Patents by Inventor Takahiro Nakayama

Takahiro Nakayama 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: 20230023560
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a vehicle configured to be movable along a predetermined route, the vehicle including at least an image capturing apparatus; a display apparatus configured to display a video image captured by the image capturing apparatus, the display apparatus being installed in a remote place that is remote from the vehicle; a first operation terminal installed in the remote place; a control apparatus configured to control movement of the vehicle based on first operation information input through the first operation terminal; and a second operation terminal installed in a place that is closer to the vehicle than to the remote place, in which the control apparatus is configured to assist, based on second operation information input through the second operation terminal, the control of the movement of the vehicle that is based on the first operation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kida, Takahiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11524414
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes at least three kinesthetic-sense sensors arranged along a plane, each including a first force-receiving part configured to receive an external force. The sensor unit includes a connecting member including a second force-receiving part configured to receive an external force, configured to transfer the external force received by the second force-receiving part to each first force-receiving part and connecting the first force-receiving parts with each other. The sensor unit includes an output unit configured to output signals corresponding to a pressing force in an orthogonal-axis direction orthogonal to the plane and pressing forces in two axial directions parallel to the plane, respectively, the pressing forces being components of divided forces of the external force received by the second force-receiving part, received by the respective first force-receiving parts through the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Hata, Motohiro Fujiyoshi, Yoshiteru Omura
  • Publication number: 20220379570
    Abstract: A tube body production method includes: a disposing step of disposing carbon fibers with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a mandrel so that the carbon fibers extend in the axial direction of the mandrel; and a molding step of impregnating the fiber body with a resin on the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel and then heating the resin to mold the resin, wherein the disposing step and the molding step are performed in a state where the axial direction of the mandrel coincides with an up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Kenichi MORI, Kazuki OHTA
  • Publication number: 20220381372
    Abstract: Provided is a tube body intermediate including: a carbon fiber disposed with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a mandrel so as to extend in an axial direction of the mandrel; and a fixing member having a tubular shape and disposed with respect to the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel so as to cover the carbon fiber. Also provided is a tube body production method including: disposing a fiber body with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a mandrel so that the fiber body extends in an axial direction of the mandrel; disposing a fixing member with a tubular shape with respect to the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel so that the fixing member covers the fiber body; and impregnating the fiber body with a resin on the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel and then heating the resin to mold the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Kenichi MORI, Kazuki OHTA
  • Publication number: 20220381373
    Abstract: The tube body intermediate includes: a carbon fiber disposed with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a mandrel such that the carbon fiber extends in an axial direction of the mandrel in a manner of being wound by less than one turn; and a first fixing member wound with respect to an outer circumferential surface of the mandrel such that the first fixing member extends in the axial direction of the mandrel in a manner of being wound over the carbon fiber by one or more turns in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Kenichi MORI, Kazuki OHTA, Motohiro TANIGAWA, Tadashi UOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220301130
    Abstract: An image processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is an image processing device that processes an image to be displayed on a display unit of a telepresence robot disposed at a first base. The image processing device includes a background image acquisition unit that acquires, in real time, image information obtained by capturing an image in a rear direction of the display unit, a person image acquisition unit that acquires, in real time, image information including a person at a second base that is a remote area from the first base, an extraction unit that extracts an area in which the person is displayed from the image information including the person, and a composition unit that combines the extracted image information on the person and the image information in the rear direction of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke KIDA, Takahiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220146784
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes: a variable-power optical system including a focus lens group; a focus actuator configured to move the focus lens group supported by a support forward or backward in a direction of the optical axis to change a shooting distance; and a moving unit configured to, in response to receiving a driving force for changing a zoom magnification, move a position of the focus lens group in the direction of the optical axis to a position corresponding to the changed zoom magnification. The moving unit is configured to move the focus lens group in the direction of the optical axis by the driving force such that a change in a shooting distance due to a change in the zoom magnification is within a predetermined tolerance when the focus lens group is at a position corresponding to the minimum shooting distance, at every zoom magnification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro KOBAYASHI, Tomoaki KOBAYASHI, Takahiro NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11318617
    Abstract: Provided is a manipulator including: a link; a joint unit configured to rotate the link; and a distance sensor configured to detect an obstacle entering in a monitoring space that is determined so as to include at least a rotating direction side of the link, the distance sensor being installed so that a sensing direction faces a direction parallel to a surface of the link. Further, provided is a moving robot including the aforementioned manipulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Kazuhiro Mima
  • Patent number: 11307393
    Abstract: A zoom lens satisfies Conditional Expression (1) as follows: ?20<Twt/Twm<1,??(1) Twt is a moving amount of the second lens group during zooming from the short focal-length end to the long focal-length end, a moving amount to the object side being indicated by a positive sign, a moving amount to an image side being indicated by a negative sign, and Twm is a moving amount of the second lens group during zooming from the short focal-length end to an intermediate focal length, a moving amount to the image side being indicated by a negative sign, the intermediate focal length being expressed by fm=(fw·ft)1/2, where fw is a focal length of a whole system at the short focal-length end, and ft is a focal length of the whole system at the long focal-length end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Tomoya Koga
  • Patent number: 11306786
    Abstract: A cross joint comprises a flange yoke and a stab yoke, each comprising a based end portion and a pair of arm portions having a shaft hole and extending from both sides of the base end portion, and a spider having a first shaft fitted into the shaft hole of the flange yoke and a second shaft fitted into the shaft hole of the stab yoke, wherein the cross joint further comprises a flexing limiting portion, which limits a flexing angle of the cross joint due to mutual contact of a protruding portion of the base end portion and a flange portion of the spider when the flange yoke is flexed to a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Saito, Takahiro Nakayama, Sato Kuraishi
  • Patent number: 11243693
    Abstract: A program writing method in which a program is written into a flash ROM that a microcomputer includes therein includes: a generating step for generating a version representative value indicating a version of a source directory from predetermined types of files included in the source directory; an additionally writing step for additionally writing the version representative value into a source file included in the source directory; and a program writing step for writing a program corresponding to the source directory generated by compiling the source file into which the version representative value has been additionally written into the flash ROM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mima, Koji Terada, Takahiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220036540
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising: an obtainer configured to, in a process of supplying a curable composition onto a substrate or a mold and forming a film of the curable composition in a space between the substrate and the mold, obtain the captured image of the curable composition; a generator configured to generate a predicted image representing a prediction result of a behavior of the curable composition on the substrate in the process; and a display controller configured to display, on a display unit, the captured image and the predicted image to be comparable to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Yuichiro Oguchi
  • Patent number: 11230019
    Abstract: A posture angle calculation apparatus 170 includes an acquisition unit 171 configured to acquire an output of an acceleration sensor 151 installed to output acceleration of a moving apparatus that moves along a moving surface in a vertical axis direction with respect to the moving surface and to acquire an output of a gyro sensor 152 installed to output an angular velocity about the vertical axis. The posture angle calculation apparatus 170 further includes a calculation unit 172 configured to assume, when the acceleration is larger than reference acceleration Rg, and the angular velocity is smaller than a preset reference angular velocity Rw, the angular velocity ?z is zero and calculate a posture angle of the moving apparatus about the vertical axis. The posture angle calculation apparatus 170 further includes an output unit 173 configured to output data of the calculated posture angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Kazuhiro Mima, Hiroshi Bito
  • Patent number: 11227357
    Abstract: A master node acquires a point group, each point of which belongs to any one of a plurality of blocks into which a space has been divided, the point group representing an appearance of the space by a collection of a plurality of points. The master node determines a priority of each of the plurality of blocks on the basis of the number of points belonging to each of the plurality of blocks. The master node preferentially performs processing of higher priority blocks among the plurality of blocks than processing of lower priority blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakata, Takahiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20210190133
    Abstract: A tube is used in fiber-reinforced plastic power transmission shaft. The tube comprises: a cylindrical body section; a second connection section that has a smaller diameter than the body section and is connected to a stub shaft; and an inclined section that has an outer diameter that decreases toward the second connection section from the main body part. The inclined section has formed thereon, a weak section that is damaged when a load input in the axial direction exceeds a prescribed value. With this configuration, the cost of the tube can be reduced, and when a prescribed load is input to the tube in the axial direction, the tube is reliably damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi MORI, Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Kazuki OHTA
  • Publication number: 20210190132
    Abstract: Provided is a tubular body used for a power transmission shaft made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The tubular body is provided with a cylindrical main body portion, and a second connection portion continuous with an end portion of the main body portion and to which a stab shaft is joined. The main body portion is formed with a weak portion which fails when a load input in the direction of an axial line exceeds a predetermined value. A linear rupture portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the weak portion. In the present configuration, cost reduction and weight reduction of the tubular body are made possible, and the tubular body fails infallibly when a predetermined load is input to the tubular body in the direction of the axial line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Kazuki OHTA, Kenichi MORI
  • Publication number: 20210180644
    Abstract: A tube for a power transmission shaft is made of fiber-reinforced plastic, rotated to transmit power, and includes a main body in a shape of cylinder about an axis, wherein the main body has an outer diameter thereof gradually decreasing from a central portion thereof toward both ends thereof, and has a thickness thereof gradually decreasing from said both ends toward the central portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi Mori, Takahiro Nakayama, Kazuki Ohta
  • Publication number: 20210180645
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a tube body made of fiber-reinforced plastic and used in a power transmission shaft is provided and the method includes: a generating step of disposing an uncured fiber-reinforced resin on a cavity surface of a mold and generating a resin body in a cylindrical shape; and a curing step of supplying a fluid inside the resin body and curing the resin of the resin body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki Ohta, Kenichi Mori, Takahiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11020855
    Abstract: Provided is a storage device including: a first storage region comprising a plurality of sensor regions for the plurality of the sensors; a second storage region into which a data set is written, the data set being generated by reading, from the respective plurality of sensor regions, sampling data of a sensor having a longest sampling period among the plurality of sensors for one period and sampling data of other sensors for a period corresponding to the period in which the sampling data of the sensor for the one period is generated and integrating the sampling data; and a control unit configured to write the sampling data of the plurality of sensors into the plurality of sensor regions, respectively, in a ring buffer format and generate the data set at a predetermined timing and write the data set into the second storage region in the ring buffer format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Kazuhiro Mima, Hiroshi Bito
  • Patent number: D979625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Yusuke Kida