Patents by Inventor Yu Matsumoto
Yu Matsumoto 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: 12149661Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Yuya Yasuda, Takuma Tachibana, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20240360577Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cathode electrode in which selectivity of hydrogen decreases and selectivity of a carbon dioxide reduction product increases in a catalytic reaction producing carbon monoxide, an olefinic hydrocarbon such as ethylene, and an alcohol such as ethanol by a reduction reaction of carbon dioxide. A cathode electrode that electrically reduces carbon dioxide, including: a first layer containing cuprous oxide, copper, and at least one additional metal element selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, zinc, cadmium, and tin; and a second layer formed on the first layer and containing a constituent element composed of at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of copper, silver, gold, zinc, cadmium, and tin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, CHIYODA CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Yu MIMURA, Kiyoshi YAMAMOTO, Masakazu SUGIYAMA, Tsutomu MINEGISHI, Jun MATSUMOTO, Dai TAKEDA
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Patent number: 12126776Abstract: An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiro Ono, Takayuki Fukushima, Kazuki Matsuo, Takuma Tachibana, Yuya Yasuda, Akiyuki Mitamura, Akira Matsumoto, Akira Urita, Norikazu Hishinuma, Takatsugu Nakamura, Yu Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20240347565Abstract: An electronic component that includes a base body with an electronic device placed on a placement surface, and a lid including a surface facing the electronic device and fixed to the base body, is provided. On the surface of the lid, a thin film in contact with the surface is arranged. In an orthogonal projection with respect to the placement surface, the thin film comprises a first portion including a region which overlaps the electronic device, and a second portion arranged so as to surround the first portion and including an outer edge of the thin film, and the second portion applies, to a portion of the lid in contact with the second portion, a force in a direction from a center of the thin film toward the outer edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: YU KATASE, SUSUMU MATSUMOTO, SATORU HAMASAKI, TAIKI SHITAMICHI
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Publication number: 20240337420Abstract: A heat pump system includes a heat pump cycle, a heating unit, a low-temperature side heat medium circuit, and a control unit. The heat pump cycle includes a compressor, a condenser, and an evaporator. The heating unit heats ventilation air with heat released form refrigerant in the condenser. The low-temperature side heat medium circuit circulates a low-temperature side heat medium such that the refrigerant in the evaporator absorbs heat of the low-temperature side heat medium, and includes a heat source device and a heat amount adjustment unit. The control unit causes an amount of heat transfer in the heating unit for heating the ventilation air to approach a predetermined target value via adjustment in temperature of the low-temperature side heat medium by controlling a rotation speed of the compressor and an operation of at least one of the heat source device and the heat amount adjustment unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2024Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: Masanari NUMATA, Yu OFUNE, Satoshi ITO, Naoki KATO, Nobuharu KAKEHASHI, Tatsuhito MATSUMOTO, Kaoru OHTSUKA, Yasuhiro OI, Hidefumi AIKAWA, Ryo MICHIKAWAUCHI
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Publication number: 20240243448Abstract: An in-vehicle energy storage apparatus 50 includes: an energy storage cell 62; a current interruption device 53 configured to interrupt a current to the energy storage cell 62; and a control unit 130, wherein the control unit 130 is configured to, in a case where the energy storage apparatus 50 is charged with electricity in a not-in-vehicle state, interrupt the current to the energy storage cell 62 by the current interruption device 53 after the energy storage apparatus 50 is charged with electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Yu MATSUMOTO, Masaki OYA
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Publication number: 20240239157Abstract: A system includes: a low-temperature circuit having a chiller and in which a cooling water circulates therethrough; a heat dissipation unit for dissipating heat to an air; a refrigeration circuit in which a refrigerant circulates and for absorbing heat from the cooling water to the refrigerant at the chiller and dissipating heat from the refrigerant at the heat dissipation unit; a ratio adjusting device for adjusting a heat dissipation unit passing ratio; and a controller for controlling an heat transfer amount adjusting apparatus capable of adjusting the heat transfer amount in the refrigeration circuit and the ratio adjusting device. If it is predicted that the temperature of the cooling water decreases, the controller controls the apparatus so that the heat transfer amount is increased and controls the ratio adjusting device so that the ratio is decreased, before the temperature of the cooling water flowing through the chiller decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo MICHIKAWAUCHI, Hidefumi AIKAWA, Masanari NUMATA, Yu OFUNE, Satoshi ITO, Naoki KATO, Tatsuhito MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20240239158Abstract: A system includes a refrigeration circuit, low-temperature circuit and controller. The refrigeration circuit includes: a tiller for absorbing heat from a colling water to a refrigerant; and a condenser for releasing heat from the refrigerant to an outside, and realizes a refrigeration cycle by circulating the refrigerant therethrough. The low-temperature circuit includes the tiller and an external heat exchanger for absorbing heat from an outside to the first heat medium, and circulate the cooling water therethrough. The controller can change a heat absorption amount of the refrigerant at the tiller. The controller controls the device so that a change in the heat absorption amount of the refrigerant at the first heat exchanger in accordance with a change in a temperature of the first heat medium is reduced, if the temperature of the cooling water flowing through the first heat exchanger changes by a reference value or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo MICHIKAWAUCHI, Hidefumi AIKAWA, Masanari NUMATA, Yu OFUNE, Satoshi ITO, Naoki KATO, Tatsuhito MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20240235938Abstract: A communication apparatus which is capable of transferring setting information relating to communication with an information processing apparatus to a new communication apparatus. A first communication apparatus is communicable with the information processing apparatus. Based on instruction information sent from the information processing apparatus to the first communication apparatus, setting information relating to communication between the information processing apparatus and a second communication apparatus that is different from the first communication apparatus is sent from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventor: Yu Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20240137275Abstract: A communication apparatus which is capable of transferring setting information relating to communication with an information processing apparatus to a new communication apparatus. A first communication apparatus is communicable with the information processing apparatus. Based on instruction information sent from the information processing apparatus to the first communication apparatus, setting information relating to communication between the information processing apparatus and a second communication apparatus that is different from the first communication apparatus is sent from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventor: Yu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11854316Abstract: A management device for an energy storage device mounted on a vehicle includes a management unit, a component that operates according to an instruction from the management unit and that generates an operation sound, and an acquisition unit that acquires information. The management unit operates the component and diagnoses a failure of the component when the information acquired by the acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition indicating a possibility that no person stays within the vehicle and within a certain distance from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Yu Matsumoto, Kiyohiro Fujita
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Publication number: 20230393205Abstract: Provided are a computer program, a determination device, and a determination method. A computer is caused to execute a process of estimating a state of at least one of an energy storage device and a charge system by executing a simulation using a battery model for simulating the energy storage device and a charge system model for simulating the charge system that charges the energy storage device and determining the compatibility between the energy storage device and the charge system based on the estimated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Masaki OYA, Yu MATSUMOTO, Shinichi NAMITOKO, Seiji TAKAI, Eiji HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230382231Abstract: A computer is caused to execute a process of; executing, for a system including an energy storage device and a powered unit driven by power supplied from the energy storage device wherein the energy storage device including a switch for switching between energized and non-energized states and having a switch self-diagnosis function, a simulation regarding switch self-diagnosis using a battery model for simulating the energy storage device and a powered-unit model for simulating the powered unit; and determining compatibility between the energy storage device and the powered unit based on an execution result of the simulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Yu MATSUMOTO, Seiji TAKAI, Eiji HAYASHI, Shinichi NAMITOKO, Masaki OYA
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Patent number: 11591685Abstract: [Object] What is provided is a manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet capable of further promoting alloying of zinc plating with the steel sheet. [Resolution Means] A manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet, including: forming on a surface of a steel sheet after hot rolling and pickling which contains, by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.350%, Si: 0.001% to 2.500% or P: 0.001% to 0.100%, or combination thereof, Mn: 0.10% to 3.00%, S: 0.001% to 0.010%, N: 0.0010% to 0.0065%, and sol. Al: 0.001% to 0.800% with a remainder being Fe and impurities, grooves having an opening surface width of 10 ?m to 25 ?m and a depth of 10 ?m to 30 ?m at intervals of 20 ?m to 500 ?m; cold rolling the steel sheet at a rolling reduction of 30% or more; reduction annealing the steel sheet after the cold rolling; immersing the steel sheet in a hot-dip galvanizing bath containing 0.10 mass % to 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Matsumoto, Shigeru Hashimoto, Koichi Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20210209872Abstract: A management device for an energy storage device mounted on a vehicle includes a management unit, a component that operates according to an instruction from the management unit and that generates an operation sound, and an acquisition unit that acquires information. The management unit operates the component and diagnoses a failure of the component when the information acquired by the acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition indicating a possibility that no person stays within the vehicle and within a certain distance from the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Yu MATSUMOTO, Kiyohiro FUJITA
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Publication number: 20210085711Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for preventing and/or treating iron-deficiency anemia in patients with hypermenorrhea and/or patients with hypermenorrhea-associated gynecologic diseases. According to the present invention, an agent containing ferric citrate as an active ingredient for preventing and/or treating iron-deficiency anemia in patients with hypermenorrhea and/or patients with hypermenorrhea-associated gynecologic diseases can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Yu Matsumoto, Kojo Arita, Hironori Mitsui, Koji Hanaki
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Patent number: 10912838Abstract: The present invention provides a vesicle, a conjugate, a composition comprising the vesicle or the conjugate, for use in delivering a drug to the brain, and a method for administering the same. The composition of the present invention is a composition for administration to a subject according to a dosing regimen, comprising a carrier for drug delivery, wherein the dosing regimen comprises administering the composition to a subject who has been fasted or caused to have hypoglycemia and inducing an increase in blood glucose level in the subject, and the carrier is modified at the outer surface thereof with a GLUT1 ligand.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Yasutaka Anraku, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Kanjiro Miyata, Takehiko Ishii, Yu Matsumoto, Yu Fukusato, Akihiro Mizoguchi, Takanori Yokota, Hiroya Kuwahara, Kazutaka Nishina, Hidehiro Mizusawa
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Publication number: 20200325569Abstract: [Object] What is provided is a manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet capable of further promoting alloying of zinc plating with the steel sheet. [Resolution Means] A manufacturing method of a galvannealed steel sheet, including: forming on a surface of a steel sheet after hot rolling and pickling which contains, by mass %, C: 0.001% to 0.350%, Si: 0.001% to 2.500% or P: 0.001% to 0.100%, or combination thereof, Mn: 0.10% to 3.00%, S: 0.001% to 0.010%, N: 0.0010% to 0.0065%, and sol. Al: 0.001% to 0.800% with a remainder being Fe and impurities, grooves having an opening surface width of 10 ?m to 25 ?m and a depth of 10 ?m to 30 ?m at intervals of 20 ?m to 500 ?m; cold rolling the steel sheet at a rolling reduction of 30% or more; reduction annealing the steel sheet after the cold rolling; immersing the steel sheet in a hot-dip galvanizing bath containing 0.10 mass % to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yu MATSUMOTO, Shigeru HASHIMOTO, Koichi NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20180185501Abstract: The present invention provides a vesicle, a conjugate, a composition comprising the vesicle or the conjugate, for use in delivering a drug to the brain, and a method for administering the same. The composition of the present invention is a composition for administration to a subject according to a dosing regimen, comprising a carrier for drug delivery, wherein the dosing regimen comprises administering the composition to a subject who has been fasted or caused to have hypoglycemia and inducing an increase in blood glucose level in the subject, and the carrier is modified at the outer surface thereof with a GLUT1 ligand.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicants: The University of Tokyo, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental UniversityInventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Yasutaka Anraku, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Kanjiro Miyata, Takehiko Ishii, Yu Matsumoto, Yu Fukusato, Akihiro Mizoguchi, Takanori Yokota, Hiroya Kuwahara, Kazutaka Nishina, Hidehiro Mizusawa
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Patent number: 9937263Abstract: The present invention provides a vesicle, a conjugate, a composition comprising the vesicle or the conjugate, for use in delivering a drug to the brain, and a method for administering the same. The composition of the present invention is a composition for administration to a subject according to a dosing regimen, comprising a carrier for drug delivery, wherein the dosing regimen comprises administering the composition to a subject who has been fasted or caused to have hypoglycemia and inducing an increase in blood glucose level in the subject, and the carrier is modified at the outer surface thereof with a GLUT1 ligand.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Yasutaka Anraku, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Kanjiro Miyata, Takehiko Ishii, Yu Matsumoto, Yu Fukusato, Akihiro Mizoguchi, Takanori Yokota, Hiroya Kuwahara, Kazutaka Nishina, Hidehiro Mizusawa