Patents by Inventor Yusuke Sano

Yusuke Sano 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: 11978501
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a circuit in a semiconductor memory device sets threshold voltages of a plurality of memory cells such that two first distributions are formed in a first section on a lowest voltage side in 2N sections. After that, the circuit sets threshold voltages of the plurality of memory cells such that 2(1+M) second distributions are separately formed two by two. The circuit then sets 2N third distributions for the 2N sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyuki Murayama, Kikuko Sugimae, Katsuya Nishiyama, Yusuke Arayashiki, Motohiko Fujimatsu, Kyosuke Sano, Noboru Shibata
  • Patent number: 11976437
    Abstract: A shovel includes an attachment attached to a revolving upper body; and a control device including a memory and a processor configured to execute estimating a center of gravity of loaded matter loaded in the attachment, and calculating a weight of the loaded matter based on the estimated center of gravity of the loaded matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Chunnan Wu, Kazunori Hiranuma
  • Publication number: 20240126076
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes: an indicator dimmed by duty ratio control and configured to emit display light; a mirror member rotatable about a rotation shaft and configured to reflect the display light from the indicator to project a display image; a control unit configured to control the dimming of the indicator and the rotation of the mirror member; and a temperature sensor configured to output a signal corresponding to an ambient temperature around the indicator. The control unit includes: a temperature prediction unit configured to predict a temperature of the indicator, and a failure avoidance unit configured to execute lowering an upper limit of the duty ratio or rotation control of the mirror member for reducing the amount of sunlight that enters the indicator through the mirror member when the predicted temperature of the indicator is greater than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Sugiura, Akira Yamanaka, Yuta Miyake, Naohisa Murata, Hiroshi Sano
  • Patent number: 11958143
    Abstract: A welding control device includes an actual position determination part configured to determine an actual position of the position control target on the basis of a weld characteristic amount detected from a captured image captured so as to include at least the position control target, the welding characteristic amount including at least one of a wire position of the weld wire or an electrode position of the electrode; a target position determination part configured to determine a target position being a target of the actual position corresponding to a weld condition for welding the weld target; and a position control part configured to execute a position control of the position control target to bring the actual position to the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hazui, Koki Tateishi, Naoki Suda, Kazuhiko Kamo, Masahiro Kimura, Yusuke Sano, Yasushi Nishijima
  • Patent number: 11959254
    Abstract: A shovel includes a traveling lower body; a revolving upper body rotatably installed on the traveling lower body; an excavation attachment attached to the revolving upper body; and a control device, wherein the control device includes a setting unit to set a target trajectory as a trajectory to be followed by a predetermined part of the excavation attachment, based on information on a landform before excavation is started, and a target excavation volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Sano
  • Patent number: 11939459
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition having good liquid repellency. The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention at least contains a fluororesin having a crosslinking site, a solvent, and a photopolymerization initiator, and the fluororesin contains a repeating unit derived from a hydrocarbon having a fluorine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzuru Kaneko, Satoru Miyazawa, Keiko Sasaki, Asuka Sano, Yusuke Nomura
  • Patent number: 11929612
    Abstract: A first switching unit switches a first power grid from an isolated operation to a grid-connected operation. In switching the first power grid from the isolated operation to the grid-connected operation, the first switching unit determines a master and a slave among a plurality of power adjustment resources and allows the first power grid to be connected to the second power grid after master-slave control by means of the master and the slave such that electric power of the first power grid is in synchronization with electric power of the second power grid. The first switching unit preferentially selects as the master, a power adjustment resource close to a point of connection between the first power grid and the second power grid from among the plurality of power adjustment resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigetaka Hamada, Haruka Hirose, Yusuke Horii, Toru Nakamura, Takaaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11912154
    Abstract: A power management system includes a plurality of power adjustment resources electrically connected to a microgrid. The plurality of power adjustment resources include a plurality of EVSEs, each of EVSEs including a parking space. When any one of a plurality of power feeding vehicles is parked in the parking space, an EVSE enables power feeding from a vehicle parked in the parking space to the microgrid. A CEMS server manages the parking space. When a balance of power supply and demand in the microgrid is in an overdemand state, the CEMS server allocates the parking space to a power feeding vehicle that responds to a request for power feeding to the microgrid, of the plurality of power feeding vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigetaka Hamada, Haruka Hirose, Yusuke Horii, Toru Nakamura, Takaaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20240044107
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and a control device mounted on the upper turning body and configured to assist an excavating motion with the attachment. The control device is configured to derive a target excavation depth based on the hardness of an excavation target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke SANO, Chunnan WU
  • Publication number: 20240026653
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper swiveling body mounted to the lower traveling body, attachments including a boom attached to the upper swiveling body, an arm attached to an end of the boom, and a bucket, which is an end attachment, attached to an end of the arm, and a controller configured to select, as a straight facing target surface, one of a plurality of constituting surfaces that constitute a target construction surface based on a position of the bucket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke SANO, Keiji HONDA, Masaru ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20240011245
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, traveling hydraulic motors as traveling actuators for driving the lower traveling body, and a controller as a control device provided in the upper turning body. The controller is configured to determine a front and rear of a traveling direction in accordance with a direction of the upper turning body and to perform travel control such that the rear of the upper turning body is positioned forward in the traveling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masaru ONODERA, Yusuke SANO, Keiji HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240011252
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and an attitude detection device (a boom angle sensor, an arm angle sensor, a bucket angle sensor, a machine attitude sensor, and a turning angle sensor), and a controller configured to calculate a target angle related to a working angle formed by a plane or a line determined based on a shape of a bucket included in the attachment and a target surface. The controller changes the target angle in accordance with the attitude of the attachment and information relating to the target surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masaru ONODERA, Yusuke SANO, Keiji HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240011241
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper swiveling body mounted to the lower traveling body, attachments including a boom attached to the upper swiveling body, an arm attached to an end of the boom, and a bucket that is an end attachment attached to an end of the arm, and a control device configured to control swiveling of the upper swiveling body and movement of the attachments so that an end portion of the bucket moves along an extension of a slope toe, which is a target line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke SANO, Keiji HONDA, Masaru ONODERA
  • Patent number: 11821163
    Abstract: A shovel includes an attachment attached to an upper turning body and a processor configured to calculate a weight of a load carried in the attachment in accordance with a mode selected from a plurality of modes with respect to timing of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20230357210
    Abstract: In order to resolve the food crisis that is anticipated to come in the near future due to global population growth, there is a demand for the creation of a novel herbicide having both high safety for crops and excellent herbicidal activity against weeds. This problem can be solved by an agricultural or horticultural herbicide comprising a compound represented by the following general formula (1): or a salt thereof as an active ingredient, and a method for using the herbicide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke SANO, Tomoya MORITA, Naoya OSATO, Asuka NISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11788253
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and a control device mounted on the upper turning body and configured to assist an excavating motion with the attachment. The control device is configured to derive a target excavation depth based on the hardness of an excavation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Chunnan Wu
  • Patent number: 11787809
    Abstract: Provided are an oxime group-containing condensed heterocyclic compound or a salt thereof, preferably a condensed heterocyclic compound represented by general formula (1): (wherein the symbols are defined in the specification); an agricultural and horticultural insecticide comprising the compound or a salt thereof as an active ingredient; and a method for using the insecticide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Ikki Yonemura, Soichiro Matsuo, Akiyuki Suwa, Shunpei Fujie
  • Publication number: 20230203790
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, and a controller configured to control a projection device that projects light onto a ground surface. The controller is attached to the upper turning body, and is configured to control the projection device so as to enable visualization of the relationship between the current shape of the ground surface and the shape of a target surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke SANO, Chunnan WU, Yoshiyasu ITSUJI, Koichiro TSUKANE, Takumi ITOH, Keiji HONDA
  • Patent number: 11655611
    Abstract: A shovel that corrects the movement of an attachment regardless of the operating state of the attachment by an operator is provided. The shovel includes a traveling body, a turning body turnably mounted on the traveling body, an attachment attached to the turning body, a hydraulic actuator configured to drive the attachment, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the hydraulic actuator to minimize a change in orientation of the traveling body or of the turning body, in response to a change in moment caused by an aerial movement of the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Junichi Okada, Kazunori Hiranuma, Yoshiyasu Itsuji, Koichiro Tsukane, Keiji Honda
  • Patent number: 11632043
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a regulator, a charge pump circuit, an overvoltage detection circuit, and a control circuit. The regulator regulates a power supply voltage. The charge pump circuit outputs, a gate control voltage, to a gate node of an N-type transistor provided between a power supply node and a load, based on a regulated voltage. The overvoltage detection circuit detects an overvoltage of the regulated voltage. The control circuit controls to stop the charge pump circuit when the overvoltage is detected by the overvoltage detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Katsumi Inoue, Yusuke Sano, Motoaki Nishimura