Patents by Inventor Takashi Hirano

Takashi Hirano 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: 10168786
    Abstract: An emphasis level R is calculated in accordance with a difference between a position of a hand of an operator A specified based on a detection signal of a 3D camera 6 and a predetermined position of a hand for performing a gesture operation. A notification of a presence of an operation object intended for the gesture operation is provided with the calculated emphasis level R to thereby guide the hand of the operator A to a predetermined position of a hand, every time the emphasis level R is calculated in response to the detection of the hand of the operator A by the 3D camera 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Hirano, Taro Kumagai, Shuhei Ota
  • Publication number: 20180290512
    Abstract: A suspension arm includes an arm portion and coupling portions, and the suspension arm is integrally made of a fiber reinforced plastics in entirety. The entire arm portion is made of a random fiber reinforced plastics. Each of the coupling portions is made of a continuous fiber reinforced plastics in which continuous fibers are oriented along a circumferential direction of an insertion hole over a region on a distal end side of the suspension arm, which continuously extends by at least a half circumference around a center axis of the insertion hole, the region including a position crossing a flat plane that is orthogonal to a straight line connecting center points of the insertion holes of elastic bushes and passes through the center point of the insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi HIRANO, Yasuhiko NABESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180294430
    Abstract: An electroluminescence device and a display device including an electroluminescence device are provided. The electroluminescence device includes an anode including silver, wherein at least a portion of the anode substantially extends in a horizontal direction; a first layer provided over the anode; an organic layer including a luminescent layer; a cathode provided over the organic layer; and an insulating layer provided over an end portion of the anode and an end portion of the first layer, wherein at least a portion of the cathode substantially extends in the horizontal direction in a light emission region, wherein a surface of the insulating layer has a curved portion, and wherein at least a portion of the cathode within a region of the insulating layer above the curved portion extends along a first angled upward direction between the horizontal direction and the thickness direction of the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Koji HANAWA, Jiro YAMADA, Takashi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20180245589
    Abstract: A variable oil pump includes a pump rotor housed in a housing and rotationally driven, an adjustment ring that adjusts an amount of oil discharged from the pump rotor by being displaced under hydraulic pressure supplied to a hydraulic chamber between the housing and the pump rotor in a state where the pump rotor is rotatably held from an outer peripheral side, and a vane provided in a portion where the adjustment ring and the housing face each other and that seals oil leakage to an outside of the hydraulic chamber. The adjustment ring includes a vane holding portion that holds the vane and an oil passage through which the hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic chamber is drawn into the vane holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi HIRANO, Atsuo ISODA, Takahiro SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10020460
    Abstract: An electroluminescence device and a display device including an electroluminescence device are provided. The electroluminescence device includes an anode including silver, wherein at least a portion of the anode substantially extends in a horizontal direction; a first layer provided over the anode; an organic layer including a luminescent layer; a cathode provided over the organic layer; and an insulating layer provided over an end portion of the anode and an end portion of the first layer, wherein at least a portion of the cathode substantially extends in the horizontal direction in a light emission region, wherein a surface of the insulating layer has a curved portion, and wherein at least a portion of the cathode within a region of the insulating layer above the curved portion extends along a first angled upward direction between the horizontal direction and the thickness direction of the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hanawa, Jiro Yamada, Takashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20180061134
    Abstract: An HUD superimposes a display object, as a stereoscopic image or a planar image, on an actual scene. A display control device acquires information about a moving object and information about surrounding and estimates a relative distance between a display obstacle and the moving object. When it is determined that the display obstacle exists or can exist between the display object and the moving object, the display control device changes the display mode of the display object in accordance with the amount of change in the relative distance and notifies the HUD of the display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei OTA, Takashi HIRANO, Taro KUMAGAI
  • Patent number: 9894271
    Abstract: A pattern inspection apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image capture and an output part. The image capture captures an image of a second pattern of an inspection target object obtained by enlarging the inspection target object having a first pattern. The output part outputs position information of the first or second pattern corresponding to divergent portions between a reference data generated from design data of the first pattern and a captured data generated by the image capture, other than prediction positions of first defects occurring when the inspection target object is enlarged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Yoshikawa, Tatsuhiko Higashiki, Seiji Morita, Takashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 9722201
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device capable of enhancing reflectance of an anode, thereby resulting in improved light-emitting efficiency and a method of manufacturing the same. An anode (12), a thin film layer for hole injection (13), an insulating layer (14), an organic layer (15) including a luminescent layer (15C) and a cathode (16) including a semi-transparent electrode (16A) are laminated in order on a substrate (11). The anode (12) comprises silver which is a metal with high reflectance or an alloy including silver, and the thin film layer for hole injection (13) comprises chromium oxide or the like. Light generated in the luminescent layer (15C) is multiply reflected between the anode (12) and the semi-transparent electrode (16A) to be emitted from the cathode (16). As the reflectance of the anode (12) is enhanced, the light generated in the luminescent layer (15C) can be efficiently emitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hanawa, Jiro Yamada, Takashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20160334879
    Abstract: An emphasis level R is calculated in accordance with a difference between a position of a hand of an operator A specified based on a detection signal of a 3D camera 6 and a predetermined position of a hand for performing a gesture operation. A notification of a presence of an operation object intended for the gesture operation is provided with the calculated emphasis level R to thereby guide the hand of the operator A to a predetermined position of a hand, every time the emphasis level R is calculated in response to the detection of the hand of the operator A by the 3D camera 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi HIRANO, Taro KUMAGAI, Shuhei OTA
  • Publication number: 20160275365
    Abstract: A pattern inspection apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image capture and an output part. The image capture captures an image of a second pattern of an inspection target object obtained by enlarging the inspection target object having a first pattern. The output part outputs position information of the first or second pattern corresponding to divergent portions between a reference data generated from design data of the first pattern and a captured data generated by the image capture, other than prediction positions of first defects occurring when the inspection target object is enlarged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ryoji Yoshikawa, Tatsuhiko Higashiki, Seiji Morita, Takashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20160268539
    Abstract: An electroluminescence device and a display device including an electroluminescence device are provided. The electroluminescence device includes an anode including silver, wherein at least a portion of the anode substantially extends in a horizontal direction; a first layer provided over the anode; an organic layer including a luminescent layer; a cathode provided over the organic layer; and an insulating layer provided over an end portion of the anode and an end portion of the first layer, wherein at least a portion of the cathode substantially extends in the horizontal direction in a light emission region, wherein a surface of the insulating layer has a curved portion, and wherein at least a portion of the cathode within a region of the insulating layer above the curved portion extends along a first angled upward direction between the horizontal direction and the thickness direction of the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Koji Hanawa, Jiro Yamada, Takashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 9443557
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a data recording unit configured to record data in a cartridge which is mounted on a cartridge mounting unit and stores a plurality of recording media, the data recording unit being configured to record a first resolution video data file having a first resolution in a first recording medium of the cartridge and record, in a second recording medium of the cartridge, a second resolution video data file having another resolution lower than the first resolution corresponding to the first resolution video data file recorded in the first recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Hirano, Ryoichi Sakuragi
  • Publication number: 20160233454
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device capable of enhancing reflectance of an anode, thereby resulting in improved light-emitting efficiency and a method of manufacturing the same. An anode (12), a thin film layer for hole injection (13), an insulating layer (14), an organic layer (15) including a luminescent layer (15C) and a cathode (16) including a semi-transparent electrode (16A) are laminated in order on a substrate (11). The anode (12) comprises silver which is a metal with high reflectance or an alloy including silver, and the thin film layer for hole injection (13) comprises chromium oxide or the like. Light generated in the luminescent layer (15C) is multiply reflected between the anode (12) and the semi-transparent electrode (16A) to be emitted from the cathode (16). As the reflectance of the anode (12) is enhanced, the light generated in the luminescent layer (15C) can be efficiently emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Koji Hanawa, Jiro Yamada, Takashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 9404601
    Abstract: A solenoid valve is arranged in a flow path in which a fluid flows in both directions, and is constituted from a solenoid valve mounting portion, in which a first port and a second port are formed, and a single solenoid valve portion. A first flow rate stabilizing orifice is disposed between the first port and a valve body of the solenoid valve portion, and a second flow rate stabilizing orifice is disposed between the second port and the valve body. A bypass orifice is disposed in a bypass flow path that bypasses the first flow rate stabilizing orifice and the second flow rate stabilizing orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Yoshida, Hideaki Yashiro, Takashi Hirano
  • Patent number: 9240564
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device is capable of enhancing reflectance of an anode, resulting in improved light-emitting efficiency. An anode, a thin film layer for hole injection, an insulating layer, an organic layer including a luminescent layer and a cathode including a semi-transparent electrode are laminated in order on a substrate. The anode comprises silver which is a metal with high reflectance or an alloy including silver, and the thin film layer for hole injection comprises chromium oxide or the like. Light generated in the luminescent layer is multiply reflected between the anode and the semi-transparent electrode to be emitted from the cathode. As the reflectance of the anode is enhanced, the light generated in the luminescent layer can be efficiently emitted. An alloy comprised in the anode preferably includes silver, palladium and copper, and a silver content is preferably 50% by mass or over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hanawa, Jiro Yamada, Takashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20150240964
    Abstract: A solenoid valve is arranged in a flow path in which a fluid flows in both directions, and is constituted from a solenoid valve mounting portion, in which a first port and a second port are formed, and a single solenoid valve portion. A first flow rate stabilizing orifice is disposed between the first port and a valve body of the solenoid valve portion, and a second flow rate stabilizing orifice is disposed between the second port and the valve body. A bypass orifice is disposed in a bypass flow path that bypasses the first flow rate stabilizing orifice and the second flow rate stabilizing orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami YOSHIDA, Hideaki YASHIRO, Takashi HIRANO
  • Patent number: 9068626
    Abstract: A balancer device of an internal combustion engine, has a drive gear engaged with an input gear to which a rotation force is transmitted from a crankshaft; a balancer drive shaft to which the rotation force is transmitted from the drive gear and which has a balancer weight; a balancer drive gear rotating integrally with the balancer drive shaft; a balancer driven gear engaged with the balancer drive gear; and a balancer driven shaft rotating integrally with the balancer driven gear and having a balancer weight. At least one of the drive gear, the balancer drive gear and the balancer driven gear is provided, on both axial direction side surfaces thereof, with ring-shaped grooves whose diameters are different from each other. The ring-shaped grooves are formed up to a depth from the surface of the gear at which both the ring-shaped grooves overlap each other in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Saito, Tamotsu Todo, Masaharu Kitamura, Harunobu Okabe, Seiji Tsuruta, Takashi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20150137104
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device capable of enhancing reflectance of an anode, thereby resulting in improved light-emitting efficiency and a method of manufacturing the same. An anode (12), a thin film layer for hole injection (13), an insulating layer (14), an organic layer (15) including a luminescent layer (15C) and a cathode (16) including a semi-transparent electrode (16A) are laminated in order on a substrate (11). The anode (12) comprises silver which is a metal with high reflectance or an alloy including silver, and the thin film layer for hole injection (13) comprises chromium oxide or the like. Light generated in the luminescent layer (15C) is multiply reflected between the anode (12) and the semi-transparent electrode (16A) to be emitted from the cathode (16). As the reflectance of the anode (12) is enhanced, the light generated in the luminescent layer (15C) can be efficiently emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Hanawa, Jiro Yamada, Takashi Hirano
  • Patent number: D797022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Kumagai, Tetsuya Satake, Takashi Hirano, Takanori Okumura
  • Patent number: D834477
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Kumagai, Tetsuya Satake, Takashi Hirano, Takanori Okumura