Patents by Inventor Toru Shimizu
Toru Shimizu 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: 11837378Abstract: A communication cable includes a coating layer that contains a powdery magnetic material and that can suppress the occurrence of a powdery substance containing the magnetic material when processing the coating layer. The communication cable further includes a conductor, an insulating coating that covers an outer circumstance of the conductor, and a magnetic sheath layer that covers an outer side of the insulating coating, and the magnetic sheath layer contains the magnetic material and the magnetic material has a particle shape with an average particle diameter of not more than 50 ?m and an aspect ratio of not greater than 4.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Kinji Taguchi, Tatsuya Shimada, Takaki Endo, Ryoma Uegaki, Yuta Yasuyoshi
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Publication number: 20230364980Abstract: A temperature adjustment system includes: a refrigeration cycle circuit including a first compressor, a heat radiator, a first expansion valve, a chiller configured to perform heat exchange using the expanded refrigerant, and a gas-liquid separator configured to perform gas-liquid separation on the refrigerant and supply a gas phase refrigerant to the first compressor; a first cooling water circuit including an external heat radiator; a second cooling water circuit configured to heat the cooling water flowing therethrough by the heat of the refrigerant radiated by the heat radiator; a third cooling water circuit configured to cool the cooling water flowing therethrough, and adjust a temperature of a device by heat exchange with the cooling water; a first valve configured to connect or disconnect the first and the second cooling water circuits; and a second valve configured to connect or disconnect the second and the third cooling water circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Tatsunari Kawaguchi, Satoshi Ogihara, Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Takashi Nakamura, Yuuki Tani, Kouji Hirono, Satoshi Shimizu, Tomohiro Maeda, Shigeyoshi Kadokura
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Patent number: 11813864Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes ejection orifices for ejecting liquid, common liquid chambers connected to the ejection orifices, common flow passages, and pitch conversion flow passages that connects the common flow passages and liquid chambers to each other. The pitch conversion flow passages includes a periphery formed with resin. In a case where a number of pitch conversion flow passages in a group is minimum on a condition that one or more of the pitch conversion flow passages are respectively included in the group, the pitch conversion flow passages have a repeating pattern in which the group is repeatedly arranged. At least one of two pitch conversion flow passages adjoining an m-th pitch conversion flow passage (m is all integers from 1 to n?2, where n is an integer of 3 or more) is one of first to (m+1)-th pitch conversion flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoko Shimizu, Toru Nakakubo, Kazuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Teranishi, Osamu Kanome
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Patent number: 11796460Abstract: In order to provide an absorbance analysis apparatus for DCR gas that can measure a concentration of a DCR gas by separating absorbance of the DCR gas alone even in a mixed gas consisting of the DCR gas and CO gas whose absorption spectrum overlaps each other, the absorbance analysis apparatus for DCR gas comprises a DCR filter 31 that is configured to transmit a light in a first wavenumber domain including an absorbance peak of the DCR gas, a CO filter 32 that is configured to transmit a light in a second wavenumber domain that is different from the first wavenumber domain, and a DCR gas volume calculator 4 that is configured to calculate volume of the DCR gas based on a first absorbance measured by the light transmitted through the DCR filter 31 and a second absorbance measured by the light transmitted through the CO filter 32.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Furuya, Masayuki Tanaka, Yuhei Sakaguchi, Masakazu Minami, Toru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20230318160Abstract: A multilayer body has a structure including insulating layers stacked on each other in an up-down direction. A first conductive layer is on a top main surface of one of the insulating layers. A first signal is transmitted through the first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is on a same insulating layer that the first conductive layer is on. The second conductive layer is on a same main surface as the top main surface or the bottom main surface of the insulating layer on which the first conductive layer is located. A second signal having a higher frequency than the first signal is transmitted through the second conductive layer. A top conductive layer is above the second conductive layer. A thickness of the second conductive layer in the up-down direction is smaller than that of the first conductive layer in the up-down direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Yushi SOETA, Kentarou KAWABE, Kouki SHIMIZU, Toru KURISU, Akihiro YAMAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230302912Abstract: A vehicle configured such that an on-board battery is chargeable by receiving electric power from a power supply outside the vehicle includes an inlet, a voltage sensor that detects an input voltage that is a voltage input from the power supply to the inlet, and a control device configured to execute a detection process when connected to the inlet. The detection process includes a first process that suspends charging when a difference between the input voltage before a start of the charging and the input voltage after the start of the charging is equal to or larger than a threshold value, and a second process that stops the charging when a difference between the input voltage during suspension of the charging in the first process and the input voltage after resumption of the charging is equal to or larger than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yamato NIWA, Toshihiko MINAMII, Toru ANDO, Yu SHIMIZU, Toshiki MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 11707850Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to reduce the downtime which occurs when changing a servo motor device. A servo motor device includes a motor section and a reduction gear configured to output a driving force by reducing a speed of rotation of the motor section, wherein a control device includes a detecting section configured to acquire detected information about operation of the motor section, and a computing section configured to generate an approximate curve based on a behavior for a time sequence of a parameter and to calculate predicted lifetime information of the servo motor device based on the approximate curve thus generated, wherein the parameter has been calculated by means of the detected information.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: Futaba Corporation, Chiba Institute of TechnologyInventors: Shotaro Kudo, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Toru Kono, Ryosei Kuramoto, Hidetoshi Muramatsu, Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato
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Publication number: 20230228679Abstract: In order to prevent cracking of a window material in manufacturing an optical measurement cell that satisfies various performances required for airtightness, heat resistance, and the like by atomic diffusion bonding, an optical measurement cell into which a sample is introduced includes a light transmission window through which light is transmitted, and includes a window material forming the light transmission window, and a flange member to which the window material is bonded via a metal thin film, and a ratio of a thermal expansion coefficient of the flange member to a thermal expansion coefficient of the window material is 0.5 times or more and 1.5 times or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki NAKATA, Masakazu MINAMI, Yuhei SAKAGUCHI, Toru SHIMIZU, Takeshi AKAMATSU
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Publication number: 20230228330Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Kota TAKEUCHI, Toru SHIMIZU, Satoshi NAGASAKA, Katsuhisa SAITO
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Patent number: 11698649Abstract: Provided is a concentration control module that improve responsiveness of concentration control of a vaporization system, and is used in a vaporization system. The concentration control module includes a concentration measuring part configured to measure a concentration of a source gas; a valve provided in a lead-out pipe configured to lead out the source gas from the tank; a pressure target value calculating part configured to calculate a pressure target value inside the tank by using a concentration target value of the source gas, and a concentration measured value of the concentration measuring part; a delay filter configured to generate a pressure control value by applying a predetermined time delay to the pressure target value obtained by the pressure target value calculating part; and a valve control part configured to feedback-control the valve by using a deviation between the pressure control value obtained by the delay filter, and a pressure inside the tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.Inventor: Toru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20230192661Abstract: Provided is a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein A is a C6-C10 aryl group or a heteroaryl group, wherein at least one hydrogen atom of the aryl group or the heteroaryl group is optionally replaced with a substituent selected from a predetermined group, R is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group, R1 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, and Y is a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a hydroxy group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Ken-ichi Komori, Haruka Yamada, Hayato Shimizu, Yasuhiro Aga, Ayumi Ogawa, Toru Hasegawa, Takashi Matsushita, Yasunori Tokunaga
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Patent number: 11682855Abstract: A connector 10 disclosed by this specification is a connector 10 into which a plate-like mating terminal 100 is insertable and is provided with a plate-like connection terminal 20, a spring portion 80, and a housing 40 including an insertion opening into which the mating terminal 100 is inserted, the spring portion 80 being held in the housing 40. The mating terminal 100 inserted into the insertion opening and the connection terminal 20 are sandwiched by the spring portion 80.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Toru Shimizu
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Publication number: 20230166530Abstract: A mobile printer includes: a roll body accommodating portion including a first partition wall and accommodating a roll body on which a recording paper is wound; a print head; a transport unit; a power supply unit, and supplying a drive voltage signal to the print head and the transport unit; and a housing including a power supply surface to which the power receiving module is fixed, and covering the roll body accommodating portion, the print head, the transport unit, and the power supply unit, in which at least a part of the first partition wall is located between the power receiving module and the roll body accommodating portion along one direction from the power receiving module to the roll body accommodating portion, and a thickness of the first partition wall along the one direction is larger than a thickness of the power supply surface along the one direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Michihiro SHIMIZU, Kazuyuki MORIMOTO, Toru MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230170735Abstract: A mobile printer includes: a roll body accommodating portion accommodating a roll body on which recording paper is wound; a print head performing printing on the recording paper; a transport unit pulling out the recording paper from the roll body and transporting the recording paper to the print head; a cutting unit cutting the recording paper; a power supply unit supplying a drive voltage signal to the print head, the transport unit, and the cutting unit; and a housing covering the roll body accommodating portion, the print head, the transport unit, the cutting unit, and the power supply unit, in which the power supply unit has a power receiving module receiving a signal based on a power supply voltage signal from an outside by a non-contact power supply, and the power receiving module is fixed to a power supply surface of the housing by an adhesive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Michihiro SHIMIZU, Kazuyuki MORIMOTO, Toru MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230170736Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile printer in which a shortest distance between a power receiving circuit that outputs a first base drive voltage signal and a first surface is shorter than a shortest distance between the power receiving circuit and a second surface, a shortest distance between a USB-Type-C receptacle connector and the first surface is shorter than a shortest distance between the USB-Type-C receptacle connector and the second surface, a shortest distance between a power supply terminal and the first surface is shorter than a shortest distance between the power supply terminal and the second surface, and a shortest distance between first signal wiring which electrically couples the control unit and the transport unit and the first surface is longer than a shortest distance between the first signal wiring and the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Michihiro SHIMIZU, Kazuyuki MORIMOTO, Toru MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230166545Abstract: A mobile printer includes a roll body accommodating portion accommodating a roll body on which recording paper is wound, a print head performing printing on the recording paper, a transport unit pulling out the recording paper from the roll body and transporting the recording paper, a power supply unit supplying a drive voltage signal to the print head and the transport unit, a housing covering the roll body accommodating portion, the print head, the transport unit, and the power supply unit, and a static electricity removal film, in which the power supply unit has a power receiving module receiving a signal based on a power supply voltage signal from an outside by a non-contact power supply, and at least a part of the static electricity removal film is located between the roll body accommodating portion and the power receiving module and adjacent to the power receiving module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Michihiro SHIMIZU, Kazuyuki MORIMOTO, Toru MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230144417Abstract: A communication cable 1 includes a conductor 11 for transmitting electric signals and an outer layer 15 that is disposed outside the conductor 11 and contains an organic polymer. The communication cable 1 has at least one of a first form in which the outer layer 15 contains a chloride-forming flame retardant capable of forming a chloride and a second form in which an inner layer 13 containing an organic polymer and a chloride-forming flame retardant capable of forming a chloride is further provided between the outer layer 15 and the conductor 11. The outer layer 15 contains a first organic polymer and a second organic polymer having a higher tensile modulus than the first organic polymer, and the overall organic polymer component constituting the outer layer 15 has a tensile modulus of at least 100 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Yuta YASUYOSHI, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Toru SHIMIZU, Ryoma UEGAKI, Kinji TAGUCHI, Takaki ENDO
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Patent number: 11644102Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: DENSO DAISHIN CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Takeuchi, Toru Shimizu, Satoshi Nagasaka, Katsuhisa Saito
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Patent number: 11631596Abstract: In order to provide a concentration control apparatus that, without adding any new sensors or the like, makes it possible to accurately estimate a quantity of source consumed inside a vaporization tank, and to perform highly accurate concentration control in accordance with the remaining quantity of source, there is provided a concentration control apparatus that, in a vaporizer that is equipped with at least a vaporization tank containing a liquid or solid source, a carrier gas supply path that supplies a carrier gas to the vaporization tank, and a source gas extraction path along which flows a source gas which is created by vaporizing the source and is then extracted from the vaporization tank, controls a concentration of the source gas and includes a concentration monitor that is provided on the source gas extraction path, and outputs output signals in accordance with a concentration of the source gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Masakazu Minami
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Publication number: 20230049270Abstract: Provided is a communication cable provided with a coating layer that contains a powdery magnetic material and that can suppress the occurrence of a powdery substance containing the magnetic material when processing the coating layer. A communication cable 1 includes a conductor 2, an insulating coating 3 that covers an outer circumstance of the conductor 2, and a magnetic sheath layer 8 that covers an outer side of the insulating coating 3, and the magnetic sheath layer 8 contains the magnetic material and the magnetic material has a particle shape with an average particle diameter of not more than 50 ?m and an aspect ratio of not greater than 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Toru SHIMIZU, Kinji TAGUCHI, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Takaki ENDO, Ryoma UEGAKI, Yuta YASUYOSHI