Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Shimazu

Toshiaki Shimazu 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: 20220395149
    Abstract: A toilet device includes a toilet seat disposed on an upper side of a toilet; an image sensor provided on a back surface of the toilet seat and configured to image an inner space of a toilet bowl at time of excretion; an open-close acquiring device configured to acquire open-close information of the toilet seat; and an imaging controller configured to determine whether or not to image by the image sensor according to the open-close information of the toilet seat acquired by the open-close acquiring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIMAZU, Emi UEDA, Kenta TANAKA, Nobuhiro TAKI, Hiroshi NISHIGAKI, Masaaki NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20220237906
    Abstract: A determination device includes an image information acquirer configured to acquire image information of a subject image obtained by photographing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; an estimator configured to perform estimation regarding a determination matter relating to excretion by inputting the image information to a learned model, the learned model having learned a correspondence relationship between an image for learning and a determination result of the determination matter relating to excretion, the learned model learned by machine learning using a neural network, the image for learning representing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; and a determiner configured to perform determination regarding the determination matter of the subject image based on an estimation result obtained by the estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Emi UEDA, Nobuhiro TAKI, Kenta TANAKA, Yasuhiro SHIRAI, Hiroshige AOYAMA, Toshiaki SHIMAZU
  • Patent number: 4553470
    Abstract: An assistor for reducing stepping force of a clutch pedal, in which a push rod is inserted into an assistor casing freely movably in the axial direction, a casing outside end of the rod is interconnected to a clutch pedal, a casing inside portion of the rod is provided with a piston which divides the casing into first and second chambers, the first chamber intercommunicates with atmosphere, the second chamber intercommunicates freely changeably with atmosphere and a negative pressure source through a change-over valve mechanism, and the piston is interlocked with the change-over valve mechanism through the means of a negative-pressure setting spring so that negative pressure for reducing stepping force can be fed into the second chamber according to a shifted length of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Daikin Seisakusho
    Inventor: Toshiaki Shimazu