Patents by Inventor Shota Inoue

Shota Inoue 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: 20240142900
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt comprising: a substrate and an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the elastic layer comprising a cured rubber product including a cured silicone rubber product, an elastic modulus of the elastic layer at a temperature of 23° C. being 1.00 MPa or less, wherein when 1 g sample collected from the elastic layer is immersed in 50 ml of toluene at a temperature of 23° C. for 24 hours in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) K6258:2016, an extract of 3% by mass to 20% by mass with respect to the sample is extracted, and a burning time of the elastic layer in a burn test in accordance with UL94 VTM standard is 30 seconds or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE BABA, TAKESHI SUZUKI, MATSUTAKA MAEDA, ATSUSHI HORI, MASAHIRO TAKENAGA, HARUKI MORI, SHOTA INOUE
  • Patent number: 11945414
    Abstract: A vehicle windshield wiper blade comprising: a blade support portion; and a lip portion, wherein the lip portion has a tapered portion having a cross section that is taken along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wiper blade and that has a width that gradually decreases from a side closer to the blade support portion towards a direction farthest away from the blade support portion, the lip portion has a tip surface and first and second tapered surfaces constituting the tapered portion, and, in a specific observation region of the first and second tapered surfaces, the average value of the elastic modulus measured at a 0.1 ?m pitch is 15-470 MPa and the coefficient of variation of the elastic modulus is at most 17.6%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Aoyama, Masanori Yokoyama, Syoji Inoue, Arihiro Yamamoto, Hidekazu Matsuda, Shota Segawa
  • Publication number: 20240099553
    Abstract: Provided is an endoluminal device system including: an elongated and flexible endoluminal device; a wire that is disposed in the endoluminal device; a first sensor that detects tension of the wire; a second sensor that detects displacement of the wire; a driving device capable of pulling the wire; and a processor. The processor is configured to: cause the driving device to execute a relaxing operation for relaxing the wire, acquire the tension and the displacement of the wire during the relaxing operation, which are detected by the first sensor and the second sensor, respectively, and adjust a control parameter of the endoluminal device based on a rate of change in the tension with respect to the displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Noriaki YAMANAKA, Shota SAWADA, Hiroshi ASHIBA, Saki ISHIZAWA, Shun INOUE
  • Patent number: 11938958
    Abstract: The present disclosure including determining that a state of a load on an occupant in a vehicle on the basis of at least one of a traveling state of the vehicle (100), an external environment state of the vehicle, and a state of the occupant in the vehicle, and executing a dialogue with the occupant by executing a dialogue program corresponding to the state of the load on the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehito Teraguchi, Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Shota Okubo, Yu Shikoda
  • Publication number: 20240083380
    Abstract: A knee airbag device including an airbag cushion, a storage case in which is formed a horizontally long opening part where the expanded and deployed airbag cushion pops outs, a first flap for covering the airbag cushion exposed through the opening part such that the airbag cushion is retained in the storage case, and having a first weak part that breaks when pressed by the airbag cushion during expansion and deployment and a second flap, which is a component with a larger dimension in a length direction than the first flap and for covering an outer surface of the first flap so as to transverse in a short direction of the opening part a center part of the airbag cushion in a lateral direction, the second flap having a second weak part that breaks when pressed by the airbag cushion after rupture of the first weak part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Masaki OHSHINO, Teppei HOTTA, Shota INOUE, Satoru ARAI
  • Patent number: 11912295
    Abstract: A travel information processing apparatus includes a voice input device configured to input voice data of a user, an output device configured to specify an object by estimating from the voice data based on a word extracted from the voice data and indicating the object around a traveling route and a word extracted from the voice data and indicating a positional relationship of the object and output image data or voice data indicating a specified object; and a travel information processor configured to change a traveling motion of a subject vehicle based on the specified object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Jo Nishiyama, Takehito Teraguchi, Yu Shikoda, Shota Okubo
  • Publication number: 20230143311
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a coil unit that is suited to the bulk manufacturing of multiple sets of coil parts for a multi-axis linear motor actuator. This method of manufacturing a coil unit for a multi-axis linear motor actuator, which is constituted by disposing multiple sets of linear shaft motors 10 in a line at a prescribed pitch, includes: a step in which a coil fixing member 50 is prepared that holds receiving parts 51 that are capable of receiving multiple coil parts 15, which are equal in quantity to the multiple sets of linear shaft motors, with the coil parts being arranged in a line at the prescribed pitch; a step in which the multiple coil parts are disposed by being arranged in a line and secured to the coil fixing member; and a step in which electromagnetic shielding plates 70 that are longer than the coil parts are disposed along a center axis direction at locations corresponding to the spaces between at least adjacent coil parts among the multiple coil parts disposed in the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicants: NIPPON PULSE MOTOR CO., LTD., GMC HILLSTONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke SAKUMA, Tetsuo ISHIWARI, Michiru ABE, Shota INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230105292
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition may be capable of satisfactorily exhibiting sludge prevention properties and wear resistance evaluated by scoring resistance and seizure resistance over a long period of time. Such a lubricating oil composition may contain: a base oil (A); a hindered phenol-based antioxidant (B); one or more imide compounds (C) selected from the group consisting of a monoimide compound (C1) and a bisimide compound (C2); and an extreme pressure agent (D), in which the hindered phenol-based antioxidant (B) is 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol, the monoimide compound (C1) is one or more selected from the group consisting of an alkenyl succinic monoimide compound and an alkyl succinic monoimide compound, and the bisimide compound (C2) is one or more selected from the group consisting of an alkenyl succinic bisimide compound and an alkyl succinic bisimide compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventor: Shota INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230099792
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that includes a shaft along a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a stator that includes coils and opposes the rotor in a radial direction, a casing that supports the rotor and the stator, and a terminal attached to the casing and electrically connected to lead wires extending from the coils. The terminal includes a lead wire terminal portion that is in contact with the lead wire, an external terminal portion that is electrically connected to the lead wire terminal portion and extends toward an outside of the casing, and a holding portion that holds the lead wire terminal portion and the external terminal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Shota INOUE, Tomoyuki KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11499112
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic fluid composition containing a base oil (A), an antioxidant (B) including an amine-based antioxidant (B1) and a phenol-based antioxidant (B2), and a succinimide-based compound (C), wherein the hydraulic fluid composition satisfies the following requirement (I); and is to be used for hydraulic equipment which is equipped with at least one of a wet type brake and a wet type clutch and which is selected from a construction machinery, a general industrial machinery, and a power generator, and in which a working pressure is 30 MPa or more. The hydraulic fluid composition is not only excellent in wear resistance and an effect for suppressing the sludge formation but also excellent in a braking performance or a clutch performance, even when used under a high-pressure condition. Requirement (I): A static friction coefficient (?s) after 1,000 cycles, as measured in conformity with the SAE No. 2 test described in JCMAS P 047:2004, is 0.100 to 0.162.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Aoki, Shota Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220287934
    Abstract: A topical composition comprises (A) at least one polyhydric alcohol having a molecular weight of 100 to 200, and (B) at least one non-polymerizable cationic compound. The component (B) may be a compound containing a metal to be a divalent or higher cation in an aqueous solution, a basic amino acid, alkanol amine, or alkyl amine, and the component (A) may be glucose, sorbitol, fructose, xylitol, or erythritol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Shota INOUE
  • Patent number: 11306938
    Abstract: A dedicated wireless access point is not required, and an air-conditioning apparatus can be paired with a wireless access point simply by operating at hand an operating device that is separate from the air-conditioning apparatus. A remote control (15) is provided with a pairing request instruction button for instructing an air conditioner (12) to cause a first communicator serving as a wireless device of the air conditioner (12) to transmit pairing request data, and upon receiving, from the remote control (15), a signal indicating that the pairing request instruction button has been operated, the air conditioner (12) transmits pairing request data through the first communicator, completes a pairing upon receiving authentication data from a wireless AP (13), and connects to the wireless AP (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shota Inoue
  • Patent number: 11291065
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator is configured to wirelessly transmit a connection demand signal to establish a wireless connection between the wireless communicator and an additional wireless communicator. The controller is configured to control the wireless communicator to wirelessly transmit the connection demand signal at first frequency for a first period. The controller is configured to control the wireless communicator to wirelessly transmit the connection demand signal at second frequency which is different from the first frequency after a passage of the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Shota Inoue, Yoshiyuki Kasai, Makoto Usui, Masako Itsukashi, Akihiro Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20210232153
    Abstract: A traveling body has a position detector, a traveling controller, and a determination processor. The position detector detects a position of the traveling body while the traveling body travels. The traveling controller switches between a first traveling method and a second traveling method. In the first traveling method, the traveling body is traveled along a guide member, by detecting the guide member laid on the traveling route, whereas in the second traveling method, the traveling body is traveled based on the position detected by the position detector without depending on the guide member. The determination processor determines a detection state of the guide member. The traveling controller switches from the first traveling method to the second traveling method, when the determination processor determines that the guide member is in a detection state in which the traveling body cannot travel by the first traveling method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: SHOTA INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210130727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic fluid composition containing a base oil (A), an antioxidant (B) including an amine-based antioxidant (B1) and a phenol-based antioxidant (B2), and a succinimide-based compound (C), wherein the hydraulic fluid composition satisfies the following requirement (I): and is to be used for hydraulic equipment which is equipped with at least one of a wet type brake and a wet type clutch and which is selected from a construction machinery, a general industrial machinery, and a power generator, and in which a working pressure is 30 MPa or more. The hydraulic fluid composition is not only excellent in wear resistance and an effect for suppressing the sludge formation but also excellent in a braking performance or a clutch performance, even when used under a high-pressure condition. Requirement (I): A static friction coefficient (?s) after 1,000 cycles, as measured in conformity with the SAE No. 2 test described in JCMAS P 047:2004, is 0.100 to 0.162.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji AOKI, Shota INOUE
  • Publication number: 20200252987
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator is configured to wirelessly transmit a connection demand signal to establish a wireless connection between the wireless communicator and an additional wireless communicator. The controller is configured to control the wireless communicator to wirelessly transmit the connection demand signal at first frequency for a first period. The controller is configured to control the wireless communicator to wirelessly transmit the connection demand signal at second frequency which is different from the first frequency after a passage of the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Shota INOUE, Yoshiyuki KASAI, Makoto USUI, Masako ITSUKASHI, Akihiro NOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200182502
    Abstract: Provided herein is a network system (1) that includes a first air conditioning device (100, 200), a second air conditioning device (200, 100), and a server 300 that controls the second air conditioning device (200, 100) in accordance with information from the first air conditioning device (100, 200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: SHOTA INOUE, TAKUMA MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20200170060
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator has a first communication mode in which at least a first communication protocol is used and a second communication mode in which a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol is used. The controller is configured to set the wireless communicator with one of the first communication mode and the second communication mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Shota INOUE, Yoshiyuki KASAI, Makoto USUI, Masako ITSUKASHI, Akihiro NOZAKI
  • Patent number: 10667316
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator has a first communication mode in which at least a first communication protocol is used and a second communication mode in which a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol is used. The controller is configured to set the wireless communicator with one of the first communication mode and the second communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Shota Inoue, Yoshiyuki Kasai, Makoto Usui, Masako Itsukashi, Akihiro Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20200088435
    Abstract: A dedicated wireless access point is not required, and an air-conditioning apparatus can be paired with a wireless access point simply by operating at hand an operating device that is separate from the air-conditioning apparatus. A remote control (15) is provided with a pairing request instruction button for instructing an air conditioner (12) to cause a first communicator serving as a wireless device of the air conditioner (12) to transmit pairing request data, and upon receiving, from the remote control (15), a signal indicating that the pairing request instruction button has been operated, the air conditioner (12) transmits pairing request data through the first communicator, completes a pairing upon receiving authentication data from a wireless AP (13), and connects to the wireless AP (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: SHOTA INOUE