Patents by Inventor Hideki Soejima
Hideki Soejima 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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Publication number: 20240125740Abstract: A tapping inspection system includes a hand-held hammer, a display, a device, a position detection unit and a storage. The hammer is for tapping an inspection portion. The display is configured to display a target position to be tapped with the hammer. The target position is superimposed on the inspection portion. The device is for collecting sound generated when the inspection portion is tapped with the hammer. The position detection unit is configured to detect a position in the inspection portion tapped with the hammer. The storage is configured to store an inspection record created by relating the sound collected by the device with the position detected by the position detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Hideki SOEJIMA
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Patent number: 11656201Abstract: According to one implementation, a structural health monitoring system includes an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic sensor, a strain sensor and a signal processing part. The ultrasonic transducer oscillates an ultrasonic wave to the first inspection area. The ultrasonic sensor detects a waveform of at least one of a transmission wave of the ultrasonic wave and a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave. The transmission wave has transmitted the first inspection area. The reflected wave has been reflected in the first inspection area. The strain sensor detects a strain amount of the second inspection area. The signal processing part obtains at least one index, representing health of the structural object including the first inspection area and the second inspection area, based on the waveform detected by the ultrasonic sensor and the strain amount detected by the strain sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Soejima, Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 11639238Abstract: A vehicle-body carrying apparatus is configured to house and carry a vehicle body of an unmanned vehicle. The apparatus includes a housing, a data collecting device, a diagnostic device, and an informing device. The housing is capable of housing the vehicle body. The data collecting device is configured to collect data relating to structural soundness of the vehicle body housed in the housing. The diagnostic device is configured to diagnose the structural soundness of the vehicle body based on the collected data. The informing device is configured to inform a user of a diagnostic result obtained by the diagnostic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Soejima
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Patent number: 11474082Abstract: A diagnosis device includes a data acquirer, a data recorder, and a health diagnoser. The data acquirer acquires a measurement data of a structure at a predetermined timing. The data recorder causes a storage to store the measurement data acquired by the data acquirer as a standard data. The health diagnoser diagnoses a health of the structure by comparing the measurement data that is acquired by the data acquirer this time with the standard data that has been acquired by the data acquirer last time and stored in the storage.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Soejima
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Publication number: 20220299675Abstract: An icing detector includes an aircraft structure, an exposed member, an optical fiber sensor, and a measuring device. The exposed member is coupled to the aircraft structure and is exposed to an outside of the aircraft structure. The optical fiber sensor is coupled to the exposed member and is covered by one or both of the aircraft structure and the exposed member. The measuring device is configured to measure light received from the optical fiber sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Hideki SOEJIMA, Mitsuru Kono, Shuugo Yasui, Satoshi Okada
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Patent number: 11226311Abstract: According to one implementation, an ultrasonic inspection system includes: a first inspection unit, a second inspection unit, and a signal processing system. The first inspection unit acquires a detection signal of a first ultrasonic wave in a first inspection section of an structural object, using a first ultrasonic transducer and a first ultrasonic sensor. The second inspection unit acquires a detection signal of a second ultrasonic wave in a second inspection section of the structural object, using a second ultrasonic transducer and a second ultrasonic sensor. The signal processing system obtains an index value representing inspection information of at least one of the first inspection section and the second inspection section, based on the detection signal of the first ultrasonic wave and the detection signal of the second ultrasonic wave.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Soejima
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Patent number: 11155365Abstract: An aircraft management system includes a sensor, a diagnosis executor, and an outputter. The sensor is loaded onto an aircraft. The diagnosis executor diagnoses health of a part of the aircraft on the basis of output from the sensor while the aircraft is flying. The outputter outputs predetermined recommendation information to an outside of the aircraft through wireless communication, in the case where the part satisfies a preset maintenance recommendation condition as a result of the diagnosis of the health.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Soejima
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Publication number: 20210302372Abstract: According to one implementation, a structural health monitoring system includes an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic sensor, a strain sensor and a signal processing part. The ultrasonic transducer oscillates an ultrasonic wave to the first inspection area. The ultrasonic sensor detects a waveform of at least one of a transmission wave of the ultrasonic wave and a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave. The transmission wave has transmitted the first inspection area. The reflected wave has been reflected in the first inspection area. The strain sensor detects a strain amount of the second inspection area. The signal processing part obtains at least one index, representing health of the structural object including the first inspection area and the second inspection area, based on the waveform detected by the ultrasonic sensor and the strain amount detected by the strain sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki SOEJIMA, Takuya NAKANO
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Patent number: 11105657Abstract: An optical inspection system includes an optical fiber sensor, an optical filter, a signal processor, and a corrector. The optical fiber sensor outputs a first optical signal having a temporal change in a wavelength corresponding to a temporal change in an amplitude of a vibration propagating in an inspection target object or a temporal change in a displacement of the inspection target object. The optical filter converts the first optical signal into a second optical signal having a temporal change in an intensity. The signal processor acquires inspection information on the inspection target object on the basis of the second optical signal. The corrector corrects a correspondence relationship between the temporal change in the wavelength and the temporal change in the intensity by changing a wavelength characteristic of the optical filter. The correspondence relationship is directed to converting the first optical signal into the second optical signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Soejima, Toshimichi Ogisu
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Patent number: 11084601Abstract: According to one implementation, a damage detection system includes: a physical quantity detection unit, a flight condition changing part and a damage detection part. The physical quantity detection unit detects a physical quantity of a structural object composing an aircraft during a flight of the aircraft. The flight condition changing part changes at least one flight condition of the aircraft to at least one specific flight condition when the physical quantity of the structural object has been detected by the physical quantity detection unit. The damage detection part determines whether a damage arose in the structural object, based on a physical quantity which has been detected, from the structural object of the aircraft flying with the at least one specific flight condition, by the physical quantity detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu Abe, Hideki Soejima, Takeshi Fukurose
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Publication number: 20210130007Abstract: A vehicle-body carrying apparatus is configured to house and carry a vehicle body of an unmanned vehicle. The apparatus includes a housing, a data collecting device, a diagnostic device, and an informing device. The housing is capable of housing the vehicle body. The data collecting device is configured to collect data relating to structural soundness of the vehicle body housed in the housing. The diagnostic device is configured to diagnose the structural soundness of the vehicle body based on the collected data. The informing device is configured to inform a user of a diagnostic result obtained by the diagnostic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventor: Hideki SOEJIMA
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Patent number: 10902182Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit that performs facsimile transmission to a destination and a changing unit that changes, in accordance with a language registered in the information processing apparatus, size of a certain area, in which characters including source characters for identifying a facsimile source are to be formed, of a sheet output at the destination as a result of the facsimile transmission in a height direction of the characters.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Wada, Satoshi Watanabe, Hirotaka Kawabata, Hideki Soejima, Hideki Fujii
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Publication number: 20200302000Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit that performs facsimile transmission to a destination and a changing unit that changes, in accordance with a language registered in the information processing apparatus, size of a certain area, in which characters including source characters for identifying a facsimile source are to be formed, of a sheet output at the destination as a result of the facsimile transmission in a height direction of the characters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu WADA, Satoshi WATANABE, Hirotaka KAWABATA, Hideki SOEJIMA, Hideki FUJII
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Patent number: 10728416Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sending unit and a controller. The sending unit sends a fax to a destination. The controller executes control for printing identification information for identifying the destination in accordance with selection made by a sender of the fax on paper output at the destination in response to sending of the fax. In a case where the sender of the fax selects a destination name as the identification information, if the destination name is unprintable as it is on the paper, the controller executes control for printing a phone number of the destination as the identification information on the paper.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Soejima, Hirotaka Kawabata, Hideki Fujii, Manabu Wada, Satoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 10689127Abstract: According to one implementation, a damage detection system includes: a physical quantity detection unit, a flight condition changing part and a damage detection part. The physical quantity detection unit detects a physical quantity of a structural object composing an aircraft during a flight of the aircraft. The flight condition changing part changes at least one flight condition of the aircraft to at least one specific flight condition when the physical quantity of the structural object has been detected by the physical quantity detection unit. The damage detection part determines whether a damage arose in the structural object, based on a physical quantity which has been detected, from the structural object of the aircraft flying with the at least one specific flight condition, by the physical quantity detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu Abe, Hideki Soejima, Takeshi Fukurose
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Patent number: 10654586Abstract: According to one implementation, a damage detection system includes: a physical quantity detection unit, a flight condition changing part and a damage detection part. The physical quantity detection unit detects a physical quantity of a structural object composing an aircraft during a flight of the aircraft. The flight condition changing part changes at least one flight condition of the aircraft to at least one specific flight condition when the physical quantity of the structural object has been detected by the physical quantity detection unit. The damage detection part determines whether a damage arose in the structural object, based on a physical quantity which has been detected, from the structural object of the aircraft flying with the at least one specific flight condition, by the physical quantity detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu Abe, Hideki Soejima, Takeshi Fukurose
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Patent number: 10585017Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus includes a fiber optic sensor, a collection processor, and a self-diagnosis processor. The fiber optic sensor is configured to be disposed over a target. The collection processor is configured to perform a collection process that collects measurement data related to the target obtained by the fiber optic sensor. The self-diagnosis processor is configured to perform a self-diagnosis process before the collection processor starts the collection process. The self-diagnosis process obtains an output value related to calibration of the fiber optic sensor, causes the collection processor to start the collection process when the output value falls within a proper range, and outputs an error when the output value falls outside the proper range.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Soejima
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Publication number: 20200005250Abstract: An aircraft management system includes a sensor, a diagnosis executor, and an outputter. The sensor is loaded onto an aircraft. The diagnosis executor diagnoses health of a part of the aircraft on a basis of output from the sensor while the aircraft is flying. The outputter outputs a request signal requesting a part replacement to an outside of the aircraft through wireless communication, when a replacement of the part is determined to be necessary as a result of diagnosis of the health.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki SOEJIMA
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Publication number: 20190368904Abstract: An optical inspection system includes an optical fiber sensor, an optical filter, a signal processor, and a corrector. The optical fiber sensor outputs a first optical signal having a temporal change in a wavelength corresponding to a temporal change in an amplitude of a vibration propagating in an inspection target object or a temporal change in a displacement of the inspection target object. The optical filter converts the first optical signal into a second optical signal having a temporal change in an intensity. The signal processor acquires inspection information on the inspection target object on the basis of the second optical signal. The corrector corrects a correspondence relationship between the temporal change in the wavelength and the temporal change in the intensity by changing a wavelength characteristic of the optical filter. The correspondence relationship is directed to converting the first optical signal into the second optical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki SOEJIMA, Toshimichi OGISU
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Publication number: 20190310232Abstract: A diagnosis device includes a data acquirer, a data recorder, and a health diagnoser. The data acquirer acquires a measurement data of a structure at a predetermined timing. The data recorder causes a storage to store the measurement data acquired by the data acquirer as a standard data. The health diagnoser diagnoses a health of the structure by comparing the measurement data that is acquired by the data acquirer this time with the standard data that has been acquired by the data acquirer last time and stored in the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki SOEJIMA