Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kondo

Tadashi 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: 11566927
    Abstract: An optical measurement device is provided with: a light source that irradiates, with light, a measurement object which has a fluid flowing thereinside; a light receiving unit which, upon receipt of scattered light from the measurement object irradiated with light, outputs a light reception signal according to the intensity of the scattered light; a disturbance generation unit which generates a disturbance signal for causing oscillation of a drive current to be supplied to the light source; and an adjustment unit which adjust the drive current on the basis of the result of a comparison between the disturbance signal and a signal generated on the basis of the light reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: AIR WATER BIODESIGN INC., NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tateishi, Mitsuru Sato, Tadashi Kondo, Wataru Onodera, Tomoya Murakami, Akari Agata, Genki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11480981
    Abstract: This temperature control device is provided with: an endothermic/exothermic unit that heats or cools a subject to be subjected to temperature control; a temperature detection unit that detects the first temperature of the periphery of the subject; a control unit that controls the endothermic/exothermic unit on the basis of a variable target temperature; and a variable target temperature setter that sets the variable target temperature to a first variable target temperature on the basis of the first temperature and target temperature information indicating the target temperature. With such temperature control device, since the target temperature changes to a suitable value as needed, a time needed until the temperature of the subject reaches the target temperature can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: AIR WATER BIODESIGN INC., NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tadashi Kondo, Kiyoshi Tateishi, Tomoya Murakami, Akari Agata, Genki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11307572
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication portion, a communication device, and, a first signal conversion portion. The communication device includes a reception portion that receives two or more types of operation signals, an obtainment portion that obtains a conversion program for converting the operation signal into the remote instruction signal, a storage portion configured to store the conversion program, a second signal conversion portion configured to convert the operation signal into the remote instruction signal using the conversion program, and a communication device communication portion that sends the remote instruction signal to the vehicle communication portion. The communication device includes an update portion configured to update information stored in the storage portion so as to enable addition, deletion, or change of one or more of the operation signals that are convertible by the second signal conversion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Koji Hika, Tadashi Kondo, Kuniyoshi Shirai, Nobutoshi Kajiya, Shinya Goto
  • Patent number: 11080119
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with: a first processing unit that generates first information by performing first processing with respect to sensor information acquired from a sensor; a second processing unit that generates second information by performing, with respect to the first information, second processing that is different from the first processing; and a third processing unit, which generates third information by performing, with respect to the first information, third processing, i.e., processing that corresponds to at least a part of the second processing, and which acquires the second information, and outputs the second information and the third information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tadashi Kondo, Wataru Onodera, Tomoya Murakami, Akari Agata, Genki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210133016
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with: a first processing unit that generates first information by performing first processing with respect to sensor information acquired from a sensor; a second processing unit that generates second information by performing, with respect to the first information, second processing that is different from the first processing; and a third processing unit, which generates third information by performing, with respect to the first information, third processing, i.e., processing that corresponds to at least a part of the second processing, and which acquires the second information, and outputs the second information and the third information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Tadashi KONDO, Wataru ONODERA, Tomoya MURAKAMI, Akari AGATA, Genki ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200284628
    Abstract: An optical measurement device is provided with: a light source that irradiates, with light, a measurement object which has a fluid flowing thereinside; a light receiving unit which, upon receipt of scattered light from the measurement object irradiated with light, outputs a light reception signal according to the intensity of the scattered light; a disturbance generation unit which generates a disturbance signal for causing oscillation of a drive current to be supplied to the light source; and an adjustment unit which adjust the drive current on the basis of the result of a comparison between the disturbance signal and a signal generated on the basis of the light reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kiyoshi TATEISHI, Mitsuru SATO, Tadashi KONDO, Wataru ONODERA, Tomoya MURAKAMI, Akari AGATA, Genki ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200026315
    Abstract: This temperature control device is provided with: an endothermic/exothermic unit that heats or cools a subject to be subjected to temperature control; a temperature detection unit that detects the first temperature of the periphery of the subject; a control unit that controls the endothermic/exothermic unit on the basis of a variable target temperature; and a variable target temperature setter that sets the variable target temperature to a first variable target temperature on the basis of the first temperature and target temperature information indicating the target temperature. With such temperature control device, since the target temperature changes to a suitable value as needed, a time needed until the temperature of the subject reaches the target temperature can be shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi KONDO, Kiyoshi TATEISHI, Tomoya MURAKAMI, Akari AGATA, Genki ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20190204822
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication portion, a communication device, and, a first signal conversion portion. The communication device includes a reception portion that receives two or more types of operation signals, an obtainment portion that obtains a conversion program for converting the operation signal into the remote instruction signal, a storage portion configured to store the conversion program, a second signal conversion portion configured to convert the operation signal into the remote instruction signal using the conversion program, and a communication device communication portion that sends the remote instruction signal to the vehicle communication portion. The communication device includes an update portion configured to update information stored in the storage portion so as to enable addition, deletion, or change of one or more of the operation signals that are convertible by the second signal conversion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Koji HIKA, Tadashi KONDO, Kuniyoshi SHIRAI, Nobutoshi KAJIYA, Shinya GOTO
  • Patent number: 9963040
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply system supplies electric power in a non-contact manner from a power transmission device to a vehicle. The power transmission device includes an impedance adjusting unit configured to adjust an impedance between a power supply unit and a power transmission unit. A vehicle ECU assists an alignment between the power transmission unit and the power receiving unit in the parking operation based on a power transmission efficiency between the power transmission unit and the power receiving unit. A power transmission ECU, at the time of the alignment in the parking operation, controls the impedance adjusting unit based on a distance between the power transmission unit and the power receiving unit in a vertical direction (vehicle height). Accordingly, lowering of the power transmission efficiency caused by a change in an impedance along with a change in the vehicle height can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Gorai, Shinji Ichikawa, Tadashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 9680530
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply apparatus is configured to transmit power in a non-contact manner from a primary-side coil to a secondary-side coil by supplying alternating current power to the primary-side coil. The non-contact power supply apparatus is provided with an alternating current power output unit, a power transmitting unit, wiring, a detecting unit, and a determining unit. The alternating current power output unit is capable of outputting alternating current power. The power transmitting unit has the primary-side coil. The wiring electrically connects the alternating current power output unit and the power transmitting unit to each other. The detecting unit detects a ratio between an output voltage and an output current, which are outputted from the alternating current power output unit, or a phase difference between the output voltage and the output current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventor: Tadashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 9634636
    Abstract: A non-contact power transmission device equipped with a ground-side device and a vehicle-side device. The ground-side device has a primary-side coil to which alternating-current power is input. The vehicle-side device includes a secondary-side coil, a battery, a secondary-side matching device, and a charging device. The secondary-side coil receives alternating-current power from the primary-side coil in a non-contact manner. The secondary-side matching device is provided between the secondary-side coil and the battery, and has a predetermined fixed inductance and fixed capacitance. The charging device has a switching element that performs a switching operation with a prescribed cycle. The charging device adjusts the duty ratio of the switching operation in accordance with the impedance of a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Koike, Tadashi Kondo, Hiroshi Katsunaga, Yuichi Taguchi, Hiroki Togano, Keisuke Matsukura, Keisuke Inoue, Yuki Tsunekawa, Takuma Ono
  • Patent number: 9373971
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system contactlessly transmits electric power from a power transmitting device to a vehicle. The vehicle includes: a power receiving unit that contactlessly receives electric power from the power transmitting device; an electrical storage device that stores electric power received by the power receiving unit; and an impedance adjustment unit that includes a DC/DC converter and a relay and that is used to adjust an impedance between the power receiving unit and the electrical storage device. A vehicle ECU switches between a power supply path of which the impedance is adjusted by the DC/DC converter and a power supply path that does not use the DC/DC converter on the basis of a state of charge of the electrical storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Tadashi Kondo, Naoki Gorai
  • Publication number: 20160084798
    Abstract: An analysis method includes the steps of performing two-dimensional electrophoresis of analysis objects in an isoelectric direction and in a molecular weight direction that is substantially perpendicular to the isoelectric direction, cutting a medium containing the analysis objects, which have been subjected to the two-dimensional electrophoresis, in a lattice pattern along cut planes in the isoelectric direction and along cut planes in the molecular weight direction, and comparing the analysis objects between the cut mediums.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, National Cancer Center
    Inventors: Hideki KINOSHITA, Yutaka UNUMA, Tadashi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20150255991
    Abstract: A power receiving device receives alternating current power in a wireless manner from a power supply device including an alternating current power supply and a primary coil. The power receiving device includes a secondary coil, a variable load, an impedance conversion unit, and an acknowledgement unit. Under a situation in which the acknowledgement unit acknowledges that the value of the alternating current power output from the alternating current power supply is unvaried, the impedance of the impedance conversion unit is variably controlled when an electrical property that is dependent on a relative position of the primary coil and the secondary coil varies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki Tsunekawa, Tadashi Kondo, Tsuyoshi Koike, Hiroshi Katsunaga, Keisuke Matsukura, Yuichi Taguchi, Hiroki Togano, Keisuke Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150251545
    Abstract: A power receiving device receives alternating current power in a wireless manner from a power supply device including a primary coil that receives the alternating current power. The power receiving device includes a secondary coil, a variable load, a first impedance conversion unit, a second impedance conversion unit, a fixed load, and a switch. The switch switches an output destination, to which the alternating current power received by the secondary coil is output from the first impedance conversion unit, to the fixed load or to the second impedance conversion unit and the variable load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Keisuke Matsukura, Tadashi Kondo, Tsuyoshi Koike, Hiroshi Katsunaga, Yuichi Taguchi, Hiroki Togano, Keisuke Inoue, Yuki Tsunekawa, Takuma Ono, Yutaka Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20150239354
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply system supplies electric power in a non-contact manner from a power transmission device to a vehicle. The power transmission device includes an impedance adjusting unit configured to adjust an impedance between a power supply unit and a power transmission unit. A vehicle ECU assists an alignment between the power transmission unit and the power receiving unit in the parking operation based on a power transmission efficiency between the power transmission unit and the power receiving unit. A power transmission ECU, at the time of the alignment in the parking operation, controls the impedance adjusting unit based on a distance between the power transmission unit and the power receiving unit in a vertical direction (vehicle height). Accordingly, lowering of the power transmission efficiency caused by a change in an impedance along with a change in the vehicle height can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Gorai, Shinji Ichikawa, Tadashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 9106088
    Abstract: A non-contact power transmission apparatus includes a high-frequency converting section, which converts input voltage to high-frequency voltage and outputs it, a primary coil, which receives high-frequency voltage from the high-frequency converting section, and a secondary coil, which receives electric power from the primary coil. The non-contact power transmission apparatus further includes a load to which the electric power received by the secondary coil is supplied, a rectifier located between the secondary coil and the load, and an output adjusting section, which supplies, as pulses, output voltage to the high-frequency converting section. The output adjusting section is configured to increase or reduce output to the load by adjusting a duty cycle of the pulse output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Tadashi Kondo, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Sadanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda
  • Publication number: 20150171820
    Abstract: A non-contact power transmission device equipped with a ground-side device and a vehicle-side device. The ground-side device has a primary-side coil to which alternating-current power is input. The vehicle-side device includes a secondary-side coil, a battery, a secondary-side matching device, and a charging device. The secondary-side coil receives alternating-current power from the primary-side coil in a non-contact manner. The secondary-side matching device is provided between the secondary-side coil and the battery, and has a predetermined fixed inductance and fixed capacitance. The charging device has a switching element that performs a switching operation with a prescribed cycle. The charging device adjusts the duty ratio of the switching operation in accordance with the impedance of a load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Koike, Tadashi Kondo, Hiroshi Katsunaga, Yuichi Taguchi, Hiroki Togano, Keisuke Matsukura, Keisuke Inoue, Yuki Tsunekawa, Takuma Ono
  • Publication number: 20140333258
    Abstract: A contactless power transmission device is provided with an AC power source, a primary coil, a secondary coil, an electric component and a power factor calculation unit. The primary coil is supplied with AC power from the AC power source. The secondary coil is allowed to receive AC power from the primary coil. The electric component is supplied with the AC power that is received by the secondary coil. The power factor calculation unit calculates at least either the power factor with respect to the load from the output of the AC power source to the electric component, or the power factor with respect to the load from the output of the secondary coil to the electric component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Keisuke Matsukura, Tadashi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20140320079
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply apparatus is configured to transmit power in a non-contact manner from a primary-side coil to a secondary-side coil by supplying alternating current power to the primary-side coil. The non-contact power supply apparatus is provided with an alternating current power output unit, a power transmitting unit, wiring, a detecting unit, and a determining unit. The alternating current power output unit is capable of outputting alternating current power. The power transmitting unit has the primary-side coil. The wiring electrically connects the alternating current power output unit and the power transmitting unit to each other. The detecting unit detects a ratio between an output voltage and an output current, which are outputted from the alternating current power output unit, or a phase difference between the output voltage and the output current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventor: Tadashi Kondo