Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Takeda

Kazuhiro Takeda 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: 9867748
    Abstract: An air mattress include a plurality of air cell groups including a plurality of bladder-shaped cells and lined up with respect to the lengthwise direction of the air mattress so as to support at least a head area, shoulder area, back area, buttock, thigh area, knee area, and heel area of a person lying on the air mattress, an air supply/release pump; and an air tube connecting the bladder-shaped cells and the air supply/release pump in one or a plurality of independent first systems for each of the air cell groups out of the air cell groups and one or a plurality of independent second systems for each of specific bladder-shaped cells out of the plurality of air cell groups. Each of the air cell groups corresponding to the back area, buttock area, and thigh area includes a lower section of bladder-shaped cells and an upper section of bladder-shaped cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Shuichi Aoki, Shinji Ueki, Kenta Ohno
  • Patent number: 9845807
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor control device configured to control a flow rate of a compressor having a plurality of impellers connected to an outlet port-side flow path in parallel and a flow rate regulation unit configured to regulate a flow rate of each of the impellers, the compressor control device including a pressure detection unit configured to detect a pressure of the outlet port-side flow path, a flow rate detection unit configured to detect the flow rate of each of the impellers, and a control unit configured to output a flow rate regulation command of each of the impellers to the flow rate regulation unit and control the flow rate regulation unit based on the detection result of the pressure detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Yosuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9747857
    Abstract: A display device includes: data-line pairs arranged side by side along a first direction; gate lines arranged side by side along a second direction; a display section including pixels each disposed at an intersection of a data-line pair and a gate line and connected to one or both of the data-line pair; a data-line drive circuit supplying a positive-phase data signal to one of the data-line pair and a negative-phase data signal to the other, and allowing the data-line pair to stay in a high-impedance state before writing of an image signal to the pixels; and a short circuit putting the data-line pair in a short-circuit state while the data-line pair stays in the high-impedance state, and then releasing the short-circuit state Following the release of the short-circuit state, the positive-phase data signal or/and the negative-phase data signal are written into the pixel as the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Andou, Kouzi Tsukamoto, Takamitsu Urakawa, Kazuhiro Takeda, Keiko Kawaguchi, Taizou Hoshihara, Kouichi Hashikaki
  • Patent number: 9648675
    Abstract: An LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first LED array that is annularly arranged on a mounting board and includes first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that is arranged within an inner circumference of the first LED array on the mounting board, includes second LED elements connected in series, and emits light having an emission color different from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch arranged in series on a path through which current flows to the second LED array; and a constant power output circuit, wherein the number of the first LED elements is greater than the number of the second LED elements, and a total forward voltage of the first LED array is greater than a total forward voltage of the second LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuhiro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170110646
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a dopant composition-nanomaterial composite, which method makes it possible to simply and efficiently change a Seebeck coefficient value of a nanomaterial. This manufacture method of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) putting a dopant composition in contact with a nanomaterial in a solvent; (b) drying a mixture obtained in the step (a) so as to remove the solvent, the dopant composition containing a given anion and an onium ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nonoguchi, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Fumihiko Kamikonya, Kenji Ohashi, Kazuhiro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170012233
    Abstract: A substrate (110) includes corners (112). An insulating layer (170) includes first openings (172). A light emitting element (102) overlaps the first opening (172), and includes an organic layer (130). At least one layer of the organic layer (130), for example, a hole injection layer, is a coated film, and other layers thereof are vapor-deposited films. Meanwhile, all the layers of the organic layer (130) may be coated films. At least one layer of the organic layer (130) which is a coated film is also located on the insulating layer (170), and includes a protruding region (132) protruding toward the corner (112) of the substrate (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Daisuke MASUDA, Masanobu AKAGI, Yutaka SAITO, Kazuhiro TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 9430971
    Abstract: An electro-optical unit includes pixels provided correspondingly to portions where a plurality of pairs of data lines and a plurality of gate lines intersect with each other. Each of the pixels has an electro-optical device and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a holding circuit connected with one of the plurality of pairs of data lines and one of the plurality of gate lines, and a selection circuit connected with an output of the holding circuit and the electro-optical device. The holding circuit is capable of sampling and holding a first image signal to be applied to one of the pair of the data lines, while sampling and holding a second image signal to be applied to the other of the pair of the data lines. The selection circuit is capable of outputting the first image signal and the second image signal to the electro-optical device selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouzi Tsukamoto, Kazuhiro Takeda, Takamitsu Urakawa, Naoki Andou, Kazutoshi Ono
  • Patent number: 9380661
    Abstract: An LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention including: a first LED array including first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that includes second LED elements connected in series and emits light having an emission color different from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch that is provided between the two LED arrays and switches between a first current path to the first LED array and a second current path to the second LED array; a constant power output circuit that outputs the same power value to a current path through which current flows before the switching and a current path through which current flows after the switching, wherein a total forward voltage of the first LED array is different from a total forward voltage of the second LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 9271354
    Abstract: A straight tube LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first LED array including first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that includes second LED elements connected in series, and emits light having a different emission color from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch provided in a path through which current flows to the second LED array; and a constant power output circuit that outputs power without changing a total value of the power, wherein the number of the first LED elements connected in series is greater than the number of the second LED elements connected in series, a total forward voltage of the first LED array is greater than a total forward voltage of the second LED array, and the first LED elements are in alignment with the second LED elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 9247602
    Abstract: An LED lamp is used being connected to an external switch for performing an ON-OFF operation. The LED lamp, when causing a light emitting module to emit light in a first lighting mode, controls a power supply circuit to cause the light emitting module to emit light at a first brightness for a predetermined time period from when a timer circuit is activated, and to cause the light emitting module to emit light at a second brightness lower than the first brightness, after passage of the predetermined time period. The LED lamp, when causing the light emitting module to emit light in a second lighting mode, controls the power supply circuit to cause the light emitting module to continue to emit light at the first brightness irrespective of a state of the timer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuhiro Takeda, Toshiaki Isogai
  • Publication number: 20160008198
    Abstract: An air mattress include a plurality of air cell groups including a plurality of bladder-shaped cells and lined up with respect to the lengthwise direction of the air mattress so as to support at least a head area, shoulder area, back area, buttock, thigh area, knee area, and heel area of a person lying on the air mattress, an air supply/release pump; and an air tube connecting the bladder-shaped cells and the air supply/release pump in one or a plurality of independent first systems for each of the air cell groups out of the air cell groups and one or a plurality of independent second systems for each of specific bladder-shaped cells out of the plurality of air cell groups. Each of the air cell groups corresponding to the back area, buttock area, and thigh area includes a lower section of bladder-shaped cells and an upper section of bladder-shaped cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKEDA, Shuichi AOKI, Shinji UEKI, Kenta OHNO
  • Patent number: 9226374
    Abstract: An illumination light source includes: a light-emitting unit; a disturbance detecting unit which detects a specific disturbance; a timer circuit that times a first period and a second period, the first period starting from when the disturbance detecting unit detects the specific disturbance, a second period immediately following after the first period; and a driving circuit that turns ON the light-emitting unit at a start of the first period, causes the light-emitting unit to emit light during the first period, causes the light-emitting unit to emit light that is different from the light emitted during the second period, and turns OFF the light-emitting unit at an end of the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Kazushige Sugita, Akira Takahashi, Tatsumi Setomoto, Tomohiro Kamitsu
  • Patent number: 9191038
    Abstract: A wireless bicycle communication apparatus comprises an information receiver and a wireless transmitter. The information receiver is configured to receive first information and second information from a first bicycle component and a second bicycle component. The first information relates to the first bicycle component. The second information relates to the second bicycle component. The information receiver is configured to receive at least one of the first information and the second information via an electrical communication wiring. The wireless transmitter is configured to periodically transmit wireless signals based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Ryuji Abe, Kazuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 9114048
    Abstract: Provided is an air mattress capable of preventing the occurrence of decubitus ulcers in a person lying on the air mattress. The air mattress has a plurality of air cell groups made from a plurality of bladder-shaped cells and lined up with respect to the lengthwise direction of the air mattress so as to support at least a head area, shoulder area, back area, buttock, thigh area, knee area, and heel area of a person lying on said air mattress; an air supply/release pump; and an air tube connecting said bladder-shaped cells and said air supply/release pump in one or a plurality of independent first systems for each of the air cell groups out of said air cell groups and one or a plurality of independent second systems for each of specific bladder-shaped cells out of the plurality of air cell groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Shuichi Aoki, Shinji Ueki, Kenta Ohno
  • Publication number: 20150237698
    Abstract: An LED lamp is used being connected to an external switch for performing an ON-OFF operation. The LED lamp, when causing a light emitting module to emit light in a first lighting mode, controls a power supply circuit to cause the light emitting module to emit light at a first brightness for a predetermined time period from when a timer circuit is activated, and to cause the light emitting module to emit light at a second brightness lower than the first brightness, after passage of the predetermined time period. The LED lamp, when causing the light emitting module to emit light in a second lighting mode, controls the power supply circuit to cause the light emitting module to continue to emit light at the first brightness irrespective of a state of the timer circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro TAKEDA, Toshiaki ISOGAI
  • Publication number: 20150235604
    Abstract: A display device includes: data-line pairs arranged side by side along a first direction; gate lines arranged side by side along a second direction; a display section including pixels each disposed at an intersection of a data-line pair and a gate line and connected to one or both of the data-line pair; a data-line drive circuit supplying a positive-phase data signal to one of the data-line pair and a negative-phase data signal to the other, and allowing the data-line pair to stay in a high-impedance state before writing of an image signal to the pixels; and a short circuit putting the data-line pair in a short-circuit state while the data-line pair stays in the high-impedance state, and then releasing the short-circuit state Following the release of the short-circuit state, the positive-phase data signal or/and the negative-phase data signal are written into the pixel as the mage signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Naoki Andou, Kouzi Tsukamoto, Takamitsu Urakawa, Kazuhiro Takeda, Keiko Kawaguchi, Taizou Hoshihara, Kouichi Hashikaki
  • Publication number: 20150180517
    Abstract: A wireless bicycle communication apparatus comprises an information receiver and a wireless transmitter. The information receiver is configured to receive first information and second information from a first bicycle component and a second bicycle component. The first information relates to the first bicycle component. The second information relates to the second bicycle component. The information receiver is configured to receive at least one of the first information and the second information via an electrical communication wiring. The wireless transmitter is configured to periodically transmit wireless signals based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Ryuji ABE, Kazuhiro TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20150139776
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor control device configured to control a flow rate of a compressor having a plurality of impellers connected to an outlet port-side flow path in parallel and a flow rate regulation unit configured to regulate a flow rate of each of the impellers, the compressor control device including a pressure detection unit configured to detect a pressure of the outlet port-side flow path, a flow rate detection unit configured to detect the flow rate of each of the impellers, and a control unit configured to output a flow rate regulation command of each of the impellers to the flow rate regulation unit and control the flow rate regulation unit based on the detection result of the pressure detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Yosuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20150123572
    Abstract: An illumination light source includes: a light-emitting unit; a disturbance detecting unit which detects a specific disturbance; a timer circuit that times a first period and a second period, the first period starting from when the disturbance detecting unit detects the specific disturbance, a second period immediately following after the first period; and a driving circuit that turns ON the light-emitting unit at a start of the first period, causes the light-emitting unit to emit light during the first period, causes the light-emitting unit to emit light that is different from the light emitted during the second period, and turns OFF the light-emitting unit at an end of the second period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Kazushige Sugita, Akira Takahashi, Tatsumi Setomoto, Tomohiro Kamitsu
  • Patent number: 9024922
    Abstract: A display device includes: data-line pairs arranged side by side along a first direction; gate lines arranged side by side along a second direction; a display section including pixels each disposed at an intersection of a data-line pair and a gate line and connected to one or both of the data-line pair; a data-line drive circuit supplying a positive-phase data signal to one of the data-line pair and a negative-phase data signal to the other, and allowing the data-line pair to stay in a high-impedance state before writing of an image signal to the pixels; and a short circuit putting the data-line pair in a short-circuit state while the data-line pair stays in the high-impedance state, and then releasing the short-circuit state Following the release of the short-circuit state, the positive-phase data signal or/and the negative-phase data signal are written into the pixel as the mage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Andou, Kouzi Tsukamoto, Takamitsu Urakawa, Kazuhiro Takeda, Keiko Kawaguchi, Taizou Hoshihara, Kouichi Hashikaki