Patents by Inventor Takashi Goto
Takashi Goto 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).
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Patent number: 11511371Abstract: In a laser welding method, generation of relatively large blow holes in a welding part is prevented while decrease in productivity is reduced. The laser welding method for lap welding, using a laser beam LB, of a plurality of metal plates and including an aluminum alloy cast plate includes: a melting path of scanning and irradiating circularly a superimposed part of the aluminum alloy plate and the aluminum alloy cast plate with a first laser beam LB1 to form a molten pool of the molten aluminum alloy plate and the molten aluminum alloy cast plate; and a stirring path of scanning and irradiating circularly the molten pool with a second laser beam LB2 having a scanning speed V2 faster than a scanning speed V1 of the first laser beam LB1 to stir the molten pool.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JTDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Hioki, Shuhei Ogura, Atsushi Kawakita, Koki Nakada, Takashi Goto, Ryosuke Kawai
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Patent number: 11511368Abstract: An electrically conductive tip member includes: an inner periphery portion including a Cu matrix phase and a second phase that is dispersed in the Cu matrix phase and contains a Cu—Zr-based compound, the inner periphery portion having an alloy composition of Cu-xZr (where x is the atomic percentage of Zr and satisfies 0.5?x?16.7); and an outer periphery portion that is present on an outer circumferential side of the inner periphery portion, made of a metal containing Cu, and has higher electrical conductivity than the inner periphery portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Naokuni Muramatsu, Takanari Nakajima, Takashi Goto
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Patent number: 11505028Abstract: Provided is a vehicular holding device that, in an ON state, holds a vehicle component in a state where displacement of the vehicle component in an axial direction is restrained, and that, in an OFF state, holds the vehicle component in a state where displacement of the vehicle component in the axial direction is possible. The vehicular holding device includes at least one engagement part, a cam mechanism, and an axial direction restraining part. The at least one engagement part is at a position where the engagement part engages with an engaged part in the ON state, and is at a position where the engagement part is separated from the engaged part in the OFF state. The cam mechanism displaces the at least one engagement part from the OFF-state position to the ON-state position. The axial direction restraining part receives axial-direction force acting on the at least one engagement part.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: CHUO HATSUJO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Goto, Hideki Toya, Toshio Kuwayama, Shinsuke Okura
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Publication number: 20220308079Abstract: An automatic analyzing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a reagent cartridge and processing circuitry. The reagent cartridge includes a storing unit storing therein a reagent, a flow path for dispensing the reagent from the storing unit, and a dispensing mechanism configured to dispense the reagent into a reaction cuvette through the flow path. The processing circuitry is configured to control the dispensing mechanism so as to dispose of the reagent in the flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shozo HASHIMOTO, Tomohiro SUGIMURA, Masahiro MASUBUCHI, Takashi GOTO, Yasuo AKIZAWA
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Patent number: 11440129Abstract: An electrode tip portion is provided with a projection portion and a plurality of recess portions. The plurality of the recess portions are independent of one another, and are provided at the electrode tip portion in a dispersed manner. The projection portion is a region other than regions where the recess portions are provided, and is configured to be equipped with a continuous surface that continues in regions among the plurality of the recess portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Hioki, Manabu Ooga, Tomonori Yanagawa, Shun Kato, Takashi Goto, Hideaki Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20220283309Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a ground-based height measurement method, a ground-based height measurement device, and a program capable of measuring the lowest height of a cable above a ground even when three-dimensional point cloud data of the cable is insufficient. The ground-based height measurement method according to the present disclosure can acquire three-dimensional point cloud data that seems to be a cable by forming a measurement range of a predetermined size above a travel trajectory of MMS (at an arrangement height of the cable). Then, the number of three-dimensional point clouds included in the measurement range is counted and when the number is equal to or larger than a threshold value, the height is measured as a measurement object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro GOTO, Ryuji HONDA, Masaki WAKI, Takashi GOTO
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Patent number: 11390744Abstract: More specifically, provided are a polyarylene sulfide resin composition including 100 parts by mass of a polyarylene sulfide resin and 1 to 100 parts by mass of an inorganic filler surface-treated with a sizing agent, wherein the sizing agent is a sizing agent (?) containing at least a urethane-modified epoxy resin having an alkoxy polyoxyalkylene structure and a urethane resin having a sulfonate group, a sizing agent (?) containing a copolymer (?1) having a mass average molecular weight of 5000 to 150000, which is obtained by radical copolymerization of a polymerizable monomer mixture of at least a (meth)acrylic acid ester and maleic acid (anhydride), or a sizing agent (?) containing at least a polyether resin, a urethane resin, and a silane coupling agent, a molded article thereof, an inorganic filler used for the composition, and methods for producing them.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: DIC CorporationInventors: Keisuke Yamada, Hirokiyo Nakase, Takashi Goto, Masahiro Kajikawa
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Publication number: 20220203352Abstract: A reaction cuvette according to an embodiment is used for measurement performed by an automatic analyzing device, and is a reaction cuvette that houses a mixed liquid of a reagent and a sample to be measured. The reaction cuvette includes a cuvette main body and an aspiration port. The aspiration port is disposed on the cuvette main body, and allows a fluid to flow into an inner part of the cuvette main body from a bottom surface side of the cuvette main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shozo HASHIMOTO, Masahiro MASUBUCHI, Takashi GOTO, Tomohiro SUGIMURA, Yasuo AKIZAWA
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Publication number: 20220172114Abstract: A machine learning device, a deterioration estimation device, and a deterioration diagnostic apparatus capable of estimating a deterioration state of a non-inspected outside facility without dispatching a technician to the site are provided. A machine learning device 301 according to the present invention generates a learning model M1 by which a computer determines deterioration of an outside facility and includes an input unit 11 to which facility data D1 representing features and states of the outside facility and deterioration data D2 representing presence or absence of deterioration that has occurred in the outside facility are input, and an analysis unit 12 which generates the learning model M1 by performing supervised learning using the facility data of the outside facility in a deterioration state and the facility data of the outside facility that is not in a deterioration state as training data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi GOTO, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Yukihiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20220153260Abstract: A controller detects partitioning lines OL and BL of a road and a road edge E based on an image taken by a camera, generates a pair of left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR that extend from the side to the front of a vehicle along the partitioning lines OL and BL, controls the steering so the vehicle travels between the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR, moves the left virtual line ILL to a position in proximity to the road edge E and fixes the left virtual line ILL to this position, and then, moves the right virtual line ILR to a position separated from the left virtual line ILL by the width of the vehicle and fixes the right virtual line ILR to this position, and controls brakes to stop the vehicle after fixing the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Takashi HAMADA, Yuma NISHIJO, Kouichi KOJIMA, Yoshiyuki YAMASHITA, Yuta TSUJI, Hiroshi OHMURA, Takashi GOTO, Shoji HARADA, Kenta TADA, Kazuki SATO
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Publication number: 20220129222Abstract: A printer system includes a host computer and a printer connected via a communication line. The host computer includes a first communication interface connected to the printer, a first display, and a first control unit configured to perform a first monitoring operation to determine operation states of the host computer and the printer and a communication state of the communication line in association with a monitored time, and control the first display to display a result of the first monitoring operation. The printer includes a second communication interface connected to the host computer, a second display, and a second control unit configured to perform a second monitoring operation to determine operation states of the host computer and the printer and a communication state of the communication line in association with a monitored time, and control the second display to display a result of the second monitoring operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Takashi GOTO
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Patent number: 11315414Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: acquiring a degree of congestion of persons that are located in a predetermined range including a plurality of vehicles which is parked at predetermined positions and is able to travel autonomously; determining a positional relationship between the plurality of vehicles based on the degree of congestion; and transmitting a movement command to a first vehicle which is a vehicle which is requested to move out of the plurality of vehicles such that the determined positional relationship is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
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Patent number: 11269579Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring information indicating an environment surrounding a place where a plurality of movable objects is disposed, the plurality of movable objects including display units that display a picture to configure an external appearance; deciding a display content of the picture to be displayed by the display units included in the plurality of movable objects, depending on the information indicating the environment surrounding the place; and giving an instruction to cause the display units to display the picture having the decided display content, to the plurality of movable objects disposed at an area surrounding the place.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
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Patent number: 11255661Abstract: A columnar object state detection device according to an embodiment is a device for detecting a state of a columnar object including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire central axis data that is an array of coordinate values of center points of the columnar object in a horizontal direction at a plurality of predetermined heights of the columnar object; an approximation equation calculating unit configured to calculate a correction approximation equation for correcting the coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit through curve fitting for the array of coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit; and correction unit configured to correct the coordinate values of the acquired central axis data using the correction approximation equation calculated by the approximation equation calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Goto, Ryuji Honda, Yukihiro Goto, Yoshiyuki Kajihara
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Patent number: 11247292Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for resistance spot welding in which preliminary current application is executed and then main welding is executed in accordance with master patterns of various parameters obtained during the preliminary current application. The main welding is executed under welding conditions of the master patterns, and whether a welding abnormality has occurred and whether the welding abnormality is likely to occur are determined. When the welding abnormality is likely to occur, the welding conditions for the main welding are corrected so as to prevent the welding abnormality. When the welding abnormality is unlikely to occur, the welding conditions for the main welding are corrected so as to match the master patterns.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Nomura, Shuhei Ogura, Atsushi Kawakita, Naoya Kato, Toru Hioki, Kenji Fukushima, Shun Kato, Takashi Goto
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Publication number: 20220026452Abstract: An automatic analyzer disclosed herein includes a first calibration curve generator configured to generate a first calibration curve indicating a relationship between a concentration and an absorbance based on a result of an optical measurement of a reaction solution obtained by adding a reagent to a reference sample including a known concentration of an object to be detected; and a corrected calibration curve generator configured to generate, after the first calibration curve is generated, a corrected calibration curve based on a result of an optical measurement of a mixed reaction solution obtained by mixing the reagent and the reference sample or water, or an optical measurement of the reagent, and data relating to the first calibration curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shozo HASHIMOTO, Masahiro MASUBUCHI, Takashi GOTO, Tomohiro SUGIMURA, Yasuo AKIZAWA
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Patent number: 11229976Abstract: Partial welding of partially joining together two metal plates by melting at least one area inside a joining region of the metal plates is performed. After a lapse of a predetermined time from completion of the partial welding, main welding of joining together the metal plates by melting the joining region entirely is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Hioki, Atsushi Kawakita, Shuhei Ogura, Ryosuke Kawai, Takashi Goto, Kazuho Takishita
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Publication number: 20210374984Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ground boundary estimation method, a ground boundary estimation apparatus, and a program that can acquire the elevation of the ground boundary of the electrical pole quickly and accurately even when the base of the electrical pole is shielded by any shield at observation of the electrical pole. According to the ground boundary estimation method of the present invention, a difference in height between the columnar shape of a three-dimensional model of a columnar object such as an observed electrical pole and a standard shape of the columnar object at a position in which the three-dimensional model and the standard shape are equal to each other in the horizontal dimension is determined, and a penetration depth prescribed by the standard is subtracted from the difference in height, to find a height of a shielded portion of the ground boundary of the columnar object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi GOTO, Ryuji HONDA
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Publication number: 20210325197Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is configured to execute processing to calculate a correction travel route and a control target value on the basis of a target travel route under a specified constraint condition. The vehicle control apparatus calculates the correction travel route by using an evaluation function in a manner to minimize a difference of the correction travel route from the target travel route. The evaluation function is a sum that is acquired by weighting the evaluation value at each prediction point by weight coefficients. A time interval between each adjacent pair of the prediction points is set to be increased from a near side toward a far side from the vehicle. The weight coefficients are set such that weight at the prediction point on the far side from the vehicle is less than the weight at the prediction point on the near side of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hiroshi OHMURA, Takashi GOTO, Yasuhiro KAWAHARA, Ryusuke NOMIYAMA, Akihiro MOTODANI
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Patent number: 11135671Abstract: A resistance spot welding method includes sandwiching metal plates put on top of one another between a pair of electrodes and performing resistance spot welding sequentially on a plurality of welding points close to each other on the metal plates by performing a current application between the electrodes so as to join the metal plates to each other. A welding current value to form a welding nugget at a welding point to be subjected to the resistance spot welding second or later among the welding points is set to be higher than a first welding current value to form a first welding nugget at a first welding point to be subjected to the resistance spot welding first among the welding points.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Hioki, Shuhei Ogura, Atsushi Kawakita, Yoichi Tsutsumi, Takashi Goto