Patents by Inventor Takahiro Inada

Takahiro Inada 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: 20050268172
    Abstract: In the present invention, a first information processing apparatus displays a window for the content on a display device depending on operations to an input device; the first information processing apparatus obtains feedback operation logs including assessment information for the window and date-time information when the assessment information has been input; the first information processing apparatus obtains operation logs including operation information to the input device and date-time information when the operation has been input; the first information processing apparatus obtains communication logs including date-time information when the window has been displayed and information for identifying the window; the first information processing apparatus sends to a second information processing apparatus the feedback operation logs, the operation logs and the communication logs; the second information processing apparatus receives from the first information processing apparatus the feedback operation logs, th
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomi Uchinomiya, Katsumi Kawai, Yoshinobu Uchida, Ryota Mibe, Chiaki Hirai, Keiji Minamitanti, Takahiro Inada, Jun Shijo, Takafumi Kawasaki, Kaori Kashimura, Yuuki Hara
  • Patent number: 6917177
    Abstract: Provided is a robot arm mechanism that conveys and supports a work, which requires neither a traveling axis that demand a high installation accuracy nor a jig for fixedly supporting a work. A robot 1 includes: a parallel link mechanism 6 having a lower link 2 and an upper link 3, in which the lower link 2 and the upper link 3 are coupled with an arm 4 and an auxiliary link 5; a driving portion for driving one joint 12 of the lower link 2 in the parallel link mechanism; a parallel link mechanism 11 having a lower link 7 and an upper link 8 fixed on the upper link 3 in the parallel link mechanism 6, in which the lower link 7 and the upper link 8 are coupled with an arm 9 and an auxiliary link 10; a driving portion for driving one joint 15 of the upper link 8 in the parallel link mechanism 11; and an arm 17 fixed on the lower link 7 in the parallel link mechanism 11 and holding up an object for support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Maeguchi, Takahiro Inada
  • Patent number: 6748819
    Abstract: A robot is disclosed in which load torque imposed on motors is reduced and therefore small-sized motors can be used. In the robot, an arm member, a first link, a second link and a third link constitute a parallel linkage, and the first link and the third link are coaxially pivotally supported on a base. With a pivotal shaft for pivotally connecting the second link and the third link, one end of a fourth link having shorter link length than the link length of the third link is pivotally connected to the second and third links and one end of a fifth link having the same link length as that of the fourth link is pivotally connected to the other end of the fourth link. The other end of the fifth link is pivotally supported on the base with a pivotal shaft to which the rotary shaft of the motor is coupled, so that the fifth link can move according to the rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Maeguchi, Hiroyuki Takayama, Takahiro Inada
  • Publication number: 20040085038
    Abstract: Provided is a robot arm mechanism that conveys and supports a work, which requires neither a traveling axis that demand a high installation accuracy nor a jig for fixedly supporting a work. A robot 1 includes: a parallel link mechanism 6 having a lower link 2 and an upper link 3, in which the lower link 2 and the upper link 3 are coupled with an arm 4 and an auxiliary link 5; a driving portion for driving one joint 12 of the lower link 2 in the parallel link mechanism; a parallel link mechanism 11 having a lower link 7 and an upper link 8 fixed on the upper link 3 in the parallel link mechanism 6, in which the lower link 7 and the upper link 8 are coupled with an arm 9 and an auxiliary link 10; a driving portion for driving one joint 15 of the upper link 8 in the parallel link mechanism 11; and an arm 17 fixed on the lower link 7 in the parallel link mechanism 11 and holding up an object for support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Maeguchi, Takahiro Inada
  • Publication number: 20030066373
    Abstract: A robot is disclosed in which load torque imposed on motors is reduced and therefore small-sized motors can be used. In the robot, an arm member, a first link, a second link and a third link constitute a parallel linkage, and the first link and the third link are coaxially pivotally supported on a base. With a pivotal shaft for pivotally connecting the second link and the third link, one end of a fourth link having shorter link length than the link length of the third link is pivotally connected to the second and third links and one end of a fifth link having the same link length as that of the fourth link is pivotally connected to the other end of the fourth link. The other end of the fifth link is pivotally supported on the base with a pivotal shaft to which the rotary shaft of the motor is coupled, so that the fifth link can move according to the rotation of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Maeguchi, Hiroyuki Takayama, Takahiro Inada
  • Patent number: 6542071
    Abstract: When a “window automatic opening mode” is set in advance by a window automatic opening mode setting switch (14), and the user who carries a portable unit (1A) approaches an onboard unit, doors are automatically unlocked, and a window of a predetermined door is opened when the electric field strength of a radio signal from the portable unit (1A) becomes larger than a predetermined value. This function can be disabled by the window automatic opening mode setting switch (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ohtsubo, Kunihiko Matsumura, Takuji Oka, Kazuhiro Murashige, Tsuneo Kudou, Tsukasa Harada, Takahiro Inada, Norifumi Kanada
  • Patent number: 5678650
    Abstract: A vehicle drive control system performs a speed control, in which the vehicle is controlled to travel at a desired cruising speed, and a distance control, in which the vehicle is controlled to keep a safe distance from a vehicle ahead of the vehicle with the drive control. The system is equipped with a feature in which a speed of the preceding vehicle is estimated when a range finder, which monitors a distance from the preceding vehicle, loses sight of the preceding vehicle during the distance control so as to establish a target cruising speed which the subject vehicle ought to attain according to the estimated speed of the preceding vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ishihara, Takahiro Inada, Tsunehisa Okuda
  • Patent number: 5648905
    Abstract: A traveling control system for a motor vehicle includes a detector for detecting an object which exists in front of the motor vehicle to follow a vehicle traveling ahead. The system further includes a first course determination device for estimating a first course on which the motor vehicle will travel hereafter, an identification device for identifying an first target vehicle among the objects existing on the first course, and a second course estimation device for estimating, based on the first target vehicle, a second course on which the motor vehicle will travel hereafter at least while the first target vehicle is outside of the first course. The identification device identifies a second target vehicle among vehicles which travel on the first or second courses while the first target vehicle is outside of the first course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoji Izumi, Kenji Shimizu, Yoshiaki Sugamoto, Kazuyoshi Okuda, Satoru Ando, Toshihiro Ishihara, Takahiro Inada, Tsunehisa Okuda
  • Patent number: 5594645
    Abstract: In a vehicle which sets a target vehicle-interval distance, and can execute auto-cruise control for controlling the vehicle speed so as to maintain the target vehicle-interval distance, when the auto-cruise control is not executed, a vehicle-interval distance to be set by a driver is detected together with the vehicle speed at that time. A plurality of sets of the vehicle speed and vehicle-interval distance data are accumulated, and the relationship between the vehicle speed and the vehicle-interval distance is calculated. Upon execution of the auto-cruise control, a vehicle-interval distance corresponding to the vehicle speed at that time is obtained from the calculated relationship, and the obtained vehicle-interval distance is set to be the target vehicle-interval distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Nishimura, Tamio Hirasawa, Kazuyoshi Okuda, Satoru Ando, Takahiro Inada, Tsunehisa Okuda, Tomoji Izumi, Kenji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5497674
    Abstract: A base end portion of a lower arm is mounted on a revolutionarily drivable revolution portion at a specific offset from the revolutionary axis thereof, and an upper arm is mounted in the lower arm, with the lower and upper arms being rotationally drivable within a plane parallel to the revolutionary axis. In a motor casing, three motors for driving three dimensional motions of a wrist are disposed in a vertical direction with their axes being in parallel. Since the upper arm is offset from the revolutionary axis, both right-handed operation and left-handed operation can be easily selected, and the work range of this robot can be increased while its installation space can be reduced. The lower arm has a motor for driving the upper arm at the lower part thereof apart from a gearbox for the upper arm. Power of the motor for driving the upper arm is transmitted to the gearbox through a power transmission member. Such structure enables to reduce thickness of the lower arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Inada
  • Patent number: 5279177
    Abstract: A wrist mechanism mounted on an arm of a robot has a wrist flange to which a spray gun is mounted. Coaxially with the arm are provided concentric and relatively rotatable cylinders. From the outermost cylinder extends forward a housing in which gears and shafts are enclosed and operate as follows. Rotations of second and third inner cylinders are transmitted via spur gear trains to respective power transmission shafts extending in parallel to the axis of the cylinders. Bevel gears fixed to respective far ends of the transmission shafts mesh with other bevel gears which have a second axis transverse to the axis of the cylinders. A cylindrical member fixed to one of the other bevel gears is therefore swingable about the second axis. Rotation of the other bevel gear is transmitted to a further gear to rotate the spray gun. A cover besides the housing has an opening through which a flexible paint-supply hose is led into the mechanism to be connected to the spray gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Inada