Patents by Inventor Takashi Matsumoto
Takashi Matsumoto 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: 11975778Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of accepting a request for retrieving a target vehicle body unit that is laid at a specific place, selecting a chassis unit for retrieval from among chassis units in the state separated from any vehicle body unit, the chassis unit for retrieval being a chassis unit to be used to retrieve the target vehicle body unit, and sending a retrieval command to the chassis unit for retrieval, the retrieval command being a command to retrieve the target vehicle body unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, Yasushi Fujiwara, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama
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Publication number: 20240142319Abstract: A load sensor includes: an electrically-conductive elastic body; an electrically-conductive member having a linear shape and disposed so as to cross the electrically-conductive elastic body; and a dielectric body disposed between the electrically-conductive elastic body and the electrically-conductive member. A width of the electrically-conductive elastic body in a longitudinal direction of the electrically-conductive member is changed such that a relationship between a load and a contact area between the electrically-conductive elastic body and the electrically-conductive member via the dielectric body becomes close to a linear relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Yodai MATSUMURA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Susumu URAGAMI, Yuta MORIURA, Takafumi HAMANO, Hiroyuki FURUYA
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Publication number: 20240146140Abstract: In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating portion such that the lead wire extended portions are separated from the power wire extended portion by distances that are greater than a maximum value of the width of clearance between an end-side portion of the lead wire extended portion and a facing portion located next to the end-side portion, the resin portion being provided so as to cover lead wire portions and a power wire portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Munehiro TAKAHASHI, Keisuke KIMURA, Ken TAKEDA, Takahito NOZAWA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Yoshitada YAMAGISHI, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Hajime KATO
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Publication number: 20240142320Abstract: A load detection system includes: a first load sensor including a first element part in which capacitance changes in accordance with a load; a first detection circuit configured to perform charging and discharging of the first element part and acquire a voltage according to the capacitance at a detection timing in a charge period; a second load sensor including a second element part in which capacitance changes in accordance with a load; a second detection circuit configured to perform charging and discharging of the second element part and acquire a voltage according to the capacitance at a detection timing in a charge period; and a synchronization generation part configured to synchronize the charging of the first element part and the charging of the second element part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hironobu UKITSU, Yuta MORIURA, Susumu URAGAMI, Takashi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 11972929Abstract: There is provided a processing apparatus for forming a film with a plasma. The processing apparatus comprises: a processing container, having a ceramic sprayed coating on an inner wall on which an antenna that radiates microwaves is arranged, configured to accommodate a substrate; a mounting table configured to mount the substrate in the processing container; and a controller configured to perform a precoating process of coating a surface of the ceramic sprayed coating with a first carbon film with a plasma of a first carbon-containing gas at a first pressure and a film forming process of forming a second carbon film on the substrate with a plasma of a second carbon-containing gas at a second pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Makoto Wada, Takashi Matsumoto, Masahito Sugiura, Ryota Ifuku, Hirokazu Ueda
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Publication number: 20240136640Abstract: A capacitor 1 which is provided so as to be installable in a first loading part C of a first electrical power device and a second loading part S103 of a second electrical power device S is configured to have an external shape such that a first abutment part which, upon loading of the capacitor into the first loading part, comes into abutment with the first loading part C differs from a second abutment part 26 which, upon loading of the capacitor into the second loading part S103, comes into abutment with the second loading part S103.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MISU, Keiichi ITO, Yuya TABUCHI, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Kosuke YONETA
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Patent number: 11965785Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive element having more sufficient expandability, a relatively wide measurement range of pressure force, and a relatively simple structure, and an electronic device using the pressure-sensitive element. The pressure-sensitive element includes a plurality of first electrodes being elongated in first direction, arranged in a first plane, and including a conductive elastic body, a plurality of second electrodes being elongated in second direction intersecting the first direction, arranged in a second plane facing the first plane, and including a conductor wire, and a plurality of dielectrics covering a surface of the plurality of second electrodes. The plurality of second electrodes have bent parts K arranged periodically, and capacitance at intersections of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes changes in accordance with pressure force applied between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuta Moriura, Yui Sawada, Shinobu Masuda, Hironobu Ukitsu, Takashi Matsumoto, Mitsutaka Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20240124047Abstract: A steering control device configured to control a steering device, the steering device including a steering shaft to which a handle is detachably coupled and a motor configured to generate torque that is given to the steering shaft. The steering control device includes a processing circuit configured to execute a process for controlling driving of the motor. The process for controlling the driving of the motor includes a lock process of driving the motor such that a rotation position of the steering shaft is fixed at a specific position, in a state where the handle has been detached from the steering shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiki MATSUMOTO, Kenichi ABE, Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki KATAYAMA, Masaharu YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20240122513Abstract: An awakening effort motion estimation device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging an occupant's face in a vehicle; detect, on a basis of the captured image having been acquired, two reference points for estimating a motion of the occupant's mouth, the two reference points including one point on a mask worn by the occupant, and the other point being a point based on a feature point of the occupant's face or a point different from the one point on the mask in the captured image; calculate a reference point distance between the detected two reference points; and estimate whether or not the occupant is performing an awakening effort motion by moving his or her mouth depending on whether or not the calculated reference point distance satisfies an awakening effort estimating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Natsuki TAHARA, Takashi HIRANO, Shintaro WATANABE, Atsushi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20240128808Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is formed of a band-shaped steel sheet that is helically bent and laminated. The stator core has slots each opening at an inner periphery of the stator core and spaced from one another in a circumferential direction. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor segments that are inserted in the slots of the stator core and connected with one another. The band-shaped steel sheet has slits each of which is formed, at a position corresponding to one of the slots, to be open to the corresponding slot. Each of the electrical conductor segments is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of leg portions respectively inserted in corresponding two of the slots of the stator core; the corresponding two slots are circumferentially apart from each other by two or more slot-pitches.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO PRESSTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji KONDO, Yuichi KUDOSE, Hirotaka KUROZAKI, Masaki OHIRA, Ryosuke MATSUMOTO, Shinji TAKESHITA, Takashi KURAMITSU, Tomohiro HASHIMOTO, Koji YOSHIDA, Katsuhiko GOTO
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Publication number: 20240120482Abstract: A negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes graphite particles satisfying the following Formula (1): [Springback rateĆ7.6]+[Compressive load (kN/cm2)]?4.2??(1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Takashi KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki MATSUMOTO, Takehiro SHIMOYAMA, Yoshinori UCHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240120183Abstract: A substrate processing method of processing a substrate includes: a carry-in process of carrying the substrate into a processing container; a first process of forming a first carbon film on the substrate with plasma of a first mixture gas containing a carbon-containing gas in a state in which interior of the processing container is maintained at a first pressure; and a second process of changing a pressure in the processing container to a second pressure higher than the first pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Makoto WADA, Ryota IFUKU, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Hiroki YAMADA
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Patent number: 11954241Abstract: A position of a user is recognized. A display unit (102) displays a content-display-frame (112). A determination unit (103) determines whether the position of the user is within a predetermined range from a wall surface (12) or not. The display control unit (104) configured to display a content-display-frame on a floor surface (11) when the position of the user is farther than the predetermined range from the wall surface, and configured to display an operation input area (113) that receives an operation input from the user on the wall surface while displaying a content-display-frame to span from the floor surface to the wall surface when the position of the user is within the predetermined range from the wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHIMIZU CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yuya Igarashi, Motoaki Yamazaki, Michihito Shiraishi
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Patent number: 11951427Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a hollow cylindrical filter for removing efficiently foreign substances from fluids. This is performed by forming complicated passages including an axial direction and a radial direction in the filter. The hollow cylindrical filter is formed by winding a metal wire rod in a spiral and multilayered manner. The metal wire rod includes a recess formed throughout the entire length in a longitudinal direction, or recesses repeated along said longitudinal direction. Some wire rod layers extend in an axial direction of the hollow cylindrical filter while the adjacent wire rod layers extend in an intersecting direction, thereby forming a plurality of communication paths for communicating between the overlapping wire rod layers. Additionally, a space is formed between the recess of one wire rod layer and another adjacent wire rod layer, allowing the plurality of communication paths to communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yutaka Yoshida, Kiyohisa Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11956833Abstract: A communication apparatus in the present disclosure comprises an AID generator, a Trigger frame generator, and a wireless transmitter/receiver. When a Trigger Type in a trigger frame is an RA trigger, the AID generator (103) generates, as information for an AID12 subfield, information that is different from an AID. The Trigger frame generator (104) generates a RA variant Trigger frame when the Trigger Type in the trigger frame is an RA trigger, and sets, in the AID12 subfield included in the RA variant Trigger frame, the information output from the AID generator (103). The wireless transmitter/receiver (106) transmits the Trigger frame, generated by the Trigger frame generator (104), to a terminal (200).Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20240109459Abstract: A seat cushion is formed integrally by a body pad portion, an outer peripheral edge portion, and a connection portion. The outer peripheral edge portion protrudes toward a floor panel from the outer peripheral edge portion in a plan view and contacts a floor panel at its lower face. The connection portion is provided to protrude toward the floor panel at a portion which is separated from a front-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion and a rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion, respectively. The connection portion connects the floor panel and the body pad portion. A portion between the front-side part and the rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion in a vehicle longitudinal direction is a separation portion where a lower face of the seat cushion faces an upper face of the floor panel with a gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji MATSUMOTO, Miho KURATA, Sakayu TERADA, Daisuke YAMADA, Yuki HANAZAWA, Naoko MOTOYOSHI, Aoi FUJIMOTO, Junsuke INOUE, Takashi SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11945229Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid, and a liquid container configured to contain the liquid to be supplied to the head. The liquid container includes an inlet from which the liquid is supplied to the liquid container, a first lid configured to cover and openably close the inlet, the first lid having a first fitting part fittable to a first key detachably attached to a refill bottle containing the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kenta Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe, Takeyuki Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11940632Abstract: A virtual image display device is provided. Included in the virtual image display device are: an image light generating device; a projection optical system configured to project image light emitted from the image light generating device; a folding mirror configured to reflect, in an intersecting direction, the image light from the projection optical system; a semi-transmissive mirror configured to reflect a portion of the image light from the folding mirror; a concave surface mirror configured to reflect, toward the semi-transmissive mirror, the image light reflected at the semi-transmissive mirror to form an exit pupil, in which an entrance pupil is formed between the projection optical system and the semi-transmissive mirror.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Matsumoto, Masatoshi Yonekubo, Takashi Takeda
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Publication number: 20240085256Abstract: A load sensor is configured to detect, as change in capacitance, change, in a contact area between an electrically-conductive elastic body and a dielectric body, that occurs due to a load applied to an upper face of the load sensor. In the load sensor, a plurality of sensor parts each configured to detect the load are disposed so as to be arranged in a plane direction, and a buffer part configured to suppress displacement of the upper face due to the load applied to a first sensor part from being propagated to a second sensor part adjacent to the first sensor part is disposed between the first sensor part and the second sensor part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Yodai MATSUMURA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Susumu URAGAMI, Yuta MORIURA, Takafumi HAMANO, Hiroyuki FURUYA
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Publication number: 20240085122Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: flat heat exchange tubes each having an elongated cross section and planar outer surfaces that face each other, and each including a fluid flow passage; and corrugated fins each formed in the shape of waves and provided between associated adjacent ones of the heat exchange tubes. The corrugated fins each having ridge portions that correspond to ridges of the waves and that are joined to the associated heat exchange tubes, the corrugated fin having fins that are located between the ridge portions and are arranged in a height direction. The fins include drain slits each of which allows drainage of water on an associated one of the fins, and end portions of the drain slits of adjacent ones of the fins in a horizontal direction are located at different positions in the drain slits, the adjacent fins being adjacent to each other in the height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoji ONAKA, Takashi MATSUMOTO