinori Ikeuchi, Risa Nakamura, Ritsuko Yogo, Satoshi Katahira, Chikara Ohto, Satoshi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20220301292
    Abstract: A target object detection device comprising a camera unit that acquires an image at a predetermined time interval; an image processing unit that extracts a target object from the image acquired; a comparison unit that compares the target object extracted from the image with a target object extracted from an image of a frame before the image; a storage unit that stores a weighting condition based on a position on an image between the target object extracted from the image and the target object extracted from the image of a frame before the image; and an identification unit that compares a comparison result of the comparison unit based on the weighting condition and identifies the target object extracted from the image of a frame before the image that matches the target object extracted from the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta NAKAO, Kiichi SUGIMOTO, Satoshi IIO
  • Patent number: 11443888
    Abstract: A coil component including a first conductive plate part formed with a first coil pattern having a first opening, and a second conductive plate part formed with a second coil pattern having a second opening and disposed at a predetermined interval in the laminating direction with respect to the first conductive plate part. The first conductive plate part and the second conductive plate part are made of the same single plate and are integrally formed by a bent joining segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syun Ashizawa, Takahiro Banzai, Satoshi Sugimoto, Hitoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: D964281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Satoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D969169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Ichikawa, Satoshi Sugimoto, Takahito Uemura, Satoshi Watanabe, Akira Tamura
  • Patent number: D975017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Satoshi Sugimoto