Patents by Inventor Takashi Sonoda

Takashi Sonoda 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: 20240151001
    Abstract: A steering mechanism is used to navigate the direction of travel of a motor grader. A directional correction input device is manipulatable by an operator. A controller, during automatic control of the steering operation by the steering mechanism, controls the steering mechanism in a manner that the direction of travel is adjustable leftward or rightward through a certain angle based on an operation command inputted through the directional correction input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya SONODA, Takashi MAEDA, Yoshihide NAKAE, Youichirou KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11963384
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, in a non-display region inside a display region, an oxide semiconductor layer is provided in an island shape, a first opening is provided in a first inorganic insulating film so as to expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the non-display region, a common functional layer is provided so as to extend from the display region to the non-display region, and a second opening is provided so as to expose the oxide semiconductor layer in the common functional layer, a peripheral end of the second opening being surrounded by a peripheral end of the first opening in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Sonoda, Takashi Ochi, Jumpei Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230288482
    Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus for a rotary machine includes: a feature acquisition part configured to acquire, from a current waveform of a current measured during rotation of a rotary machine including a motor or a generator, a plurality of features each representing a characteristic of the current; and an abnormality determination part configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in the rotary machine on the basis of a divergence between a distribution of each of the plurality of features or a multi-dimensional distribution of the plurality of features and a reference distribution of each of the plurality of features or a reference multi-dimensional distribution during normal operation of the rotary machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei CHISHIKI, Koki TATEISHI, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20230266391
    Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus for a rotary machine includes: an effective value acquisition part configured to acquire, from a current waveform of a current measured during rotation of a rotary machine including a motor or a generator, an effective value of the current; a first index acquisition part configured to acquire a first index indicating a dispersion of a distribution of the effective value; and an abnormality determination part configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in the rotary machine on the basis of comparison of an abnormality index including the first index with a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koki TATEISHI, Yohei CHISHIKI, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20230259116
    Abstract: A cause estimation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a measurement value of a target apparatus; a likelihood calculation unit that calculates, in a case where it is assumed that events occur due to a common cause, a likelihood of an occurrence of each of the events based on the measurement value; a table storage unit that stores a cause table in which a cause of occurrence of the event and a frequency of the cause of occurrence are associated with each other for each of the plurality of events; and an estimation unit that rewrites the frequency registered in the cause table into a frequency in the case where it is assumed that the plurality of events occur due to the common cause, and estimates the cause of occurrence based on the rewritten cause table and the likelihood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsaku Matsumoto, Kuniaki Aoyama, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Takashi Sonoda, Daisuke Kudo
  • Publication number: 20230258124
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant provided with a gas turbine; a waste heat recovery boiler which generates steam by exchanging heat between exhaust gas from the gas turbine and water; an absorption tower which recovers carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust gas; an EGR line which bleeds a portion of the exhaust gas and guides the same to the intake side of the gas turbine; an exhaust gas heater which uses steam extracted from the waste heat recovery boiler as a heat medium to heat the exhaust gas that has passed through the absorption tower, by exchanging heat between the heat medium and the exhaust gas; and an EGR heater which is provided on the EGR line, and which heats the exhaust gas passing through the EGR line by exchanging heat between the exhaust gas passing through the EGR line and the heat medium discharged from the exhaust gas heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Takashi SONODA, Kazunori TSUJII, Naoyuki NAGAFUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230022473
    Abstract: A fuel control device includes a combustion temperature estimation value calculation unit that calculates a temperature estimation value when a mixture of fuel and inflow air is burned using an atmospheric condition, an opening degree command value of a valve that controls the amount of air that is mixed with the fuel and burned, and an output prediction value calculated on the basis of a fuel control signal command value used for calculation of a total fuel flow rate flowing through a plurality of fuel supply systems, a fuel distribution command value calculation unit that calculates a fuel distribution command value indicating a distribution of fuel output from the fuel supply systems based on the temperature estimation value, and outputs the fuel distribution command value, and a valve opening degree calculation unit that calculates each valve opening degree of a fuel flow rate control valve of the fuel supply systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Takashi SONODA, Akihiko SAITO, Fuminori FUJII, Hisashi NAKAHARA, Ryoichi HAGA, Ryuji TAKENAKA, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Wataru AKIZUKI, Isamu MATSUMI, Naohiro SUMIMURA, Shinichi YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11492981
    Abstract: A fuel control device includes a combustion temperature estimation value calculation unit that calculates a temperature estimation value when a mixture of fuel and inflow air is burned using an atmospheric condition, an opening degree command value of a valve that controls the amount of air that is mixed with the fuel and burned, and an output prediction value calculated on the basis of a fuel control signal command value used for calculation of a total fuel flow rate flowing through a plurality of fuel supply systems, a fuel distribution command value calculation unit that calculates a fuel distribution command value indicating a distribution of fuel output from the fuel supply systems based on the temperature estimation value, and outputs the fuel distribution command value, and a valve opening degree calculation unit that calculates each valve opening degree of a fuel flow rate control valve of the fuel supply systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamamoto, Takashi Sonoda, Akihiko Saito, Fuminori Fujii, Hisashi Nakahara, Ryoichi Haga, Ryuji Takenaka, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Wataru Akizuki, Isamu Matsumi, Naohiro Sumimura, Shinichi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11488034
    Abstract: A state quantity-acquiring unit acquires values of a plurality of state quantities at a certain timing associated with an object device. A state quantity-predicting unit predicts allowable ranges of the values of the plurality of state quantities after a predetermined time has elapsed on the basis of the acquired values of the plurality of state quantities. A display information-generating unit generates display information in which a predicted-value figure which is a figure with a shape corresponding to the allowable ranges of the values of the plurality of state quantities is disposed in a coordinate space with the plurality of state quantities as axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kumano, Yasushi Morishita, Takashi Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20220341972
    Abstract: A diagnosis device for diagnosing a diagnosis target machine having a rotary machine on the basis of a measured current during rotation of the rotary machine is provided with: an effective value acquisition unit configured to acquire an effective value of the measured current for each specified number of cycles in a target current waveform which is time transition of the measured current in a first predetermined period; a distribution information calculation unit configured to calculate a target distribution information which represents a distribution state of a plurality of the effective values acquired; and a detection unit configured to perform abnormality detection of the diagnosis target machine on the basis of the calculated target distribution information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei CHISHIKI, Koki TATEISHI, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20220108192
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: search first action histories for second action histories similar to a specific action history of a second user to whom a recommendation is to be provided, in which each first action history represents objects which a first user corresponding to the first action history took a specific action for and each of which a degree of preference of the corresponding first user is given, and the specific action history represents objects which the second user took the specific action for; select an object to be recommended to the second user based on the degrees of preference for the respective objects which are given to the respective second action histories; and present the selected object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Masahiro SATO, Takashi SONODA, Tomoko OHKUMA
  • Patent number: 11269220
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polarized light irradiation device capable of setting an alignment azimuth angle ? of liquid crystal molecules to be a desired angle even when the incident angle of polarized light on a substrate is not 0° in irradiation of a photo alignment film with polarized light, and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device by using the polarized light irradiation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiji Fujiwara, Takashi Sonoda, Nobufumi Tomimaru, Hitoshi Watanabe, Shinichi Terashita, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Publication number: 20220027436
    Abstract: An anomaly factor estimation method includes the steps of: calculating, based on a factor table indicating an occurrence frequency of each of factors for each of events, a prior probability that is a probability for each factor to occur; calculating a posterior probability that is a probability for a certain event to be caused by a certain factor; and multiplying the posterior probability by a weighting coefficient relating to a signal-to-noise ratio gain value of a sensor measurement value, and calculating an index indicating an occurrence probability for each combination of the factors and the events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Masato SHIDA, Takashi SONODA, Shintaro KUMANO
  • Patent number: 11227148
    Abstract: A person watching a video shares the realism of the spot. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquirer, an object information collector, a status recognizer, and a display unit. The video acquirer acquires a video from an image capturer that captures a predetermined area. The object information collector collects object information of an object included in the captured video. The status recognizer recognizes a status of the object based on the video and the object information of the object. The display unit displays the recognized status to be identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Sonoda
  • Patent number: 11210724
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a degree of user's repeated use of items available in a service used by the user from a use history of the service; and a notification unit that notifies the user about an item in descending order of a degree of matching with the user among the items available in the service by using the degree of matching of each of the items with the user that is obtained from features of the user indicative of item use tendency in the service reflecting the degree of user's repeated use acquired by the acquisition unit and features of the each of the items indicative of characteristics of the each of the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Koki Nagatani, Masahiro Sato, Takashi Sonoda, Tomoko Okuma
  • Publication number: 20210310409
    Abstract: A state determining device determines a state of a gas turbine connected to an electric generator. The gas turbine includes a compressor that compresses intake air into compression air, a fuel supply device that supplies fuel, a combustor that mixes the compression air supplied from the compressor and the fuel supplied from the fuel supply device and combusts a resultant mixture to generate combustion gas, and a turbine that is rotated with the generated combustion gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi SONODA, Ryuji TAKENAKA, Sosuke NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210068765
    Abstract: A state estimation apparatus includes a processor configured to estimate, from first test information obtained as a result of a first test conducted on a test target, second test information indicating a result of a second test, whether to conduct the second test being determined on a basis of a result indicated by the first test information, and estimate a state of the test target from the estimated second test information and the first test information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Janmajay SINGH, Masahiro SATO, Takashi SONODA
  • Publication number: 20210065276
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores, for each object judged by a user whether to select the object, a selection history indicating whether the user has selected the object and a recommendation history indicating whether the object has been recommended to the user. The processor reads information from the memory. The processor is configured to conduct machine learning for estimating an effect of recommending each object from the selection history and the recommendation history, and to output, based on a result of the machine learning, information concerning an object that is predicted to be more likely to be selected by the user as a result of being recommended so as to satisfy a predetermined possibility level or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Janmajay SINGH, Sho TAKEMORI, Takashi SONODA, Qian ZHANG, Tomoko OHKUMA
  • Patent number: 10884269
    Abstract: A photo-alignment treatment device for a liquid crystal display panel substrate includes at least one light irradiation mechanism including a light source, a polarizer, and a rotation adjustment mechanism and configured to irradiate a liquid crystal display panel substrate with light emitted from the light source through the polarizer. The device also includes a stage configured to support the liquid crystal display panel substrate thereon. The photo-alignment treatment device is configured to irradiate the liquid crystal display panel substrate with light while moving the liquid crystal display panel substrate or while moving the light source with respect to the liquid crystal display panel substrate. A light irradiation direction with respect to the liquid crystal display panel substrate is parallel to a moving direction of the liquid crystal display panel substrate or a moving direction of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiji Fujiwara, Takashi Sonoda, Nobufumi Tomimaru, Hitoshi Watanabe, Yuhichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10775779
    Abstract: An operation information analyzer includes: an information collection unit 11 configured to collect event information on events that have occurred during operation of an apparatus 20 including a plurality of devices 21; an information analysis unit 12 configured to organize the collected event information to generate and store index values used to evaluate operation conditions of the apparatus 20; and an information presentation unit 13 configured to present the index values stored in the information analysis unit 12 to a user. The information analysis unit 12 generates the index values for each period sectioned based on a change in an operation state of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Aota, Junya Iwasaki, Pradeepa Wevita, Takashi Sonoda