Patents by Inventor Daisuke Kondo

Daisuke Kondo 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: 10360814
    Abstract: A motion learning support apparatus displays a teaching-aid video segment and a segment of practice video of a learner alternately on a monitor, the practice video being of the learner who is imitating a motion of the teaching-aid video segment and being taken with an imaging unit. The motion learning support apparatus includes: motion detection unit to detect a motion of the learner and a motion information acquisition unit; an evaluation unit to evaluate similarity of a motion of the learner to a motion in the teaching-aid video segment; and first learning support processing unit to, when the evaluation unit evaluates that the motions are similar, switch the monitor from video taken with the imaging unit to a following teaching-aid video segment. Thereby, vividness of an image due to the illusion effect induced to the learner can be improved, and so the learning effect can be improved for supporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, Daisuke Kondo, Kazutaka Obama, Hiroyuki Izuka
  • Publication number: 20190170133
    Abstract: A valve includes a first plate, a side wall plate, a second plate, and a third plate. The first plate has a plurality of first vent holes. The second plate constitutes a valve chamber along with the first plate and the side wall plate. The second plate includes a second principal surface opposing a first principal surface of the first plate. The second plate has a plurality of second vent holes. The third plate has a plurality of third vent holes. The plurality of third vent holes overlaps with the plurality of first vent holes without overlapping with the plurality of second vent holes in a plan view in a direction in which the first plate and the second plate oppose each other. Both principal surfaces of the third plate oppose the first principal surface and the second principal surface. The third plate is disposed in the valve chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuhira TANAKA, Daisuke KONDO
  • Patent number: 10286124
    Abstract: An inhalation device includes a nozzle, a separator, a housing, a battery portion, a circuit board, and a piezoelectric blower. The piezoelectric blower has a suction hole that opens near the center of an upper surface of the piezoelectric blower and a discharge hole that opens at the center of a bottom surface of the piezoelectric blower. The piezoelectric blower is mounted on a first main surface of the circuit board on the side of an upper housing. The circuit board applies a drive voltage to the piezoelectric blower to drive the piezoelectric blower. The circuit board has a through-hole facing the discharge hole. The through-hole overlaps the discharge hole, out of the suction hole and the discharge hole, when the first main surface of the circuit board is viewed from a front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Kenjiro Okaguchi, Hiroshi Takemura
  • Patent number: 10280915
    Abstract: A fluid control device (10) having a flow passage passing through a pump chamber (45) and a valve chamber (40) includes a vibration unit (37) that vibrates to cause fluctuation of an internal pressure in the pump chamber (45), a valve bottom plate (23) facing the valve chamber (40) and having a communication hole (43) communicating with the pump chamber (45) at one end and communicating with the valve chamber (40) at the other end, and a valve top plate (21) facing the valve chamber (40) to be opposed to the valve bottom plate (23) and having a discharge hole (41) communicating with the valve chamber (40). The communication hole (43) and the discharge hole (41) are not opposed to each other, and the valve bottom plate (23) is elastically deformed by transmission of vibration of the vibration unit (37) thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Kiyoshi Kurihara, Hiroyuki Yokoi, Hiroaki Wada
  • Patent number: 10263522
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, an output terminal, a high-side MOSFET connected between the first voltage terminal and the output terminal, a low-side MOSFET connected between the output terminal and the second voltage terminal and having first and second gate electrodes, a drive circuit that complementally switches on and off the high-side MOSFET and low-side MOSFET, and a second gate electrode control circuit that generates a second gate control signal supplied to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET. The second gate electrode control circuit has a voltage generating circuit that supplies a negative voltage negative in polarity relative to a voltage at the source of the low-side MOSFET, to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Koji Tateno, Yumi Kishita, Tomoaki Uno
  • Patent number: 10222806
    Abstract: A vehicle drive control device includes a drive lane detector, a drive assist unit, and a curve road steering assist unit. The drive lane detector detects a drive lane of a subject vehicle. The drive assist unit performs drive assist control to assist the subject vehicle in lane keep driving in the drive lane. The curve road steering assist unit performs steering assist for assisting the subject vehicle in turning along a curve of a curve road if the drive lane is the curve road and if the drive assist control performed by the drive assist unit is discontinued during driving on the curve road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakada, Hiroyuki Koibuchi, Daisuke Kondo, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yoshifumi Banno, Yuki Kizumi
  • Patent number: 10180376
    Abstract: A ball bearing inspection device includes: an arbor supporting an inner ring on the outer circumferential surface; a rotary drive unit driving the arbor; a first pressing unit applying a preload to a ball bearing; a second pressing unit applying a preload in an opposite direction of the pressing direction; and a vibration detection unit detecting vibration from the ball bearing. The arbor includes an abutting section that protrudes outward from the outer circumferential surface, a movable flange arranged apart from the abutting section, and a flange drive mechanism switching the movable flange between a first state in which the movable flange protrudes from the outer circumferential surface and a second state in which the movable flange is accommodated within the arbor. The flange drive mechanism is additionally provided with a drive force supply unit that applies drive force for switching to the first or the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Taito Shibuya, Kentarou Kachi, Katsuyuki Kawamura, Shinichi Takamura
  • Patent number: 10162361
    Abstract: A steering control unit performs lane keeping control to cause a steering system to operate to reduce a distance between a width-direction center position of a lane and a position where the vehicle is traveling in the lane on the basis of a recognized state of the lane obtained by a lane recognizing unit. A road condition determining unit determines whether the road on which the vehicle is traveling is a straight road. A lane keeping responsivity setting unit sets, when it is determined by the road condition determining unit that the road on which the vehicle is traveling is a straight road, responsivity of the lane keeping control to the distance to be lower than responsivity set when it is determined that the road on which the vehicle is traveling is not a straight road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Koibuchi, Daisuke Kondo, Yuki Nakada, Yoshifumi Banno, Yuki Kizumi
  • Publication number: 20180321664
    Abstract: To provide a product manufacturing system, method, and program that can efficiently execute a manufacturing process irrespective of a form of an object to be processed or conformity of manufacturing process conditions when collectively executing a plurality of manufacturing jobs. A step managing device (16, 20A, 20B), which constitutes part of a product manufacturing system (10, 10A, 10B), performs: creating a plurality of electronic documents (72) including information related to manufacturing jobs representing manufacturing units of a product (D1, D2); transmitting, to a manufacturing process device, process information (Ir) capable of specifying the manufacturing process conditions and the object to be processed associated with a selected manufacturing job from among the electronic documents (72) or a plurality of output objects (26); and causing a manufacturing process device (22, 28, 29) to execute the manufacturing process to be executed in work steps corresponding to the electronic documents (72).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Abe, Daisuke Kondo
  • Patent number: 10107281
    Abstract: A piezoelectric blower includes an outer casing and a blower main body. The outer casing houses the blower main body. The blower main body includes a top plate, side plate, first vibrating plate, piezoelectric element, intermediate plate, second vibrating plate, side plate, and bottom plate and has a structure in which they are laminated in sequence. The top plate, side plate, and first vibrating plate define a columnar first blower space. The second vibrating plate, side plate, bottom plate define a columnar second blower space. The distance from a neutral plane of the piezoelectric element in the thickness direction to a surface of the second vibrating plate, the surface being near the piezoelectric element, is longer than the distance from the neutral plane to a surface of the first vibrating plate, the surface being near the piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhira Tanaka, Daisuke Kondo, Kiyoshi Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20180269789
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, an output terminal, a high-side MOSFET connected between the first voltage terminal and the output terminal, a low-side MOSFET connected between the output terminal and the second voltage terminal and having first and second gate electrodes, a drive circuit that complementally switches on and off the high-side MOSFET and low-side MOSFET, and a second gate electrode control circuit that generates a second gate control signal supplied to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET. The second gate electrode control circuit has a voltage generating circuit that supplies a negative voltage negative in polarity relative to a voltage at the source of the low-side MOSFET, to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Koji Tateno, Yumi Kishita, Tomoaki Uno
  • Publication number: 20180248492
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a high-side transistor including an IGBT, a low-side transistor including an IGBT, and having a collector coupled to an emitter of the high-side transistor, a high-side driver configured to drive the high-side transistor; and a low-side driver configured to drive the low-side transistor, wherein each of the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor includes a first trench gate electrode arranged in an active cell region, and electrically connected to a gate, and a second trench gate electrode and a third trench gate electrode, each of which is arranged at intervals on both sides of the first trench gate electrode, and electrically connected to the emitter in the active cell region. The high-side driver includes a first pull-up transistor configured to apply a first voltage as a positive voltage to the gate, based on the emitter of the high-side transistor and a first pull-down transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Daisuke KONDO, Koji TATENO, Chang LIU, Nao NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20180187672
    Abstract: A piezoelectric blower includes a valve unit, a pump unit, a controller, and an outer housing. The valve unit includes a plurality of ejection holes and film holes. The pump unit includes a plurality of communication holes and suction holes. The outer housing covers the valve unit and the pump unit with a gap between the outer housing and each of the valve unit and the pump unit. Thus, the outer housing forms vent passages between the outer housing and the valve unit and between the outer housing and the pump unit. The inlet communicates with the vent passage. The outlet communicates with the vent passage. At least one of the inlet and the outlet is displaced from a central axis of the pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Nobuhira TANAKA, Daisuke KONDO, Hiroaki WADA
  • Publication number: 20180183432
    Abstract: The present disclosure attempts to improve performance of a semiconductor apparatus including a power transistor such as an IGBT. In a semiconductor apparatus, an IGBT module 110 includes IGBT elements SWa and SWb connected in parallel to each other, a resistor R1a connected to a gate terminal of the IGBT element SWa, and a diode D1a connected in parallel to the resistor R1a. In the diode D1a, a direction toward the gate terminal of the IGBT element SWa is a forward direction. With this configuration, it is possible to prevent gate oscillation and to improve switching characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Daisuke KONDO
  • Publication number: 20180169471
    Abstract: A selection support apparatus includes an obtaining unit obtaining a measurement result of a golf swing movement of a golfer, and a selection unit selecting, from a plurality of types of club characteristics of a golf club, a club characteristic suitable for the golfer based on the measurement result. The selection unit selects a club characteristic suitable for the golfer based on machine learning results of teacher data indicating a club characteristic suitable for a golf swing movement of each tester of a plurality of testers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke KONDO
  • Patent number: 10003262
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, an output terminal, a high-side MOSFET connected between the first voltage terminal and the output terminal, a low-side MOSFET connected between the output terminal and the second voltage terminal and having first and second gate electrodes, a drive circuit that complementally switches on and off the high-side MOSFET and low-side MOSFET, and a second gate electrode control circuit that generates a second gate control signal supplied to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET. The second gate electrode control circuit has a voltage generating circuit that supplies a negative voltage negative in polarity relative to a voltage at the source of the low-side MOSFET, to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Koji Tateno, Yumi Kishita, Tomoaki Uno
  • Patent number: 9990858
    Abstract: Provided is a golf swing classification method that is capable of optimizing selection of a golf club. A golf swing classification method when a golf club hits a golf ball according to the present invention includes the steps of: acquiring acceleration in at least a single point on the golf club or in at least one point that follows the single point during the golf swing; and mapping a behavior of the golf club based on a time period from a time point when an absolute value of the acceleration is at a maximum to a time point when the golf club hits the golf ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Senno, Koji Takao, Daisuke Kondo, Hideo Matsunaga, Hirotada Iwade
  • Patent number: 9966870
    Abstract: To reduce the number of mounted components in the power conversion device and drive device. Each high-side transistor and low-side transistor has an EGE-type structure of (emitter-gate-emitter type). A high-side driver includes a first pull-up transistor configured to apply a first positive voltage to a gate based on an emitter of the high-side transistor, and a first pull-down transistor configured to couple the gate to the emitter. A low-side driver includes a second pull-up transistor configured to apply a second positive voltage to the gate based on an emitter of the low-side transistor, and a second pull-down transistor configured to couple the gate to the emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Koji Tateno, Chang Liu, Nao Nagata
  • Patent number: 9910488
    Abstract: A motion guide display device includes a head-mountable image display device that displays an image, a camera that takes a self image from a first person perspective, an image display processing unit that displays a reference image from a first person perspective as a following target and the self image at the display unit alternately in a time-dividing manner under the condition generating a blending feeling, and a display mode setting unit that lets the image display processing unit operate within the range of cycles (frequencies) and self-other ratios as the condition generating a blending feeling. This can bring the blending feeling with the reference image, and can support the continuation of spontaneous following motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Taro Maeda, Hideyuki Ando, Hiroyuki Izuka, Tomoko Yonemura, Daisuke Kondo, Takumi Yokosaka
  • Publication number: 20180051686
    Abstract: A fluid control device includes a pump and an external structure. The pump includes an actuator, a top portion opposed to the actuator such that a gap is disposed therebetween in the thickness direction, and a side wall plate extending from the top portion in the thickness direction and supporting a vibration member. The actuator includes the plate-like vibration member and a piezoelectric element configured to cause the vibration member to vibrate in the thickness direction. The top portion includes a projection portion and a fixation portion projecting beyond the side wall plate in an outward direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. The top portion is fixed to an external structure outside the projection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Nobuhira TANAKA, Daisuke KONDO