Patents by Inventor Koji Kawaguchi

Koji Kawaguchi 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: 9915568
    Abstract: A circuit device including: a detection circuit (10) that performs A/D conversion of a first detection voltage (VD1) that is detected by using a thermopile (2), and outputs a first detection value (DT1) that is a digital value, and performs A/D conversion of a second detection voltage (VD2) that is detected by using a thermistor (4), and outputs a second detection value (DT2) that is a digital value; and a control unit (50) that obtains a self-temperature by using the second detection value (DT2), obtains a second electromotive voltage that corresponds to the self-temperature by using the self-temperature, obtains a first electromotive voltage that corresponds to an object's temperature by using the first detection value (DT1) and the second electromotive voltage, and obtains the object's temperature by using the first electromotive voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Onishi, Tsutae Hinata, Yukinari Shibata, Chihiro Fukumoto, Naoki Nishigaki, Koji Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180049355
    Abstract: A mounting device is provided with a first raising and lowering drive section that raises and lowers a syringe member to which a suction nozzle that picks up a component is attached, and a second raising and lowering drive section that raises and lowers the suction nozzle with respect to the syringe member to which the suction nozzle is attached. The mounting device controls a raising and lowering operation of the first raising and lowering drive section based on height information that includes at least one of information of the thickness of the component or information of the stage height of a transfer stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9882379
    Abstract: A power source system for supplying DC (direct current) power to a load, including first and second power source apparatuses and a control apparatus. The first power source apparatus is connected to an alternating current (AC) power source, and configured to convert AC power received from the AC power source to first DC power. The second power source apparatus is connected to a battery, and configured to convert power of the battery to second DC power. The control apparatus is connected to the first and second power source apparatuses, and configured to so control the first and second power source apparatuses that the DC power supplied to the load is the first DC power in a normal mode, the second DC power in a back-up mode, and a combination of the first and second DC power in an assist mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji Yamada, Koji Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Oguchi
  • Publication number: 20180027708
    Abstract: A mounting device is provided with a first raising and lowering drive section configured to raise and lower an entire syringe member to which a suction nozzle that picks up a component is attached, and a second raising and lowering drive section 34 that raises and lowers the suction nozzle only of the syringe member to which the suction nozzle is attached. The mounting device controls a raising and lowering operation of the first raising and lowering drive section based on height information that includes at least one of information of the thickness of the component and information of the height of a board. With the mounting device, it is possible to move the entire syringe member to which the suction nozzle 28 is attached to a position closer to the board in accordance with the height of the board and the thickness of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji KAWAGUCHI, Junichi NARITA, Mitsuru SANJI, Kenzo ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180006543
    Abstract: A component mounting device head unit includes a head main body, a nozzle being provided on the head main body, a drive source, a cover, and a heat transfer member. The nozzle is configured to pick up a component. The drive source is configured to transfer moving power to at least one of the head main body and the nozzle. The cover covers the drive source. The heat transfer member connects the cover to the drive source or a frame of the drive source, and the heat transfer member is configured to allow heat generated by the drive source to escape to the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji KAWAGUCHI, Junichi NARITA
  • Publication number: 20180000096
    Abstract: To provide a baked lotus root cake and a solid food that comprises, as a main ingredient, a lotus root powder with little risk of allergy. A baked lotus root cake characterized by being prepared by kneading under heating a mixture, said mixture comprising a lotus root powder as a main ingredient, and heating and pressurizing the kneaded matter thus obtained to give a thin sheet-shaped baked product. A solid food characterized by being prepared by heating a mixture, said mixture being free from wheat flour or egg and comprising a lotus root powder as a main ingredient, to give a baked product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Lotusweets Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Mine Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170342730
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately modifying a concrete slab on subsided ground by injecting an expandable resin below the concrete slab more than once, which also allows for easy control of the work process. The method of the present invention as a means for resolution includes performing the following steps: on a concrete slab in an area including a region where ground subsidence has occurred, determining points to drill injection holes for injecting an expandable resin at a pitch of 0.5 to 2.0 m in a grid pattern; injecting an expandable resin below a point where the subsidence of the concrete slab is severest and expanding the expandable resin to push up the concrete slab at most 30 mm more than once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: UPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Nobukazu MATSUDO, Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9832919
    Abstract: An electronic circuit component mounting head which mounts electronic circuit components to a circuit substrate is provided. The mounting head includes a rotating/raising/lowering axis held on a head main body as to be capable of rotation and of being raised/lowered, a suction nozzle held on the rotating/raising/lowering axis as to be capable of being raised/lowered and not capable of being rotated relatively, and the rotating/raising/lowering axis and suction nozzle can be rotated as necessary by an electric motor. A raising/lowering driving member is held on head main body as to be capable of being raised/lowered, and is raised/lowered by a first linear motor. A first engaging section of the raising/lowering driving member is engaged with the rotating/raising/lowering axis, and a second engaging section of a second linear motor is held on the raising/lowering driving member engaged with suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9769969
    Abstract: An electronic circuit component mounting head which mounts electronic circuit components to a circuit substrate is provided. The mounting head includes a rotating/raising/lowering axis held on a head main body as to be capable of rotation and of being raised/lowered, a suction nozzle held on the rotating/raising/lowering axis as to be capable of being raised/lowered and not capable of being rotated relatively, and the rotating/raising/lowering axis and suction nozzle can be rotated as necessary by an electric motor. A raising/lowering driving member is held on head main body as to be capable of being raised/lowered, and is raised/lowered by a first linear motor. A first engaging section of the raising/lowering driving member is engaged with the rotating/raising/lowering axis, and a second engaging section of a second linear motor is held on the raising/lowering driving member engaged with suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9673625
    Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit converting AC power to generate a DC voltage to be supplied to a loading device. The uninterruptible power supply apparatus further includes a first battery unit connected to the power supply unit to receive a DC current therefrom, and stores first DC power generated from the DC voltage. The first battery unit generates a DC voltage to be supplied to the loading device from the first DC power. The uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes a second battery unit connected in parallel to the power supply unit and stores second DC power, and generates, from the second DC power stored in the second battery unit, a DC voltage to be supplied to the loading device. The uninterruptible power supply apparatus further includes a controller for controlling operation of the power supply unit, the first battery unit and the second battery unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji Yamada, Kazuaki Mino, Ryuji Shimizu, Hirokazu Kadoi, Koji Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170079168
    Abstract: A system for mounting electronic components on a substrate includes component holders each configured to hold an electronic components to be mounted on the substrate. A revolving device is configured to revolve the component holders along a pre-determined path so that each one of the component holders is moveable into a component receiving location for receiving a respective electronic component and/or a component mounting location for mounting the respective electronic component on the substrate. An actuator is configured to actuate a respective component holder in the component receiving location and/or the component mounting location. A safety device is configured to determine whether the respective component holder to be actuated by the actuator is properly placed in an operative position on the revolving device. The safety device is arranged separately from the actuator and is spaced apart from the actuator along the pre-determined path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Frederik Arnell, Marc Kunze, Bruno Chichiricco
  • Patent number: 9563041
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical system for an infrared ray which can provide a bright image, and can be applied to fixed focal length lenses among wide-angle to medium-telephoto. To achieve the object, the optical system for an infrared ray is constituted by a first lens having negative refractive power and a second lens having positive refractive power, these are arranged sequentially from an object side, wherein both the first lens and the second lens are made of an infrared transmitting material that transmits a light beam in an infrared wavelength range of 3 micron-meters or more to 14 micron-meters or less, and at least one of the lenses is made of an infrared transmitting material excluding germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Yuko Watanabe, Shingo Fuse, Xiang Yu
  • Publication number: 20160192553
    Abstract: A mounting machine which mounts one or more components on a substrate includes: a mounting head which has a fiducial mark, holds the component, and moves the component onto the substrate; an imaging section which images the mounting head; setting means for setting, out of image data of the fiducial mark and component held by the moving mounting head captured by the imaging section, a processing region containing the component, based on the position of the fiducial mark; and detection means for detecting a state of the component which is held by the mounting head by processing the image data of the set processing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160037694
    Abstract: An electronic circuit component mounting machine including a suction nozzle lowered by a first linear motor and a second linear motor by two stages A drive circuit of the second linear motor includes a reaction force detecting section and a damage detecting section that detects damage of an electronic circuit component. A controller that controls the drive circuit includes an appropriate operation parameter determining section that determines an appropriate value of an operation parameter of the second linear motor using the reaction force detecting section and the damage detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160006242
    Abstract: A power source system for supplying DC (direct current) power to a load, including first and second power source apparatuses and a control apparatus. The first power source apparatus is connected to an alternating current (AC) power source, and configured to convert AC power received from the AC power source to first DC power. The second power source apparatus is connected to a battery, and configured to convert power of the battery to second DC power. The control apparatus is connected to the first and second power source apparatuses, and configured to so control the first and second power source apparatuses that the DC power supplied to the load is the first DC power in a normal mode, the second DC power in a back-up mode, and a combination of the first and second DC power in an assist mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji YAMADA, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hiroyuki OGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150349583
    Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a plurality of solar cell groups, a plurality of chopper units each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of solar cell groups and raises a DC voltage obtained from the corresponding solar cell group. Each of the plurality of chopper units includes a first operating point control unit that respectively controls an output current of the corresponding chopper unit to optimize an operating point of each of the plurality of solar cell groups so as to obtain maximum power from the respective solar cell groups, and an inverter, which receives the DC voltage obtained from the plurality of chopper units and outputs AC power. The inverter includes a second operating point control unit that controls the DC voltage obtained from the plurality of chopper units to optimize the operating point of each of the plurality of solar cell groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji YAMADA, Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150296668
    Abstract: An electronic circuit component mounting head which mounts electronic circuit components to a circuit substrate is provided. The mounting head includes a rotating/raising/lowering axis held on a head main body as to be capable of rotation and of being raised/lowered, a suction nozzle held on the rotating/raising/lowering axis as to be capable of being raised/lowered and not capable of being rotated relatively, and the rotating/raising/lowering axis and suction nozzle can be rotated as necessary by an electric motor. A raising/lowering driving member is held on head main body as to be capable of being raised/lowered, and is raised/lowered by a first linear motor. A first engaging section of the raising/lowering driving member is engaged with the rotating/raising/lowering axis, and a second engaging section of a second linear motor is held on the raising/lowering driving member engaged with suction nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150282398
    Abstract: An electronic circuit component mounting head which mounts electronic circuit components to a circuit substrate is provided. The mounting head includes a rotating/raising/lowering axis held on a head main body as to be capable of rotation and of being raised/lowered, a suction nozzle held on the rotating/raising/lowering axis as to be capable of being raised/lowered and not capable of being rotated relatively, and the rotating/raising/lowering axis and suction nozzle can be rotated as necessary by an electric motor. A raising/lowering driving member is held on head main body as to be capable of being raised/lowered, and is raised/lowered by a first linear motor. A first engaging section of the raising/lowering driving member is engaged with the rotating/raising/lowering axis, and a second engaging section of a second linear motor is held on the raising/lowering driving member engaged with suction nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Koji Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150276499
    Abstract: A circuit device including: a detection circuit (10) that performs A/D conversion of a first detection voltage (VD1) that is detected by using a thermopile (2), and outputs a first detection value (DT1) that is a digital value, and performs A/D conversion of a second detection voltage (VD2) that is detected by using a thermistor (4), and outputs a second detection value (DT2) that is a digital value; and a control unit (50) that obtains a self-temperature by using the second detection value (DT2), obtains a second electromotive voltage that corresponds to the self-temperature by using the self-temperature, obtains a first electromotive voltage that corresponds to an object's temperature by using the first detection value (DT1) and the second electromotive voltage, and obtains the object's temperature by using the first electromotive voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kota ONISHI, Tsutae HINATA, Yukinari SHIBATA, Chihiro FUKUMOTO, Naoki NISHIGAKI, Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150208673
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a baked lotus root cake and a solid food that comprises, as a main ingredient, a lotus root powder with little risk of allergy. [Solution] A baked lotus root cake characterized by being prepared by kneading under heating a mixture, said mixture comprising a lotus root powder as a main ingredient, and heating and pressurizing the kneaded matter thus obtained to give a thin sheet-shaped baked product. A solid food characterized by being prepared by heating a mixture, said mixture being free from wheat flour or egg and comprising a lotus root powder as a main ingredient, to give a baked product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Lotusweets Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Mine Kawaguchi