Patents by Inventor Yuji Shimizu

Yuji 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).

  • Publication number: 20220372187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition comprising an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with an ethylene unit content of 20 mol % or more and 60 mol % or less, a divalent metal hydroxide (B) and a monovalent metal compound (C), wherein a content of the divalent metal hydroxide (B) is 5 ppm or more and 5000 ppm or less, and a mass ratio (C/B) of the amount of the monovalent metal compound (C) in terms of the monovalent metal atom to the amount of the divalent metal hydroxide (B) in terms of the divalent metal atom is 0.025 to 100. Thus, there is provided a resin composition containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer having excellent long run property during melt molding and excellent color phase in long-term melt molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rina Hoshika, Yuji Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220258706
    Abstract: A wheeled vehicle's antilock brake system (ABS) control device has three kinds of control modes of a braking force oriented mode, a sideways force oriented swinging-motion suppression mode and a sideways force oriented swinging-motion enhancement mode each of which is an ABS control mode being selected by means of an ABS control mode selection unit; and the vehicle ABS control device is so arranged that, in accordance with an ABS control mode selected by the ABS control mode selection unit, target slip rates on each of the vehicle's wheels being set by a target slip-rate setting unit are transferred toward respective braking force orientation or sideways force orientation, thereby the behavior of a wheeled vehicle is stabilized at a time when the wheeled vehicle on which the vehicle ABS control device is mounted makes a turn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki SAKADANI, Toshihide SATAKE, Yuji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220212673
    Abstract: To provide a lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method which can determine an effective range of the approximated curve corresponding to the lane shape. A lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method detects relative positions of a series of marks or objects which are continuously arranged in front of an own vehicle, with respect to the own vehicle; calculates a curve which approximates the relative positions of the series of marks or objects with respect to the own vehicle; and when a plurality of curves are calculated, mutually compare shapes of plurality of curves and determines the curves corresponding to the lane shape and the effective range of the curves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide SATAKE, Fumiaki TAKAGI, Yuji SHIMIZU, Kazuhiro NISHIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20220184934
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-transmitting electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11 and an electroconductive part 13 provided on one surface of the light-transmitting base material 11, wherein the electroconductive part 13 includes a light-transmitting resin 15 and plural electroconductive fibers 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15, and the electroconductive part 13 can conduct electricity from the surface 13A of the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive fibers 16 as a whole are unevenly distributed on the light-transmitting base material side than the position HL, which is located at half the film thickness of the electroconductive part 13 in the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive part 13 has a surface resistance value of 200?/? or less, and the electroconductive film 10 has a haze value of 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Shoichiro OGUMI, Yoshimasa OGAWA, Eiji OOISHI, Yukimitsu IWATA, Yuji SHIMIZU, Ryota KITAYAMA, Hiroaki MUTOU
  • Publication number: 20220126551
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a conductive layered body having excellent solvent resistance and scratch resistance as well as a low haze value and a significantly high light transmittance. The present invention relates to a conductive layered body including, as an outermost layer thereof, a conductive layer containing a conductive fibrous filler, wherein the conductive layered body has a Martens hardness of 150 to 3,000 N/mm2 as measured at an indentation depth of 100 nm from a surface, and a ratio, in atomic percentage, of a conductive material element constituting the conductive fibrous filler on an outermost surface-side surface of the conductive layer is 0.15 to 5.00 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshimasa OGAWA, Yukimitsu IWATA, Yuji SHIMIZU, Eiji OOISHI, Shoichiro OGUMI, Norinaga NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11298925
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-transmitting electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11 and an electroconductive part 13 provided on one surface of the light-transmitting base material 11, wherein the electroconductive part 13 includes a light-transmitting resin 15 and plural electroconductive fibers 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15, and the electroconductive part 13 can conduct electricity from the surface 13A of the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive fibers 16 as a whole are unevenly distributed on the light-transmitting base material side than the position HL, which is located at half the film thickness of the electroconductive part 13 in the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive part 13 has a surface resistance value of 200?/? or less, and the electroconductive film 10 has a haze value of 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Ogumi, Yoshimasa Ogawa, Eiji Ooishi, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yuji Shimizu, Ryota Kitayama, Hiroaki Mutou
  • Publication number: 20220089155
    Abstract: A vehicle-to-vehicle distance control device includes a delay distance calculation unit and a delay distance compensation unit. In a running scene in which the velocity of a leading vehicle changes, a delay distance generated owing to a delay in a vehicle velocity control unit is calculated, and, while a delay distance compensation vehicle velocity command to compensate for the delay distance is considered for a vehicle velocity command, an actual vehicle-to-vehicle distance is controlled to be matched with a target track from an initial value of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance until arrival at a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance obtained after the leading vehicle accelerates/decelerates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji SHIMIZU, Kazuhiro NISHIWAKI, Masahiro IEZAWA
  • Patent number: 11247444
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a conductive layered body having excellent solvent resistance and scratch resistance as well as a low haze value and a significantly high light transmittance. The present invention relates to a conductive layered body including, as an outermost layer thereof, a conductive layer containing a conductive fibrous filler, wherein the conductive layered body has a Martens hardness of 150 to 3,000 N/mm2 as measured at an indentation depth of 100 nm from a surface, and a ratio, in atomic percentage, of a conductive material element constituting the conductive fibrous filler on an outermost surface-side surface of the conductive layer is 0.15 to 5.00 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ogawa, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yuji Shimizu, Eiji Ooishi, Shoichiro Ogumi, Norinaga Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11245556
    Abstract: To provide a correction method of resolver correction device and resolver correction device that can reduce rotation angle (the rotation speed) detection error caused by resolver. An excitation signal supply circuit supplies an excitation signal of an excitation frequency to the resolver during a normal operation, for supplying the excitation signals of a plurality of frequencies including the excitation frequency to the first phase shifter or the second phase shifter during a calibration operation. A shift amount searching circuit searches the first shift amount setting value for each frequency of the excitation signal such that the first shift amount becomes 45 degrees, and the second shift amount setting value for each frequency of the excitation signal such that the second shift amount becomes 135 degrees, while referring to the detection result of the phase difference detection circuit during the calibration operation, and stores in the correction table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yuji Shimizu, Akane Abe
  • Patent number: 11230287
    Abstract: A vehicle control device disclosed in the present disclosure includes: a first control unit configured to control a speed of the vehicle in accordance with the route distance and the set speed until the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit; a vehicle frontward detecting unit configured to detect road information about a road frontward of the vehicle; and a second control unit configured to change control content in the cruise control unit on the basis of a detection result from the vehicle frontward detecting unit, when the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Yamaguchi, Toshihide Satake, Yuji Shimizu, Kazuhiro Nishiwaki
  • Patent number: 10982977
    Abstract: A pulse signal generator suitable for generating a two-phase pulse signal required as information of a rotation angle of a motor from a motor control device is provided. According to an embodiment, the pulse signal generator includes: a compensation unit that outputs a compensation signal for compensating for the deviation between the angle information representing the rotation angle of the rotor provided in the resolver and the fed back angle information; a counter pulse output unit that outputs a counter pulse having a frequency corresponding to the compensation amount of the compensation signal and code information representing the sign of the compensation signal, and a pulse processing unit that outputs a count value by a counter as the angle information, which counts the pulse according to the code information, the pulse processing unit generating two-phase pulse signals PA and PB using the values of the counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Yuji Shimizu, Yutaka Ono
  • Publication number: 20210105162
    Abstract: To provide a correction method of resolver correction device and resolver correction device that can reduce rotation angle (the rotation speed) detection error caused by resolver. An excitation signal supply circuit supplies an excitation signal of an excitation frequency to the resolver during a normal operation, for supplying the excitation signals of a plurality of frequencies including the excitation frequency to the first phase shifter or the second phase shifter during a calibration operation. A shift amount searching circuit searches the first shift amount setting value for each frequency of the excitation signal such that the first shift amount becomes 45 degrees, and the second shift amount setting value for each frequency of the excitation signal such that the second shift amount becomes 135 degrees, while referring to the detection result of the phase difference detection circuit during the calibration operation, and stores in the correction table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshifumi IKENAGA, Yuji SHIMIZU, Akane ABE
  • Publication number: 20210064164
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides an electroconductive film 10 including a first electroconductive part 11 and a second electroconductive part 14, wherein the surface 14A of the second electroconductive part 14 forms at least a part of the surface 10A of the electroconductive film 10, the surface 11A of the first electroconductive part 11 forms at least a part of the back face 10B of the electroconductive film 10, the first electroconductive part 11 and the second electroconductive part 14 each contain electroconductive fibers 15 and 17, and the surface resistance value of the second electroconductive part 14 is within ±30% of the surface resistance value of the first electroconductive part 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Masataka INOU, Shoichiro OGUMI, Yuji SHIMIZU, Hiroaki MUTOU, Ryota KITAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10884121
    Abstract: An inter-vehicle distance control device that achieves inter-vehicle distance control satisfying the driver includes a preceding vehicle velocity computation part that computes a preceding vehicle velocity on the basis of a host vehicle velocity and a relative velocity of the preceding vehicle, a target inter-vehicle setting art that sets a target inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle on the basis of the preceding vehicle velocity, a target track generator that generates a target track and a target track differential, the target track defining a time history lasting until the initial value of the inter-vehicle distance reaches the target inter-vehicle distance, and a feedback controller that computes a feedback acceleration command by multiplying a deviation of the inter-vehicle distance from the target track and a deviation of the relative velocity from the target track differential value by a gain. The feedback acceleration command is output as an acceleration command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Shimizu, Kazuhiro Nishiwaki, Masahiro Iezawa
  • Publication number: 20200393923
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-transmitting electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11 and an electroconductive part 13 provided on one surface of the light-transmitting base material 11, wherein the electroconductive part 13 includes a light-transmitting resin 15 and plural electroconductive fibers 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15, and the electroconductive part 13 can conduct electricity from the surface 13A of the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive fibers 16 as a whole are unevenly distributed on the light-transmitting base material side than the position HL, which is located at half the film thickness of the electroconductive part 13 in the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive part 13 has a surface resistance value of 200?/? or less, and the electroconductive film 10 has a haze value of 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Shoichiro OGUMI, Yoshimasa OGAWA, Eiji OOISHI, Yukimitsu IWATA, Yuji SHIMIZU, Ryota KITAYAMA, Hiroaki MUTOU
  • Patent number: 10849351
    Abstract: A rice washer includes a charging part into which milled rice is charged; a pressurized-stirring part which is provided at a rear-stage of the charging part and stirs and sequentially feeds the milled rice charged from the charging part under pressure; and a rinsing and stirring part which is provided at a rear-stage of the pressurized-stirring part and rinses the milled rice sent from the pressurized-stirring part while stirring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TIGER KAWASHIMA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Seizo Kawashima, Fumitaka Sekiguchi, Yuji Shimizu, Tomohiro Iizuka, Satoru Imura
  • Patent number: 10831327
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-transmitting electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11 and an electroconductive part 13 provided on one surface of the light-transmitting base material 11, wherein the electroconductive part 13 includes a light-transmitting resin 15 and plural electroconductive fibers 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15, and the electroconductive part 13 can conduct electricity from the surface 13A of the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive fibers 16 as a whole are unevenly distributed on the light-transmitting base material side than the position HL, which is located at half the film thickness of the electroconductive part 13 in the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive part 13 has a surface resistance value of 200 ?/? or less, and the electroconductive film 10 has a haze value of 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Ogumi, Yoshimasa Ogawa, Eiji Ooishi, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yuji Shimizu, Ryota Kitayama, Hiroaki Mutou
  • Publication number: 20200290612
    Abstract: A vehicle control device disclosed in the present disclosure includes: a first control unit configured to control a speed of the vehicle in accordance with the route distance and the set speed until the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit; a vehicle frontward detecting unit configured to detect road information about a road frontward of the vehicle; and a second control unit configured to change control content in the cruise control unit on the basis of a detection result from the vehicle frontward detecting unit, when the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji YAMAGUCHI, Toshihide SATAKE, Yuji SHIMIZU, Kazuhiro NISHIWAKI
  • Patent number: 10736466
    Abstract: Rice-washing work can be easily performed by anyone, and proper rice-washing of various kinds of rice can be performed irrespective of an amount of rice. Namely, conventional apparatuses have not dealt with water absorption, infiltration, swelling, weakening, dissolving, and unpleasant taste, making it difficult to secure Japanese style rice quality in a white rice state. The present invention provides a rice-polishing technique for reproducing the quality. Provided is a rice washer that can be installed in a saved space not to cause obstruction even when installed in a kitchen. The rice washer according to the present invention includes a charging part into which milled rice is charged; a pressurized-stirring part provided at a rear-stage of the charging part and configured to, while pressurizing, stir and sequentially feed the milled rice charged from the charging part; a first water supply part configured to supply water to the pressurized-stirring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TIGER KAWASHIMA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Seizo Kawashima, Fumitaka Sekiguchi, Yuji Shimizu, Tomohiro Iizuka, Satoru Imura
  • Publication number: 20200182850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a useful and efficient screening method for finding a cholinergic muscarinic M1 receptor positive allosteric modulator (M1PAM) with reduced cholinergic side effects. The present invention also provides a method for treating Alzheimer's disease and the like, a method for reducing cholinergic side effects, and the like which use M1PAM selected by the screening method and having a low ? value, or the M1PAM and an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Haruhide KIMURA, Yuu SAKO, Satoru MATSUDA, Yuji SHIMIZU, Emi KURIMOTO, Takao MANDAI, Maiko TANAKA