Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Takano

Nobuhiro Takano 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).

  • Publication number: 20140374130
    Abstract: An impact tool includes a motor, a hammer, an anvil, and a control unit. The hammer is configured to be driven by the motor and be movable in an axial direction of the motor. The anvil is configured to be struck by the hammer. The control unit is configured to control a rotation of the motor. The impact tool further includes a restricting unit configured to restrict the movement of the hammer in the axial direction. The control unit is configured to select a driving mode of the motor between a first mode and a second mode. The control unit selects the first mode when a load of the motor is less than or equal to a prescribed value regardless of a restriction of the restricting unit, whereas the control unit selects the second mode when the load exceeds the prescribe value and the restricting unit restricts the movement of the hammer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Mizuho Nakamura, Nobuhiro Takano, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Hironori Mashiko
  • Patent number: 8917037
    Abstract: The power circuit comprises a voltage conversion part converting an input voltage entered in accordance with a voltage of a power source to generate an output voltage and outputting the generated output voltage to the motor and a current detection part outputting a first signal in accordance with a current flowing through a given part of the power circuit. The voltage conversion part lowers the voltage value of new output voltage being generated when the current detection part outputs the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Funabashi, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Patent number: 8872450
    Abstract: The power circuit comprises a voltage conversion part converting an input voltage entered in accordance with a voltage of a power source to generate an output voltage and outputting the generated output voltage to the motor and a current detection part outputting a first signal in accordance with a current flowing through a given part of the power circuit. The voltage conversion part lowers the voltage value of new output voltage being generated when the current detection part outputs the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Funabashi, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Patent number: 8816544
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes a housing, a brushless motor, an output shaft, and a motor driver circuit. The housing defines an axial direction. The brushless motor is accommodated in the housing and having a drive shaft. The output shaft extends in a direction generally perpendicular to the drive shaft. The motor driver circuit is accommodated in the housing for driving the brushless motor. The housing has a cylindrical shape and has a part functioning as a grip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Nobuhiro Takano, Nobuhito Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20140172802
    Abstract: An information processor coupled to a storage apparatus that stores information, includes: a creation unit configured to create a snapshot of a file system that manages first information stored in the storage apparatus and to output the snapshot to the storage apparatus; a writing unit configured to write second information stored in cache memory onto the storage apparatus after the snapshot has been created; and a replication instruction unit configured to instruct the storage apparatus to create a replication of the first information stored in the storage apparatus after the second information has been written and the snapshot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Norihito KATO, Nobuhiro TAKANO, Norichika IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140158390
    Abstract: An electric tool including: a motor; a tip tool configured to be rotationally driven by the motor; and a control unit configured to control the rotation of the motor and including a microprocessor and a memory unit, wherein the memory unit is configured to store control information by learning a use state of the motor, and wherein the motor is configured to be driven according to the stored control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mashiko, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Publication number: 20140130645
    Abstract: First, second and third sensors 11, 12 and 13 emit electromagnetic waves, receive electromagnetic waves emitted by the first, second and third sensors 11, 12 and 13 and reflected by an object 9 or electromagnetic wave emitted by the object 9 that received the electromagnetic waves emitted by the first, second and third sensors 11, 12 and 13, and specify distances between themselves and the object 9, respectively, based on time differences between emissions and receptions of the electromagnetic waves, and a control section 3 specifies three-dimensional coordinates of the object 9 based on the distances between the respective sensors 11, 12 and 13 and the object 9, determines whether or not the three-dimensional coordinate of the object 9 falls within a predetermined region and stops a motor when the three-dimensional coordinates of the object 9 falls within the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Takano, Shigeharu Ushiwata, Hiromi Ozawa, Yoshikazu Kawano
  • Publication number: 20140069672
    Abstract: A power tool includes: a motor configured to be driven based on one of a plurality of drive modes; a mode section switch; a control portion. The control portion is configured to operate responsive to a first operation to assign one or more drive modes preselected from the plurality of drive modes to the mode selection switch. A second operation different from the first operation is capable of manipulating the mode selection switch to select one drive mode from the one or more preselected drive modes, the control portion being further configured to control the motor based on the one drive mode selected by the mode selection switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Mashiko, Nobuhiro Takano, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Atsushi Nakagawa, Masanori Watanabe, Mizuho Nakamura, Katsuhiro Oomori
  • Patent number: 8667262
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first recording medium that stores a first system controller for allowing to execute boot processing of the information processing apparatus and is accessed by using a first access path in a tree structure or by using a second access path based on a first conversion table representing a correspondence between the first and second access path; a memory disk generation section allowing to secure a memory disk section that operates as a second recording medium and is accessed by using a third access path; a conversion table generation section allowing to generate a second conversion table representing a correspondence between the second and third access path; and a duplication controller allowing to copy the first system controller onto the memory disk section as a second system controller and allowing to duplicate the first and second system controllers based on the second conversion table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masaru Nukada, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Patent number: 8640789
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, an oil pulse tool includes: a motor generating a driving force according to a driving voltage; an oil pulse unit driven by the driving force and generating a torque in a pulse-like shape when the motor passes a strike position on a shaft thereof; and an output shaft on which a front end tool is mounted, the output shaft being connected to the shaft, characterized in that the oil pulse tool further comprises driving adjusting means to control the driving voltage, the driving voltage is reduced during a given period including a timing when the torque is transmitted to the output shaft, and the reduced driving voltage is increased when the given period is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Harada, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Kazutaka Iwata, Shiniki Otsu, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Patent number: 8633839
    Abstract: A size comparison unit reports, to an access control unit, the size of a piece of compressed data having the smallest size from among pieces of compressed data generated via compression processing units compressing blocks, an algorithm name representing a compression processing unit that has generated the piece of compressed data having the smallest size; the access control unit selects a piece of compressed data to be written in a tape medium and reports, to a statistical information processing unit, an algorithm name representing a compression processing unit that has generated this selected piece of compressed data; the statistical information processing unit extracts, from the reported algorithm name, a regularity present in a result of the selection of compressed data and, in accordance with this extracted regularity, specifies and stops a compression processing unit to be stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Takano
  • Publication number: 20140015451
    Abstract: A power tool system includes: a power tool including an AC motor; a portable battery pack; and a power supply device that converts a DC power supplied from the portable battery pack into an AC power to supply the AC power to the AC motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Funabashi, Nobuhiro Takano, Yoshikazu Kawano, Yasushi Nakano, Yuki Horie née Nitanai, Shinji Watanabe, Miyoji Onose, Haruhisa Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20130333910
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an impact tool includes: a motor; and a hammer that is connected to the motor and that has a striking-side surface; and an anvil that is journalled to be rotatable with respect to the hammer, that has a struck-side surface and that provides a striking power to a tip tool, wherein the motor is drivable in: a first driving mode in which the motor is continuously driven in a normal rotation; a second driving mode in which the motor is intermittently driven only in the normal rotation; and a third driving mode in which the motor is intermittently driven in the normal rotation and in a reverse rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Nobuhiro Takano, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Kazutaka Iwata, Hironori Mashiko, Hayato Yamaguchi, Atsushi Nakagawa, Katsuhiro Oomori, Mizuho Nakamura, Hiroki Uchida, Saroma Nakano
  • Patent number: 8607892
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rotary striking tool includes: a motor; an oil pulse unit that is driven by the motor; an output shaft that is coupled to the oil pulse unit so that a tip tool can be attached to the output shaft; a first detection unit that detects a rotation angle of the motor and outputs a first output signal; a second detection unit that detects an impact generated at the oil pulse unit and outputs a second output signal; and a control unit that controls a rotation of the motor, wherein the control unit uses a portion of the second output signal based on the first output signal for control of the rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Iimura, Kenro Ishimaru, Kazutaka Iwata, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Publication number: 20130284480
    Abstract: In a power tool including: a housing having a body portion which houses a motor and a handle portion extending downward from the body portion; an output portion driven at the front of the motor; and a trigger switch which controls power supply from a battery to the motor, the motor, the battery, and the trigger switch are arranged so as to overlap each other in an intersecting direction with respect to a front-and-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki HORIE, Nobuhiro TAKANO, Kazuhiko FUNABASHI, Tomomasa NISHIKAWA, Yukihiro SHIMA, Takao ARADACHI
  • Publication number: 20130264087
    Abstract: A driving tool includes a motor, and an end-bit holding section. The motor includes an output shaft. The end-bit holding section is connected to and rotated by the motor and configured to hold an end-bit. The driving tool further includes a weight connected to the motor without a reduction mechanism and rotatable together with the motor and the end-bit holding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Harada, Nobuhiro Takano, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Hironori Mashiko
  • Patent number: 8543783
    Abstract: A compressing unit generates a plurality of types of compressed blocks for each of divided blocks of data, by using a plurality of algorithm executing units. A comparing unit stores, in a storage unit, comparison result information on a compressed block having the smallest size. A writing start determining unit makes a decision to start writing of a write block and compression of a next block, when a quotient obtained by dividing the size of the compressed block that is indicated in the comparison result information by a writing speed is determined to be less than or equal to an elapsed time. A writing unit selects, as a write block, a compressed block having the smallest size among the generated compressed blocks at the time the start decision is made by the writing start determining unit, and writes the selected write block to a block storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Takano, Noriko Usui
  • Patent number: 8517558
    Abstract: A power tool includes a body housing a motor and a power transmission mechanism positioned ahead of the motor for transmitting a power of the motor, a handle grip having an upper end portion connected to an approximately intermediate portion of the body and a lower end portion to which a battery is connected, a light emitting element positioned below the power transmission mechanism and receiving electrical power from the battery for illuminating a portion ahead of the body, and a trigger positioned below the power transmission mechanism for controlling a supply of the electrical power from the battery to the motor and to the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Oomori, Chikai Yoshimizu, Hidekazu Harada, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Publication number: 20130200831
    Abstract: A power supply device includes: an inverter that converts a DC power supplied from a battery pack into an AC power and outputs the AC power; and an adapter shapes a waveform of the AC power outputted from the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Yoshikazu Kawano, Nobuhiro Takano, Kazuhiko Funabashi
  • Patent number: 8497662
    Abstract: A charging device has a charging unit and a control unit. The charging unit charges a battery pack the battery pack being either a first type or a second type of battery pack. The first type of battery pack includes a single battery cell or a first plurality of battery cells connected in series. The second type of battery pack includes a single battery unit or a second plurality of battery units connected in series. Each battery unit includes at least two battery cells connected in parallel. The control unit controls the charging unit to control at least one of a charging current flowing through the battery pack and a charging voltage applied across the battery pack, depending on the battery pack to be charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Aradachi, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Nobuhiro Takano