Patents by Inventor Yusuke Matsumoto

Yusuke 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).

  • Publication number: 20240155233
    Abstract: An imaging system located on a moving body includes an imaging device, a blur correction assembly, and a controller. The blur correction assembly that corrects blur in movement direction of the moving body when the imaging device captures images during movement of the moving body. The controller controls exposure time of the imaging device, based on a movement velocity of the moving body and a correctable blur amount by the blur correction assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi MATSUI, Norikazu KATSUYAMA, Yusuke ADACHI, Yusuke MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11979792
    Abstract: A method for uploading a probe data, including coordinate information of a plurality of features disposed along a road, to a server, includes: acquiring at least one peripheral object data, representing a feature disposed around a vehicle, from a peripheral monitoring sensor mounted on the vehicle; analyzing the peripheral object data and calculate a position of the feature with respect to the road on which the vehicle travels; and generating the probe data including position information of the feature and uploading the probe data to the server. The uploading includes a first mode in which the probe data is uploaded to the server at a predetermined frequency, and a second mode in which the probe data is uploaded at a lower frequency than the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Takahisa Yokoyama, Ryota Terada
  • Patent number: 11932009
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing section that performs printing on a medium containing calcium carbonate, a transport section that rotationally drives a transport belt that forms at least a portion of a transport path in which the medium is transported, a voltage supply section that supplies a charging voltage to a charging roller for charging the transport belt, a detection section that detects whether or not charging abnormality has occurred in the transport belt, a determination section that determines whether a cause of the charging abnormality is abnormality of the voltage supply section or abnormality of the transport belt, and a machine learning section that performs machine learning of a determination condition in the determination section, based on a learning model in which a rotation amount of the transport belt and a detection result of the detection section are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11932032
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a voltage supply section that supplies a charging voltage for charging a transport belt, a detection section that detects whether or not charging abnormality has occurred in the transport belt, and a determination section that determines a cause of the charging abnormality. The determination section determines that the cause of the charging abnormality is abnormality of the voltage supply section, when the movement period includes the period for which the detection section detects the charging abnormality and does not include the period for which the detection section does not detect the charging abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11932033
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing section that performs printing on a medium containing calcium carbonate, a transport section that rotationally drives a transport belt that forms at least a portion of a transport path in which the medium is transported, a voltage supply section that supplies a charging voltage to a charging roller for charging the transport belt, a detection section that detects whether or not charging abnormality has occurred in the transport belt, and a determination section that determines whether abnormality has occurred in the voltage supply section or the transport belt, or abnormality has occurred in the voltage supply section and the transport belt, based on a rotation amount of the transport belt and the detection result of the detection section. The transport belt is coated with melamine resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Toru Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20240057719
    Abstract: In a shoe, an upper has an opening through which a foot of a wearer is inserted when the wearer puts on the shoe, and includes a shoelace tightening region located forward of the opening. A tape member is higher in rigidity than the upper body. A first portion is located in the shoelace tightening region and extends in a front-rear direction of the upper. A folded portion is contiguous to at least one of a front end portion and a rear end portion of the first portion. The folded portion is formed by folding the tape member downward when viewed from the first portion. A second portion extends downward from the folded portion. The first portion is sewn onto the upper body such that gaps through which a shoelace passes are provided between the first portion and the upper body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Ryota KITAMI, Noritaka OKADA
  • Patent number: 11904605
    Abstract: There is provided a head unit including: a substrate on which a first driving circuit is disposed; a heat sink fixed to the substrate; and heat conductive elastic bodies positioned between the substrate and the heat sink, in which the first driving circuit includes a first integrated circuit, a first amplifier circuit including a first transistor, and a first smoothing circuit that outputs the first driving signal, in which a first heat conductive elastic body is in contact with the heat sink and the first integrated circuit, a second heat conductive elastic body is in contact with the heat sink and the first transistor, and the first heat conductive elastic body and the second heat conductive elastic body are in a form of a gel having flame retardancy and electric insulation property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11897260
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head, and a drive signal output unit that outputs a drive signal. The head unit includes a first rigid substrate, and a first connector to which the drive signal is input, the drive signal output unit includes a second rigid substrate, and a second connector from which the drive signal is output, the first connector includes a first fixing portion fixed to the first rigid substrate, and a first terminal, the second connector includes a second fixing portion fixed to the second rigid substrate, and a second terminal, the first connector has a receptacle shape, the second connector has a plug shape, and the first rigid substrate and the second rigid substrate are electrically coupled by fitting the first connector and the second connector so that the first terminal and the second terminal are in direct contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11896959
    Abstract: To provide a catalyst capable of hydrotreating a hydrocarbon oil with high desulfurization activity. A hydrotreating catalyst for a hydrocarbon oil includes: an inorganic composite oxide carrier including alumina as a main component; and an active metal component supported on the carrier, the active metal component including, as active metal species, a first metal which is at least one of molybdenum and tungsten, and a second metal which is at least one of cobalt and nickel, the hydrotreating catalyst for having a Lewis acid amount and a Brönsted acid amount per unit surface area of 0.80 ?mol/m2 or more and 0.03 ?mol/m2 or less, respectively, as measured by pyridine desorption at 250° C. and a BET single-point method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: JGC Catalysts and Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Midori Kobayashi, Hisaya Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20240024806
    Abstract: An apparatus is usable to manufacture a filter. The apparatus includes a pleats-forming unit, a first belt part, a second belt part, and a controller. The pleats-forming unit delivers a filter substrate in a first direction and then successively folds the filter substrate into alternate mountains and valleys. The first belt part is disposed downstream of the pleats-forming unit in the first direction. The first belt part contacts with the mountains and valleys of the filter substrate to compress the mountains and valleys of the filter substrate in the first direction. The second belt part is disposed downstream of the first belt part in the first direction. The second belt part pulls the mountains and valleys of the filter substrate in the first direction to form a predetermined pitch between each adjacent pair of the mountains or valleys. The control unit controls a traveling speed of the second belt part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KITAO, Yusuke MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11865835
    Abstract: There are provided a substrate on which a first integrated circuit, a first transistor, a second integrated circuit, and a second transistor are disposed; a heat sink fixed to the substrate; the substrate has a first fixing reference hole and a second fixing reference hole, the heat sink has a first fixing reference pin and a second fixing reference pin which are inserted into the first fixing reference hole and the second fixing reference hole, and the first integrated circuit, the second integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the second transistor are positioned between the first fixing reference hole and the second fixing reference hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11821750
    Abstract: A map generation system provides to: acquire an image of the vehicle's environment from the imaging device; analyze the image to calculate the position of a feature on the road; upload map information including the position of the feature to a server; and statistically determines the coordinates of individual features in the uploaded map information. The features include a reference mark whose absolute coordinates are determined. The coordinates of the features other than the reference mark are corrected so as to match the observation coordinates of the reference mark corresponding to the absolute coordinates of the reference mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki Kitahara, Yusuke Matsumoto, Shigehiro Muto, Takayuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11811041
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of batteries, a cooling portion through which a refrigerant for cooling the plurality of the batteries flows, a housing that has a bottom plate, a top plate, and side walls, the housing accommodating the plurality of the batteries and the cooling portion, and a compressor configured to pump the refrigerant to the cooling portion. In the housing, a strength member that extends in a direction in which the side walls face each other and reinforces the housing is mounted on the bottom plate or the top plate. The compressor is disposed in a position in which the compressor and the strength member are overlapped in the upright direction of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11780022
    Abstract: A solder ball bonding (SBB) tool includes a rotatable feed plate for transporting solder balls from a translatable solder ball reservoir to a nozzle unit, which is a position at which a laser light source can irradiate and thus melt the solder balls. The SBB tool includes a gap between the reservoir and the feed plate positioned over the reservoir, and a feed mechanism coupled with the reservoir, where the feed mechanism is driven by a pressurized gas to translate the reservoir upward across at least a portion of the gap in preparation for movement of a solder ball to the feed plate and downward in preparation for rotation of the feed plate after a solder ball is moved to the feed plate. The gap may have a maximum size that exceeds a nominal size of the solder balls contained in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Kenichi Murata
  • Patent number: 11752763
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a head unit that ejects a liquid, and a control unit that controls an operation of the head unit, wherein the head unit includes a drive signal output circuit that outputs a drive signal, a first substrate on which the drive signal output circuit is provided, and a first ejection head including a first drive element driven by the drive signal, and a first nozzle plate including a first nozzle from which a liquid is ejected by driving the first drive element, wherein the first substrate includes a first face and a second face, wherein the drive signal output circuit is provided on the first face, and wherein a shortest distance between the first nozzle plate and the second face is shorter than a shortest distance between the first nozzle plate and the first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11695152
    Abstract: A case having elasticity corresponding to expansion and contraction of a stacked body housed therein and a method for manufacturing the same, a method for inserting the stacked body into the case, and a cell stack using the case are provided. A case configured to house a stacked body includes two opposed contact parts in contact with the stacked body, and two spring structures connecting the two contact parts with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Kinno, Yusuke Matsumoto, Natsuhiko Katahira
  • Patent number: 11685155
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit that includes a nozzle that ejects a liquid, a control circuit that outputs a control signal that controls an operation of the head unit, a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to the head unit, and a liquid container that stores the liquid. The head unit includes a first terminal to which the control signal is input, a second terminal to which the power supply voltage is supplied, and a liquid supply port to which the liquid is supplied, the first terminal and the second terminal are located side by side along a first direction, and the second terminal is located between the first terminal and the liquid supply port in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Shunsuke Yamamichi
  • Publication number: 20230168502
    Abstract: A display system includes an attitude detection device configured to detect an attitude change amount of a moving body, and a correction processing device including a vibration detector configured to determine whether or not an attitude change in the moving body having a specific frequency band component has been continuously generated based on the attitude change amount. The correction processing device updates a correction amount of a display position of the image based on the attitude change amount when the vibration detector determines that the attitude change having the specific frequency band component has not been continuously generated, and sets an absolute value of the correction amount to be equal to or less than an absolute value of a correction amount at a time of last determination when the vibration detector determines that the attitude change having the specific frequency band component has been continuously generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Satoshi MATSUI, Norikazu KATSUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11661554
    Abstract: Provided is a hydrotreating catalyst for a heavy hydrocarbon oil, the catalyst including an inorganic oxide carrier including alumina as a main component and a metal component supported on the inorganic oxide carrier, the catalyst having a specific surface area within a predetermined range, a reduction peak temperature that is lower than 450° C. in temperature-programmed reduction measurement of the catalyst and that is higher than or equal to a predetermined temperature, and an amount of nitrogen monoxide adsorbed on the sulfided catalyst within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: JGC Catalysts and Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shintaku, Kenji Yamane, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230072330
    Abstract: A projection type image display apparatus including a light source apparatus includes a light emitting element emitting blue light; a phosphor receiving the blue light to emit predetermined light; a heat sink provided with a bottom portion and a plurality of heat radiation fins extending from the bottom portion; and a cooling fan arranged to cool the plurality of heat radiation fins of the heat sink. The light emitting element is attached to the bottom portion of the heat sink. The phosphor is attached to the bottom portion of the heat sink at a predetermined interval from the light emitting element. Heat pipes conducting heat by repeating evaporation and liquefaction of working liquid are embedded in the bottom portion. The heat pipes are respectively provided with sections opposing the light emitting element in a thickness direction of the bottom portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMORI, Hiroshi SHIINA, Kazuo SHIKITA, Yusuke MATSUMOTO