Patents by Inventor Shinichi Hashimoto
Shinichi Hashimoto 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: 12250910Abstract: A cultivation and management device for fruit vegetable plants and fruit trees includes environment state information on an environment state of a fruit vegetable plant or a fruit tree to be cultivated, planned cultivation evaluation index information on a preplanned cultivation evaluation index of the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree, a calculation unit configured to determine and output a work including a shape change work for the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree with respect to inputs of the environment state information and the planned cultivation evaluation index information with a learning model, and an output unit configured to output the work including the shape change work for the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Hosomi, Sho Sasaki, Atsushi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Miyaura
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Publication number: 20250067457Abstract: A satisfaction calculation device (10) calculates satisfaction with an air quality expressing an air environment of a space. A specific enthalpy calculation unit (110) acquires a temperature and a humidity of the space and calculates a specific enthalpy of the space. An air quality satisfaction calculation unit (120) acquires a carbon dioxide concentration of the space, decides a constant that takes a different value in accordance with the carbon dioxide concentration, and calculates satisfaction with the air quality as an air quality satisfaction (31) by using the specific enthalpy and the constant. The air quality satisfaction calculation unit (120) calculates, as the air quality satisfaction (31), a value obtained by adding a second constant to a value obtained by multiplying the specific enthalpy by a first constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, WASEDA UNIVERSITYInventors: Kazuki HAMADA, Noriko TAKAHASHI, Masanori HASHIMOTO, Shinichi TANABE, Hiroaki NAGASHIMA, Yuta FUKAWA
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Publication number: 20250043561Abstract: A siphon jet flush toilet comprises: a bowl; a rim spout port suppling flush water to the bowl; a discharge trap conduit; a jet spout port spouting flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit; a reservoir tank including a jet spouting discharge valve and storing flush water; a jet water conduit configured to guide the flush water in the reservoir tank to the jet spout port; and a controller being configured to control a rim spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the rim spout port and a jet spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the jet spout port, wherein the jet spouting discharge valve includes a valve body, the valve body being arranged at a position that is lower than an upper surface of the bowl and higher than a seal water level, and before opening the jet spouting discharge valve, the flush water is supplied to the jet water conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Koichiro MATSUMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Chisato SONE, Shinichi URATA, Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Koichi MOTOOKA, Kenji HATAMA
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Publication number: 20250043559Abstract: A flush toilet includes a reservoir tank, a bowl, a rim spout port, a discharge trap conduit, a jet spout port configured to spout flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit, a jet water conduit configured to supply the flush water from the reservoir tank to the jet spout port, and a discharge device configured to supply or stop supplying the flush water to the jet water conduit, wherein the flush water is spouted at a first flow rate from the jet spout port when the discharge device is driven and the flush water in the reservoir tank flows into the jet water conduit and, after spouting of the first flow rate ends, the flush water is spouted at a second flow rate from the jet spout port due to the flush water retained in the jet water conduit flowing toward the jet spout port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Shinichi URATA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Chisato SONE, Jing CHEN, Wataru ISHIMI, Naoki ABE, Daisuke YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20250028207Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a reflective layer, a first electrode and a second electrode configured to generate a transverse electrical field in the liquid crystal layer, and a first horizontal alignment film. An electrode, of the first electrode and the second electrode, disposed on a side of the liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of belt-shaped portions and a slit positioned between two adjacent belt-shaped portions of the plurality of belt-shaped portions, the liquid crystal layer is constituted by a liquid crystal material including a liquid crystal molecule, the liquid crystal material is a positive type. The second substrate includes a second horizontal alignment film being in contact with the liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal layer takes a twist alignment when no voltage is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Tsuyoshi OKAZAKI, Shinichi TERASHITA, Yuko TERAOKA, Kouichi WATANABE, Takehisa YOSHIDA, Yoshito HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240204432Abstract: An electrical connector having a housing with a first surface and a second surface. Contact receiving openings extend from the first surface to the second surface. Contacts are positioned in the contact receiving openings. The contacts have base members and resilient contact beams extending from opposed sides of the base members. Sidewalls extend from opposed sides of the base members from which the resilient contact beams do not extend. The contacts also provide multiple electrical pathways across the contacts for electrical signal transmissions, allowing for signal transmissions to transmitted at frequencies of approximately 224 Gbps or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicants: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Shinichi HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIRAI, Naoki HASHIMOTO, Masayuki AIZAWA, Hirotate KADOBAYASHI, Chad William MORGAN
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Patent number: 11916328Abstract: A socket includes a flat-plate-shaped housing, a plurality of contacts supported by the flat-plate-shaped housing, a frame attached to the flat-plate-shaped housing and extending along the flat-plate-shaped housing, a plurality of first solder balls disposed on a lower surface of the flat-plate-shaped housing and facing a circuit board, and a plurality of second solder balls disposed on the lower surface of the flat-plate-shaped housing. The frame defines, in an in-plane direction of the flat-plate-shaped housing, a position of an electronic component having a lower surface including a plurality of pads configured to contact the contacts upon the electronic component being mounted. The first solder balls electrically connect to each of the contacts and electrically connect to the circuit board. The second solder balls are not electrically connected to the contacts.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G. K.Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Shinichi Hashimoto
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Electrical interconnect with conductive polymer contacts having tips with different shapes and sizes
Patent number: 11894629Abstract: A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K., TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Megan Hoarfrost Beers, Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Jennifer Love, Clarence Leon Yu, Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai -
Publication number: 20230200785Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image obtaining unit, a contour position obtaining unit, a volume information calculating unit, and a controlling unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a plurality of groups of two-dimensional ultrasound image data each of which is generated by performing ultrasound scans, the ultrasound scans being performed on each of a plurality of predetermined cross-sectional planes, and performed for predetermined time. The contour position obtaining unit obtains, by performing a tracking process over the predetermined time period, time-series data of contour positions, the contour positions being either one of, or both of, a cavity interior and a cavity exterior of a predetermined site. The volume information calculating unit calculates, on a basis of a plurality of the time-series data of contour positions, volume information of the predetermined site. The controlling unit exercises control so as to output the volume information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiko ABE, Shinichi HASHIMOTO, Kazuya AKAKI
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Patent number: 11664619Abstract: An interposer includes a housing having a plurality of through-holes penetrating a first surface and a second surface and a signal contact pair composed of a pair of signal contacts. Each of the signal contacts includes a base portion press-fitted in one of the through-holes, a first contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the first surface, and a second contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the second surface. The pair of signal contacts are positioned adjacently to each other widthwise and are each asymmetrical with respect to a width direction. The signal contact pair has a plane-symmetrical shape with respect to the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 11623198Abstract: An ultrasound generation member according to an aspect of the present invention includes an ultrasound generation element configured to emit ultrasound in a direction of a target object in one specific container of a plurality of containers. An ultrasound emission device according to an aspect of the present invention includes the ultrasound generation member, and a drive power supply configured to apply voltage across the ultrasound generation element of the ultrasound generation member. An ultrasound emission device according to an aspect of the present invention includes the ultrasound generation member that includes, as the ultrasound generation element, a plurality of ultrasound generation elements, and a drive power supply configured to apply voltage across the plurality of ultrasound generation elements of the ultrasound generation member.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, CORONA ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Goto, Hirotsugu Ogi, Masatomo So, Kensuke Ikenaka, Hideki Mochizuki, Shinichi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20220357899Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory, a control device, and an image forming device. The control device includes a processor and functions as a memory manager and a controller through the processor executing a control program. The memory manager allocates amounts of the memory depending on different types of processing constituting a job to create a plurality of memory regions. The controller executes the job using at least one of the plurality of memory regions. The image forming device executes an image forming job of forming an image on a sheet under control of the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shinya OGAWA, Tsuyoshi NITTA, Yasuyuki YABUUCHI, Satoshi HAYAMA, Shinichi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220294145Abstract: A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Megan Hoarfrost Beers, Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Jennifer Love, Clarence Leon Yu, Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai
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Publication number: 20220142475Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that examines an examinee's eye while an examination axis coincides with the examinee's eye, the ophthalmic apparatus including: a housing: an examination-purpose protrusion protruding along the examination axis toward the examinee's eye from an examinee's eye facing surface being a surface of the housing that faces the examinee's eye; an anterior segment imaging optical system configured to capture an image of the anterior segment of the examinee's eye; and a processor, wherein the processor executes: an anterior segment image acquisition step of acquiring the anterior segment image captured by the anterior segment imaging optical system; and a pupil position detection step of processing the acquired anterior segment image and detecting the position of the pupil of the examinee's eye while the influence of the shadow of the examination-purpose protrusion that appears in the anterior segment image is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi HASHIMOTO, Tomofumi FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20220037823Abstract: An interposer includes a housing having a plurality of through-holes penetrating a first surface and a second surface and a signal contact pair composed of a pair of signal contacts. Each of the signal contacts includes a base portion press-fitted in one of the through-holes, a first contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the first surface, and a second contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the second surface. The pair of signal contacts are positioned adjacently to each other widthwise and are each asymmetrical with respect to a width direction. The signal contact pair has a plane-symmetrical shape with respect to the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 11183784Abstract: An interposer includes a housing and a contact disposed in the housing. The housing has a first face, a second face opposite the first face, and a passageway penetrating the first face and the second face. The contact has a base portion press-fitted in the passageway, a first contact beam extending obliquely with respect to the first face from the base portion, and a second contact beam extending obliquely with respect to the second face from the base portion. The first contact beam extends outward beyond the first face and has a first contact point portion. The second contact beam extends outward beyond the second face and has a second contact point portion. The first contact point portion and the second contact point portion both extend beyond a penetrated region of the passageway in a direction perpendicular to an insertion direction in which the contact is inserted into the passageway.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 11177603Abstract: An interposer includes a housing having a plurality of through-holes penetrating a first surface and a second surface and a signal contact pair composed of a pair of signal contacts. Each of the signal contacts includes a base portion press-fitted in one of the through-holes, a first contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the first surface, and a second contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the second surface. The pair of signal contacts are positioned adjacently to each other widthwise and are each asymmetrical with respect to a width direction. A first minimum spacing between the first contact beams of the pair of signal contacts is narrower than a second minimum spacing between the base portions of the pair of signal contacts. The signal contact pair has a plane-symmetrical shape with respect to the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20210126394Abstract: A socket includes a flat-plate-shaped housing, a plurality of contacts supported by the flat-plate-shaped housing, a frame attached to the flat-plate-shaped housing and extending along the flat-plate-shaped housing, a plurality of first solder balls disposed on a lower surface of the flat-plate-shaped housing and facing a circuit board, and a plurality of second solder balls disposed on the lower surface of the flat-plate-shaped housing. The frame defines, in an in-plane direction of the flat-plate-shaped housing, a position of an electronic component having a lower surface including a plurality of pads configured to contact the contacts upon the electronic component being mounted. The first solder balls electrically connect to each of the contacts and electrically connect to the circuit board. The second solder balls are not electrically connected to the contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Shinichi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10978820Abstract: An integrated circuit socket includes a housing having a flat plate portion and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing. The contacts each have a contact beam projecting outwardly from a first surface of the housing and a retained portion disposed in a passageway in the flat plate portion. The contact beam extends from the retained portion. The retained portion has a base portion with a flat-plate shape and a pair of side portions extending at an angle with respect to the base portion on a pair of opposite sides of the base portion. A cross-section of the retained portion parallel to the first surface has a U-shape.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Masayuki Aizawa, Hiroshi Shirai, Naoki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10972616Abstract: A reference device includes an operation section, a function collecting section, a function selection screen generating section, and a remote connection section. The function collecting section receives a function list from another device connected to a network. The function selection screen generating section generates a function selection screen including a function of the reference device and a function present only in the other device by comparing the function list received from the other device to a function list of the reference device and displays the function selection screen on the operation section. When the function present only in the other device is selected in the function selection screen, the remote connection section remotely connects the other device in which the selected function is present to the operation section of the reference device.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kunihiko Shimamoto, Shinichi Hashimoto, Akihiko Ikazaki