Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Kamii

Toshihiro Kamii 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: 11313563
    Abstract: A heating cooker to manage surface and inside temperatures of food. A heating portion heats inside of a heating space where the food material is placed. At least one processor controls the heating portion to perform driving for high-temperature heating after performing driving for low-temperature heating. During the driving for low-temperature heating, the heating portion may heat the inside of the heating space such that an average increase velocity of a reference temperature of the food material is lower than an average increase velocity of the reference temperature of the food material during the driving for high-temperature heating. During the driving for high-temperature heating, the heating portion may heat the inside of the heating space such that an average increase velocity of the reference temperature of the food material is higher than the average increase velocity of the reference temperature of the food material during the driving for low-temperature heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Toshihiro Kamii, Yurika Kida, Katsunori Araki, Kahoru Tsujimoto, Kazuo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11274389
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a top load washing machine having excellent functions while saving water. The washing machine may include a housing having a drain path installed at the bottom, a water collecting tub supported on the housing in the inside of the housing, and a rotating tub rotating on a shaft extending vertically in the inside of the water collecting tub. The rotating tub may include an outlet opening to the lower portion of a body member that can store water independently from the water collecting tub. The water collecting tub may include a first drain hole opening to the inside space of the water collecting tub, and a second drain hole communicating with the outlet. The drain path may include a first path connected to the first drain hole, and a second path connected to the second drain hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Uetsuhara, Takehiero Nakanishi, Minsu Kim, Shigeki Hayashi, Shin Kagami, Tomoyuki Okuno, Toshihiro Kamii
  • Patent number: 11058280
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is useful as a stored object detector and a method of detecting stored objects configured to capture an image a movable storage portion, and objects stored in the storage portion, and configured to acquire storage information including at least one of position, size and quantity of the stored object based on the captured image. In addition, disclosed herein is a dishwasher configured to identify at least storage area of dish stored in a dish storage basket. It is possible to estimate a position of a basket, although the number of feature points is small. Therefore, when installing a detection indicator corresponding to the feature point, which is separated from the general configuration, to the basket, it is not required to install a large number of detection indicator, and thus it is possible to improve the appearance of the dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yoshimoto, Katsunori Araki, Hisashi Kawasaki, Toshihiro Kamii, Kazuo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10883215
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a washing machine includes a rotating tub configured to accommodate laundry, a water supply pipe configured to spray water over a surface of the laundry. The washing machine also includes a controller configured to execute a water supply cycle in which an operation of each of the rotating tub and the water supply pipe is controlled and water is supplied to the rotating tub. The washing machine further includes a wash cycle in which the laundry is washed and the controller executes a first cycle in which the rotating tub is rotated faster than a rotational speed in the wash cycle so as to discharge air contained inside the laundry before the wash cycle is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takashima, Takehiro Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Okuno, Toshihiro Kamii, Katsuyuki Shimakage
  • Patent number: 10876249
    Abstract: The present invention to provide a dryer having high drying efficiency and possible to energy saving operation. A controller (3) of the dryer (D) include an information receiver (33) configured to collect drying object information about a state of the Object© to be dried in the drum (2). A controller (3) of the dryer (D) controls an output of the heater to have an output per unit time lower than a predetermined output of normal based on a state of the object to be dried collected by the information receiver, and controls a drying ending time based on a state of the object to be dried and an output of the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kamii, Hisashi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200278116
    Abstract: A heating cooker to manage surface and inside temperatures of food. A heating portion heats inside of a heating space where the food material is placed. At least one processor controls the heating portion to perform driving for high-temperature heating after performing driving for low-temperature heating. During the driving for low-temperature heating, the heating portion may heat the inside of the heating space such that an average increase velocity of a reference temperature of the food material is lower than an average increase velocity of the reference temperature of the food material during the driving for high-temperature heating. During the driving for high-temperature heating, the heating portion may heat the inside of the heating space such that an average increase velocity of the reference temperature of the food material is higher than the average increase velocity of the reference temperature of the food material during the driving for low-temperature heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro KAMII, Yurika KIDA, Katsunori ARAKI, Kahoru TSUJIMOTO, Kazuo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10753031
    Abstract: Provided is a washing machine motor capable of efficiently generating torque by improving a winding factor of coils with a relatively simple configuration. The washing machine motor (12) has an outer rotor (20), an inner rotor (30), and a stator (60). The outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) share coils (63) of the stator (60), and a composite current is supplied to the coils (63) such that the outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) are independently driven. The outer rotor (20) has forty eight outer magnets (24) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The inner rotor (30) has forty-two inner magnets (34) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The stator (60) has thirty-six I-shaped cores (61) and the coils (63).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Yukinori Nakagawa, Kenji Kitajima, Toshihiro Kamii, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Nobuharu Nishikoori, Yasumasa Nagasaki, Takehiro Nakanishi, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Minoru Yoshida, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Tomoyuki Okuno, Katsuyuki Shimakage, Hiroshi Wanatabe, Yuji Akita, Yoshinori Takashima
  • Publication number: 20200080246
    Abstract: Provided is a washing machine motor capable of efficiently generating torque by improving a winding factor of coils with a relatively simple configuration. The washing machine motor (12) has an outer rotor (20), an inner rotor (30), and a stator (60). The outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) share coils (63) of the stator (60), and a composite current is supplied to the coils (63) such that the outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) are independently driven. The outer rotor (20) has forty eight outer magnets (24) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The inner rotor (30) has forty-two inner magnets (34) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The stator (60) has thirty-six I-shaped cores (61) and the coils (63).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYAKE, Yukinori NAKAGAWA, Kenji KITAJIMA, Toshihiro KAMII, Hidekazu FUNAKOSHI, Nobuharu NISHIKOORI, Yasumasa NAGASAKI, Takehiro NAKANISHI, Hiroshi KATSUMOTO, Minoru YOSHIDA, Yasuyuki SONODA, Masaki OSHIGE, Tomoyuki OKUNO, Katsuyuki SHIMAKAGE, Hiroshi WANATABE, Yuji AKITA, Yoshinori TAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20190200841
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is useful as a stored object detector and a method of detecting stored objects configured to capture an image a movable storage portion, and objects stored in the storage portion, and configured to acquire storage information including at least one of position, size and quantity of the stored object based on the captured image. In addition, disclosed herein is a dishwasher configured to identify at least storage area of dish stored in a dish storage basket. It is possible to estimate a position of a basket, although the number of feature points is small. Therefore, when installing a detection indicator corresponding to the feature point, which is separated from the general configuration, to the basket, it is not required to install a large number of detection indicator, and thus it is possible to improve the appearance of the dishwasher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Morio YOSHIMOTO, Katsunori ARAKI, Hisashi KAWASAKI, Toshihiro KAMII, Kazuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20190040567
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a top load washing machine having excellent functions while saving water. The washing machine may include a housing having a drain path installed at the bottom, a water collecting tub supported on the housing in the inside of the housing, and a rotating tub rotating on a shaft extending vertically in the inside of the water collecting tub. The rotating tub may include an outlet opening to the lower portion of a body member that can store water independently from the water collecting tub. The water collecting tub may include a first drain hole opening to the inside space of the water collecting tub, and a second drain hole communicating with the outlet. The drain path may include a first path connected to the first drain hole, and a second path connected to the second drain hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro Uetsuhara, Takehiero Nakanishi, Minsu Kim, Shigeki Hayashi, Shin Kagami, Tomoyuki Okuno, Toshihiro Kamii
  • Publication number: 20180282934
    Abstract: The present invention to provide a dryer having high drying efficiency and possible to energy saving operation. A controller (3) of the dryer (D) include an information receiver (33) configured to collect drying object information about a state of the Object© to be dried in the drum (2). A controller (3) of the dryer (D) controls an output of the heater to have an output per unit time lower than a predetermined output of normal based on a state of the object to be dried collected by the information receiver, and controls a drying ending time based on a state of the object to be dried and an output of the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro KAMII, Kawasaki HISASHI
  • Patent number: 10048853
    Abstract: When a screen displayed on a display includes a scrollable scroll region, and a first condition is satisfied which defines that the scroll region is not scrolled to a scroll position at which the last part of the displayed content in the scroll region is displayed on a display, a control module executes a first control of setting a time limit to be longer as compared to a case where the screen does not include the scroll region or not darkening or turning off the display based on the time limit. On the other hand, when a screen displayed on the display includes a scroll region, and the first condition is not satisfied, the control module executes a second control of setting the time limit to be shorter as compared to the first control or darkening or turning off the display based on the time limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kamii, Atsushi Suzuki, Keisuke Nagata
  • Publication number: 20170247826
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a washing machine includes a rotating tub configured to accommodate laundry, a water supply pipe configured to spray water over a surface of the laundry. The washing machine also includes a controller configured to execute a water supply cycle in which an operation of each of the rotating tub and the water supply pipe is controlled and water is supplied to the rotating tub. The washing machine further includes a wash cycle in which the laundry is washed and the controller executes a first cycle in which the rotating tub is rotated faster than a rotational speed in the wash cycle so as to discharge air contained inside the laundry before the wash cycle is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takashima, Takehiro Nakanishi, Tomoyuki Okuno, Toshihiro Kamii, Katsuyuki Shimakage
  • Patent number: 9565638
    Abstract: A mobile telephone includes a communication module, and a control module configured to perform background communication with respect to an application via the communication module. The control module restricts background communication, based on an activation history of the application in foreground. The control module includes a determination module configured to determine whether background communication is unnecessary based on the activation history of the application in foreground with respect to each of the applications, and a setting switching module configured to switch communication setting of the application, of which background communication is determined to be unnecessary, from a first setting of permitting the background communication to a second setting of restricting the background communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Hirako, Shinichi Onaru, Saki Yamasaki, Toshihiro Kamii, Kana Masaki
  • Patent number: 9521229
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and methods are disclosed. A storage module stores at least first contact information including a first phone number and second contact information including a second phone number. A control module causes the display module to display a first image associated with the first phone number and a second image not associated with the phone number stored in the storage module, makes a call at the first phone number, if a first operation for selecting the first image is accepted, causes the display module to display at least the second contact information, if a second operation for selecting the second image is accepted, and causes the display module to display a third image associated with the second phone number instead of the second image, if a third operation for selecting the second contact information is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kamii, Hideo Okumura
  • Patent number: 9438708
    Abstract: A cellular phone includes a first display; a second display; and a CPU which executes a first processing and a second processing according to an input with respect to a display detected by the panel sensors, and displays screens based on the first processing and the second processing on the display, respectively. The CPU executes a control for distinguishing the display displaying the screen in an active state from the display displaying the screen in an inactive state with respect to at least one of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kamii, Keiko Mikami
  • Publication number: 20160018964
    Abstract: When a screen displayed on a display includes a scrollable scroll region, and a first condition is satisfied which defines that the scroll region is not scrolled to a scroll position at which the last part of the displayed content in the scroll region is displayed on a display, a control module executes a first control of setting a time limit to be longer as compared to a case where the screen does not include the scroll region or not darkening or turning off the display based on the time limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Toshihiro KAMII, Atsushi SUZUKI, Keisuke NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20150253953
    Abstract: A CPU displays on display surfaces a cancel screen for cancelling the key lock function, and moves an object image depending on movement of a touch position when the object image contained in the cancel screen is touched by the user and the touch position is moved. Furthermore, the CPU sets a cancel area of the key lock function on the cancel screen so that a direction in which the object image is moved to cancel the key lock function is not limited to one direction, and cancels the key lock function when the touch position to the object image is moved to the cancel area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Keiko MIKAMI, Toshihiro KAMII
  • Publication number: 20150201379
    Abstract: [Summary] A mobile telephone includes a communication module, and a control module configured to perform background communication with respect to an application via the communication module. The control module restricts background communication, based on an activation history of the application in foreground. The control module includes a determination module configured to determine whether background communication is unnecessary based on the activation history of the application in foreground with respect to each of the applications, and a setting switching module configured to switch communication setting of the application, of which background communication is determined to be unnecessary, from a first setting of permitting the background communication to a second setting of restricting the background communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi HIRAKO, Shinichi ONARU, Saki YAMASAKI, Toshihiro KAMII, Kana MASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150201056
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and methods are disclosed. A storage module stores at least first contact information including a first phone number and second contact information including a second phone number. A control module causes the display module to display a first image associated with the first phone number and a second image not associated with the phone number stored in the storage module, makes a call at the first phone number, if a first operation for selecting the first image is accepted, causes the display module to display at least the second contact information, if a second operation for selecting the second image is accepted, and causes the display module to display a third image associated with the second phone number instead of the second image, if a third operation for selecting the second contact information is accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiro KAMII, Hideo OKUMURA