Patents by Inventor Shigeru Matsumoto

Shigeru Matsumoto 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: 20100245754
    Abstract: A head mounted display device comprises a frame, an image display unit, an extension member and a retaining mechanism. The frame includes a front part, a connection part and a temple part. The front part is mountable on a user's nose and extends in a right-and-left direction in front of the user's eye. The connection part is fixed to at least one edge portion of right and left side edges of the front part and extends in a rearward direction from the one edge portion. The temple part is mountable on the user's ear and rotatably connected with the connection part around a rotation axis extending along an up-and-down direction. The image display unit includes an optical system and is configured to generate an image to be displayed for the user. The extension member extends in a forward direction from the one edge portion. The retaining mechanism is configured to detachably retain the image display unit in the extension member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Mitsugi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100246022
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes: a projection part which projects an image corresponding to image information onto a retina of an eye of a user; and an eyeglasses-type frame which supports the projection part. The eyeglasses-type frame includes a resilient bent portion having a Z shape in a plan view on middle portions of left and right temples thereof. The projection part is arranged in front of the resilient bent portion of the eyeglasses-type frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Takeshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20100198640
    Abstract: An electric-power-generating-facility operation management support system includes an analyzing unit that calculates operation plan creating basic information based upon received information with regard to lifespan calculating expressions, present electric-power market information, and operation-history information with regard to electric power generation, and an operation plan creating unit that calculates and outputs operational conditions of electric power generating facilities as created operation planning based upon said operation plan creating basic information calculated by said analyzing unit. The analyzing unit includes a lifespan-consumption-costs calculating unit that calculates lifespan consumption costs of said electric power generating facilities, a reserve-electric-power-price estimating unit that estimates the market price of reserve electric power, and a reserve-electric-power supply-probability estimating unit that estimates probability of supply of reserve electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yutaka Iino, Shigeru Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20100171934
    Abstract: A lens array element has a rectangular plate-like external shape, and includes plate surfaces that functions as light transmission surfaces; and a plurality of cellular lenses that are formed on at least one of the plate surfaces. Each of end faces 4 of the rectangular plate-like external shape forms an inclined surface that slants inward from a plate surface 6 on one side toward a plate surface 2 on the other side, and a reference surface 5 perpendicular to the plate surface is formed on a part of at least two adjoining end faces among the end faces. A front view shape of the reference surface region arranged side-by-side with the inclined surface of the end face is a trapezoid, an oblique side 7 of the trapezoid is disposed so as to extend from a plate surface on one side toward the plate surface 2 on the other side, and an upper side 9 of the trapezoid is disposed on a side of the other of the plate surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoyuki OKUO, Shigeru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100073262
    Abstract: A head mounted display device has a frame. The frame includes a front portion mountable on a nose of a user, and extending to a right side edge of the front portion, and to a left side edge of the front portion, in front of at least one eye of the user, a connection portion connected to an edge portion of at least one of the right and left side edge, and the connection portion extends rearward from the edge portion, and a temple portion configured to be mountable on an ear of the user, rotatably connected to the connection portion, and rotates around a rotation axis. The head mounted display also has an image display unit having an optical system, for generating an image to be displayed at a position viewable by the user, and a retaining mechanism to hold the image display unit within the connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20090288416
    Abstract: The present invention provides a turbine system which can start a turbine, while controlling thermal stress generated in a turbine rotor and an expansion difference, due to thermal expansion, between a casing and the turbine rotor, to be lower than defined values, respectively. The turbine system (1) according to the present invention includes the turbine (4) having a casing (2) and the turbine rotor (3) rotatably attached to the casing (2), and a main steam pipe (5) connected to an upstream portion of the casing (2). A control valve (6) adapted for controlling a flow rate of steam discharging into the casing (2) is provided with the main steam pipe (5), and a power generator (7) is coupled with the turbine rotor (3). Additionally, a starting control system (10) is adapted for controlling the control valve (6), while obtaining an operational amount of the control valve (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Koji YAKUSHI, Asako INOMATA, Eiji NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20090251671
    Abstract: A lens position adjusting mechanism includes a lens, a lens attachment frame that includes a lens holding portion for holding the rim of the lens, and a holding case that sandwiches the lens attachment frame movably in a plane direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens. The lens attachment frame includes a shaft portion on the periphery of the lens holding portion, functioning as a fulcrum at a time when the lens attachment frame moves in the plane direction. The holding case includes a shaft supporting portion for supporting the shaft portion and frame guide grooves for sandwiching the lens attachment frame. The position of the lens is adjusted by operating a lug portion by fingers or the like with the shaft portion as a fulcrum. Then the adjusted position is fixed by injecting an adhesive into wedge spaces formed of opposing adhesion grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi FUJIWARA, Shigeru Matsumoto, Hiroki Koba
  • Patent number: 7376536
    Abstract: A method for investigating a cause of decrease in frequency of abnormality detections for a certain device mounted on a vehicle, wherein when a plurality of abnormality detection conditions are satisfied, the abnormality detection for the certain device is performed to determine if the certain device is in failure, the method includes (i) when the frequency of the abnormality detections is below a predetermined value, disabling one of the abnormality detection conditions; (ii) when the abnormality detection conditions except the disabled abnormality detection condition are satisfied, performing an abnormality detection for the certain device; (iii) repeating the step (ii) a plurality of times; and (iv) determining if the disabled abnormality detection condition at that time is the cause of the decrease in the frequency of the abnormality detections, based on frequency of the abnormality detections in the step (iii).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited
    Inventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Shigeru Matsumoto, Koichi Ohgaki, Kazumasa Iwakawa
  • Patent number: D541331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Masanori Oda
  • Patent number: D544532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Satoru Hattori
  • Patent number: D556255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D556256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D562376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Takito, Narihiko Hashimoto, Daisuke Nakayama, Tomoyuki Okamoto, Shigeru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D582920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: D583822
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: D592209
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: D601560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Satoru Hattori
  • Patent number: D609236
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Mitsugi Tanaka, Takeshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: D617791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Sakiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D645512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Kazue Torii