Patents by Inventor Yohei Ando
Yohei Ando 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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Publication number: 20150162613Abstract: A power storage device positive electrode which ensures development of a higher capacity at the initial stage of a charge/discharge process and a higher capacity density is provided. The power storage device positive electrode contains an electrically conductive polymer as a positive electrode substance, where the electrically conductive polymer is present in a particulate form having a median diameter of not greater than 5 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Ando, Yutaka Kishii, Masao Abe, Yoshihiro Uetani
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Publication number: 20150149075Abstract: A navigation device includes a GPS receiver, map data including tunnel data and periodically acquires a vehicle's speed to provide guidance on the current position N acquired at the GPS receiver, and when GPS radio waves become unreceivable after the vehicle passes a tunnel entrance, calculates a travel distance according to a vehicle speed and a time T up to a branch, and continues providing guidance on the current position up to the branch. After passing the branch, the navigation device suspends guidance, calculates a distance La between the branch and a tunnel exit, which is shorter, and when GPS radio waves are not received even after a movement distance from the branch exceeds distance La, after passing the branch, determines a road whose distance is longer as the road being traveled, and provides guidance on the current position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Masuda, Yohei Ando, Yusuke Oohashi
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Patent number: 8880342Abstract: A moving body position detection system including an unit acquiring dead reckoning navigation information including a moving body direction; a unit identifying a moving body position based on the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body; a unit predicting a predicted arrived position of the moving body after a predetermined interval from the position of the moving body based on the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body; a unit calculating a difference direction angle between a direction from the position of the moving body to the predicted position and the direction of the moving body; a unit correcting the difference direction angle if it is equal to or larger than a threshold; and a unit updating the moving body position based on the difference direction angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohei Ando, Takuma Yagi
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Patent number: 8868334Abstract: A moving body position detection system including a unit that acquires dead reckoning navigation information on a moving body; a unit that identifies a position on the moving body on a link based on the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body; a unit that acquires current position link data on a current position link and neighboring link data on a neighboring link. The current position link is a link on which the moving body position is located, and the neighboring link is connected to the current position link. The system also includes a unit that compares the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body with the current position link data and with the neighboring link data; and a unit that updates the position of the moving body based on a comparison result of the comparison unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohei Ando, Takuma Yagi
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Patent number: 8862010Abstract: A fixing device to perform a fixing process includes an endless, rotatable belt member; a nip-forming rotary member disposed outside a loop of the belt member; a fixing roller disposed at a backside of the fixing nip inside the loop of the belt member and around which the belt member is rotatably stretched; a heater to heat the belt member at a position different from a position where the belt member is rotatably stretched around the fixing roller; a temperature detector; a memory device to store an operational history of the heater; and a processor operatively connected to the heater to control the heater, before the recording sheet is passed through the fixing nip, to perform a warming-up operation to raise a temperature of the fixing roller at the backside of the fixing nip based on the operational history of the heater stored in the memory device.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Yohei Ando
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Patent number: 8843340Abstract: Track information generating devices, methods, and programs acquire a self-contained navigation track of a vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of self-contained navigation information, and acquire a GPS track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of GPS information. The devices, methods, and programs compare the self-contained navigation track with the GPS track to correct the self-contained navigation information so as to reduce a difference between the self-contained navigation track and the GPS track.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Oohashi, Daisuke Sakaki, Yohei Ando
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Publication number: 20140220438Abstract: The invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a cathode and an anode arranged so as to be opposite to each other, and an electrolyte layer put therebetween; wherein the cathode comprises: (a) a conductive polymer and (b) at least one selected from the group consisting of a polycarboxylic acid and a metal salt thereof, and wherein the anode comprises a material into which a base metal or ions thereof can be inserted and from which a base metal or ions thereof can be extracted. The invention further provides a cathode sheet for use in the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery mentioned above.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Abe, Akira Otani, Yujiro Kawashima, Yoshihiro Uetani, Hiroyoshi Take, Yutaka Kishii, Aimi Matsuura, Yuki Kajisa, Yohei Ando
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Patent number: 8793090Abstract: Track information generating devices, methods, and programs acquire a self-contained navigation track of a vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of self-contained navigation information, acquire a matching track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of information determined through a map matching process is determined as a road the vehicle is traveling, and acquire a degree of reliability of the matching track. The devices, methods, and programs acquire a GPS track that is a track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of GPS information, acquire a degree of reliability of the GPS track, and set the one of the GPS track and the matching track having a higher degree of reliability as a correction target track to correct the self-contained navigation information so as to reduce a difference between the self-contained navigation track and the correction target track.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Oohashi, Daisuke Sakaki, Yohei Ando
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Publication number: 20140186703Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode for a power storage device, which has an excellent discharge characteristic irrespective of an oxidized state of polyaniline as a positive active material and which is excellent in storability and handleability. The positive electrode for a power storage device includes polyaniline, where a ratio of a polyaniline oxidized body in the positive electrode is 0.01 to 75% to the entire polyaniline.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei ANDO, Hiroyoshi TAKE, Aimi MATSUURA, Masao ABE, Yoshihiro UETANI
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Publication number: 20140075020Abstract: A storage unit of a server device stores first identification information on a power feeding device and stores a layout drawing. The layout drawing is a drawing in which a first image indicating the power feeding device is located at a first position that corresponds to the positional information in the real space. A receiving unit receives, from the power feeding device, first data that includes the first identification information on the power feeding device and second identification information on an information processing apparatus to which the power feeding device feeds the electric power. An update unit updates the layout drawing by locating a second image indicating the information processing apparatus identified by the received second identification information at a second position that is within a predetermined area of the first position of the power feeding device identified by the first identification information included in the first data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Masato TAKAHASHI, Yohei Ando, Yuya Akimoto
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Publication number: 20140063545Abstract: A server device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a first information processing apparatus that is connected via a network, identification information on a second information processing apparatus that is connected via a network and that is an object to be remotely controlled; a storage unit that previously stores the identification information on the second information processing apparatus and a program for remotely controlling the second information processing apparatus associated with each other; and an execution unit that executes the program that is related to the acquired identification information, wherein the execution unit includes: a receiving unit that receives, from the first information processing apparatus, a control signal for controlling the second information processing apparatus that is identified by the acquired identification information; and a transmitting unit that transmits the received control signal to the second information processing apparatus that is identified by thType: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Yohei Ando, Yuya Akimoto
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Publication number: 20130245936Abstract: A moving body position detection system including an unit acquiring dead reckoning navigation information including a moving body direction; a unit identifying a moving body position based on the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body; a unit predicting a predicted arrived position of the moving body after a predetermined interval from the position of the moving body based on the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body; a unit calculating a difference direction angle between a direction from the position of the moving body to the predicted position and the direction of the moving body; a unit correcting the difference direction angle if it is equal to or larger than a threshold; and a unit updating the moving body position based on the difference direction angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Yohei ANDO, Takuma YAGI
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Publication number: 20130245934Abstract: A moving body position detection system including a unit that acquires dead reckoning navigation information on a moving body; a unit that identifies a position on the moving body on a link based on the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body; a unit that acquires current position link data on a current position link and neighboring link data on a neighboring link. The current position link is a link on which the moving body position is located, and the neighboring link is connected to the current position link. The system also includes a unit that compares the dead reckoning navigation information on the moving body with the current position link data and with the neighboring link data; and a unit that updates the position of the moving body based on a comparison result of the comparison unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Yohei ANDO, Takuma YAGI
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Patent number: 8498813Abstract: Devices, methods, and programs identify a leading candidate point by calculating a cost for candidate points on a road, and match a vehicle position to the identified leading candidate point. The devices, methods, and programs acquire an estimated vehicle position based on dead reckoning navigation, acquire a GPS position of the vehicle, and set the candidate points for the vehicle position on nearby roads. The devices, methods, and programs calculate for each candidate point a normal cost of the candidate point with respect to the estimated position and a correction cost that corresponds to a value L1 (the value L1 being found by subtracting a width W of a road having the candidate point from a distance d between the GPS position and the candidate point), and identify the leading candidate point based on a total cost of the normal cost and the correction cost for each candidate point.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Oohashi, Daisuke Sakaki, Yohei Ando
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Patent number: 8396659Abstract: Devices, methods, and programs provide vehicle navigation. A speculative heading error is acquired that corresponds to the reliability of the vehicle heading, which corresponds to an estimated vehicle position that was calculated using a previous vehicle position as a reference. A best candidate position or the estimated vehicle position is set as the vehicle position depending on whether a heading difference between the vehicle heading and a heading when the estimated point is corrected to the best candidate position falls within the speculative heading error. Therefore, false matching can be further reduced and prompt recovery is possible even if a false match occurs.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohei Ando, Daisuke Sakaki, Yusuke Oohashi
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Publication number: 20130022366Abstract: A fixing device to perform a fixing process includes an endless, rotatable belt member; a nip-forming rotary member disposed outside a loop of the belt member; a fixing roller disposed at a backside of the fixing nip inside the loop of the belt member and around which the belt member is rotatably stretched; a heater to heat the belt member at a position different from a position where the belt member is rotatably stretched around the fixing roller; a temperature detector; a memory device to store an operational history of the heater; and a processor operatively connected to the heater to control the heater, before the recording sheet is passed through the fixing nip, to perform a warming-up operation to raise a temperature of the fixing roller at the backside of the fixing nip based on the operational history of the heater stored in the memory device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Yohei Ando
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Patent number: 8332149Abstract: Devices, methods, and programs correct an estimated path found by dead reckoning navigation. A point correlation value s is calculated based on a distance to a reliability circle whose radius is a speculative maximum error e that indicates a distance of an error range with respect to a GPS position. A correlation value Sp of an estimated path and a correlation value Sq of a candidate path are calculated from cumulative values of the point correlation values s. A correction that moves the estimated path is not performed if the correlation value Sq of the candidate path becomes worse than the correlation value Sp of the estimated path, and the correction of the estimated path is performed if the correlation value Sq of the candidate path does not become worse than the correlation value Sp of the estimated path. Thus, false matching can be further reduced, and the travel path can be suitably corrected.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Oohashi, Daisuke Sakaki, Yohei Ando
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Publication number: 20110320156Abstract: Track information generating devices, methods, and programs acquire a self-contained navigation track of a vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of self-contained navigation information, acquire a matching track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of information determined through a map matching process is determined as a road the vehicle is traveling, and acquire a degree of reliability of the matching track. The devices, methods, and programs acquire a GPS track that is a track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of GPS information, acquire a degree of reliability of the GPS track, and set the one of the GPS track and the matching track having a higher degree of reliability as a correction target track to correct the self-contained navigation information so as to reduce a difference between the self-contained navigation track and the correction target track.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke OOHASHI, Daisuke SAKAKI, Yohei ANDO
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Publication number: 20110320155Abstract: Track information generating devices, methods, and programs acquire a self-contained navigation track of a vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of self-contained navigation information, and acquire a GPS track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of GPS information. The devices, methods, and programs compare the self-contained navigation track with the GPS track to correct the self-contained navigation information so as to reduce a difference between the self-contained navigation track and the GPS track.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke OOHASHI, Daisuke SAKAKI, Yohei ANDO
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Publication number: 20110320122Abstract: Track information generating devices, methods, and programs acquire a self-contained navigation track of a vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of self-contained navigation information, and acquire a GPS track that is a track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of GPS information. The devices, methods, and compare the self-contained navigation track with the GPS track to acquire a first correction amount for obtaining the highest degree of coincidence between the self-contained navigation track and the GPS track and then correct the self-contained navigation information using a second correction amount that is smaller than the first correction amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke OOHASHI, Daisuke SAKAKI, Yohei ANDO