Patents by Inventor Akihiro Ando
Akihiro 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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Patent number: 11984260Abstract: An electronic device includes a chip component, a conductive terminal, a case, and a fixation part. The chip component includes a terminal electrode on an end surface of the chip component. The conductive terminal is connected to the terminal electrode. The case includes an accommodation recess for accommodating the chip component. The fixation part fixes the case to an installation portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Masuda, Shinya Ito, Norihisa Ando, Kosuke Yazawa, Yoshiki Satou, Katsumi Kobayashi, Koji Utsui, Koji Kaneko
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Patent number: 11961676Abstract: An electronic device 10 comprises chip capacitors 20a and 20b, an accommodation recess 62 accommodating the chip capacitors 20a and 20b, and a case 60 including a protrusion 64 partitioning the accommodation recess 62 into a first accommodation space 62a and a second accommodation space 62b along the X-axis direction. The protrusion 64 includes a first protrusion 64a and a second protrusion 64b disposed away from the first protrusion 64a along the Y-axis direction. The first protrusion 64a and the second protrusion 64b are disposed with a communication space 69 provided between the first protrusion 64a and the second protrusion 64b, so that the first accommodation space 62a and the second accommodation space 62b communicate.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Masuda, Shinya Ito, Norihisa Ando, Kosuke Yazawa, Yoshiki Satou, Katsumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11939177Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet accommodating portion, an image forming portion, an accommodating portion opening portion, a lifter plate, a lifter plate lifting and lowering mechanism, a lower-limit detecting portion, a control unit lowering the lifter plate and opening the accommodating portion in accordance with an operation in a set mode of a plurality of modes when the control unit receives an instruction to open the accommodating portion, wherein the modes includes a first mode in which the accommodating portion is opened irrespective of whether or not the lifter plate lowers to the lower-limit position and a second mode in which the accommodating portion is opened after the lifter plate lowers to the lower-limit position; and an operating portion operable by an operator for changing setting of the mode, between the modes, executed when the control unit receives the instruction to open the accommodating portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroto Nishihara, Yohei Katto, Yutaka Ando, Teruhito Kai, Akihiro Kawakita
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Patent number: 11926064Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Narasaki, Noboru Kawaguchi, Masaki Hirano, Muneharu Kuwata, Masashige Suwa, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono, Akihiro Fujie, Yoshitaka Koda, Toru Sato
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Publication number: 20220376458Abstract: A decrease of an output of a wavelength converted light converted by a nonlinear optical crystal is suppressed. A light source apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a fundamental wave light source configured to generate a fundamental wave which is a continuous oscillation laser beam, an external cavity including a plurality of optical mirrors, a nonlinear optical crystal installed inside the external cavity and configured to generate a light with a wavelength shorter than that of the fundamental wave. The light source apparatus includes at least one phase modulator disposed between the fundamental wave light source and the external cavity and configured to modulate the fundamental wave by a modulation frequency of an integer multiple of a resonance frequency interval of the external cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Jun SAKUMA, Akihiro ANDO
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Publication number: 20220268284Abstract: A storage unit is configured to store a drive electric current of a submersible pump detected by an electric current detection unit. An identification unit is configured to calculate at least one electric current parameter of a plurality of electric current parameter based on the temporal change of the drive electric current and identify an operation state indicating whether there is an abnormality in the submersible pump and a type of an abnormal operation, based on the electric current parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Hiromasa SHIMIZU, Akihiro ANDO, Shiro FUKAMI, Shogo UEDA, Hideyuki KATO
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Patent number: 10761400Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus and a wavelength conversion method that can stably output wavelength converted light for a long time are provided. A wavelength conversion apparatus 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a casing 10, a wavelength conversion element 25 disposed inside the casing 10 and configured to convert a wavelength of incident light and output light with the converted wavelength, a first port 11 that introduces a first gas containing 99.9% or more of a nitrogen gas inside the casing 10, and a second port 12 that introduces a second gas containing 1% or more of an oxygen gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: LASERTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Ando, Jun Sakuma
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Publication number: 20200089079Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus and a wavelength conversion method that can stably output wavelength converted light for a long time are provided. A wavelength conversion apparatus 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a casing 10, a wavelength conversion element 25 disposed inside the casing 10 and configured to convert a wavelength of incident light and output light with the converted wavelength, a first port 11 that introduces a first gas containing 99.9% or more of a nitrogen gas inside the casing 10, and a second port 12 that introduces a second gas containing 1% or more of an oxygen gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Akihiro ANDO, Jun SAKUMA
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Publication number: 20190282910Abstract: VR amusement ride device that enables a user viewing virtual reality images to enjoy the feeling of riding a horse or vehicle by having the user ride a machine at the same time as viewing images, thereby preventing VR motion sickness. The VR amusement ride device includes VR image viewer, image processor, seat structure, and seat structure controller. The seat structure includes a saddle, a base, and a tilt angle adjuster, and the saddle rocks continuously or intermittently about a central axis. The image processor records/stores VR image data and event data in memory, transmits the VR image data to the VR image viewer and transmits event information based on the event data to the seat structure controller. The seat structure controller varies tilt angle of the rocking central axis of the saddle to forward tilt, backward tilt, right tilt, and left tilt on the basis of the event information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2016Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventor: AKIHIRO ANDO
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Patent number: 10053435Abstract: The present invention provides: a furoxan compound having a fluorine atom as a substituent group on the ring structure thereof; and a novel nitric oxide donor including the compound. The present invention relates to a fluorofuroxan compound represented by general formula (1) or (2). The compound of formula (1) can be manufactured by reacting a fluoride salt with a nitrofuroxan compound to substitute the nitro group with a fluoro group. The compound of formula (2) can be manufactured by subjecting the compounds of formula (1) to isomerization by irradiation with light.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITYInventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Akihiro Ando, Masahiko Hayashi
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Patent number: 9972977Abstract: A spark plug 5 for an internal combustion engine includes a center electrode 1, an insulator 2, and a housing 3. The insulator 2 includes a distal end side exposed part and an insulator enlarged diameter part 21. The housing 3 includes a lateral electrode 32, an engaging part 33, and a crimping portion 35. A buffer member 4 that restrains the distal end side exposed part 20 by pressing a part of the distal end side exposed part 20 toward the center and a part of the inner peripheral surface of the lateral electrode 32 in a radial direction at a distal end side of the engaging part 33 is disposed at a base end side of the gas pocket 230.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Aki Miyawaki, Atsushi Honda, Syoichi Takemoto, Akihiro Ando, Takanobu Aochi, Masamichi Shibata
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Publication number: 20180009771Abstract: The present invention provides: a furoxan compound having a fluorine atom as a substituent group on the ring structure thereof; and a novel nitric oxide donor including the compound. The present invention relates to a fluorofuroxan compound represented by general formula (1) or (2). The compound of formula (1) can be manufactured by reacting a fluoride salt with a nitrofuroxan compound to substitute the nitro group with a fluoro group. The compound of formula (2) can be manufactured by subjecting the compounds of formula (1) to isomerization by irradiation with light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Akihiro Ando, Masahiko Hayashi
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Patent number: 9761922Abstract: Input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c are formed within portions of cutouts 5a, 5b and 5c provided in a ground conductor 5 on the underside of a magnetic material 3; signal conductors 9a, 9b and 9c are formed within portions of cutouts 8a, 8b and 8c provided in a ground conductor 8 on the top surface of a dielectric substrate 7 at the same places as the cutouts 5a, 5b and 5c of the ground conductor; through holes 10a, 10b and 10c electrically connect a center conductor 4 to the input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c; metal bumps 11a, 11b and 11c electrically connect the input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c to the signal conductors 9a, 9b and 9c facing each other; and metal bumps 16 electrically connect the ground conductor 5 to the ground conductor 8.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tetsu Owada, Akihiro Ando, Hironobu Shibata
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Publication number: 20170194769Abstract: A spark plug 5 for an internal combustion engine includes a center electrode 1, an insulator 2, and a housing 3. The insulator 2 includes a distal end side exposed part and an insulator enlarged diameter part 21. The housing 3 includes a lateral electrode 32, an engaging part 33, and a crimping portion 35. A buffer member 4 that restrains the distal end side exposed part 20 by pressing a part of the distal end side exposed part 20 toward the center and a part of the inner peripheral surface of the lateral electrode 32 in a radial direction at a distal end side of the engaging part 33 is disposed at a base end side of the gas pocket 230.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Aki MIYAWAKI, Atsushi HONDA, Syoichi TAKEMOTO, Akihiro ANDO, Takanobu AOCHI, Masamichi SHIBATA
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Patent number: 9623467Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a locking ridge for a case of forming the locking ridge on an outer peripheral surface of a joint portion by form rolling, the method realizing a joint portion structure which is superior in pipe detachment prevention performance when pipes with locking ridges are connected by fixing pipe ends with a housing. Using a convex roller arranged inside the workpiece pipe body and a forming circular groove arranged outside the pipe body, the locking ridge is form-rolled such that an upright wall portion thereof is raised at an angle of at least 65° and no greater than 90° with respect to the outer peripheral surface in the pipe axis direction, and that a height of the locking ridge from the outer peripheral surface to the apex of the tip portion is at least a total of curvature radii of faces of the processing means in contact with the pipe body.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinnosuke Nishijima, Katsuhide Nishio, Akihiro Ando, Kouki Tomimura
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Publication number: 20160288187Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a locking ridge for a case of forming the locking ridge on an outer peripheral surface of a joint portion by form rolling, the method realizing a joint portion structure which is superior in pipe detachment prevention performance when pipes with locking ridges are connected by fixing pipe ends with a housing. Using a convex roller arranged inside the workpiece pipe body and a forming circular groove arranged outside the pipe body, the locking ridge is form-rolled such that an upright wall portion thereof is raised at an angle of at least 65° and no greater than 90° with respect to the outer peripheral surface in the pipe axis direction, and that a height of the locking ridge from the outer peripheral surface to the apex of the tip portion is at least a total of curvature radii of faces of the processing means in contact with the pipe body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Shinnosuke NISHIJIMA, Katsuhide NISHIO, Akihiro ANDO, Kouki TOMIMURA
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Publication number: 20160211564Abstract: Input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c are formed within portions of cutouts 5a, 5b and 5c provided in a ground conductor 5 on the underside of a magnetic material 3; signal conductors 9a, 9b and 9c are formed within portions of cutouts 8a, 8b and 8c provided in a ground conductor 8 on the top surface of a dielectric substrate 7 at the same places as the cutouts 5a, 5b and 5c of the ground conductor; through holes 10a, 10b and 10c electrically connect a center conductor 4 to the input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c; metal bumps 11a, 11b and 11c electrically connect the input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c to the signal conductors 9a, 9b and 9c facing each other; and metal bumps 16 electrically connect the ground conductor 5 to the ground conductor 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hidenori ISHIBASHI, Tetsu OWADA, Akihiro ANDO, Hironobu SHIBATA
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Patent number: D1016031Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
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Patent number: D1016032Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
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Patent number: D1016033Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda