Patents by Inventor Takeshi Arai

Takeshi Arai 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).

  • Patent number: 11985424
    Abstract: A signal processing device according to the present technology includes a feature quantity extraction unit including a neural network and trained to extract a feature quantity for a specific event with respect to an input signal from a sensor, and a correction unit that performs correction of the input signal on the basis of the feature quantity extracted by the feature quantity extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arai, Yuriko Ohtsuka, Kenichiro Nishi, Takeshi Masuura, Norimitsu Okiyama, Yuji Matsui, Satoshi Takashima
  • Publication number: 20240151320
    Abstract: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi HOSOYA, Yusuke ARAI
  • Patent number: 11978357
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ulcer model used to practice a procedure including hemorrhage arrest, the ulcer model including a model main body which includes upper and lower surfaces facing each other and a tubular simulated blood vessel path provided between the upper surface and the lower surface and having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The upper surface includes a ring-shaped raised surface that rises in a thickness direction of the model main body and a simulated ulcer surface that is a recessed bottom surface surrounded by the raised surface. The simulated blood vessel path extends from a part other than the upper surface of the surfaces of the model main body to the simulated ulcer surface or an area in the vicinity of the inside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Denka Company Limited, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Akira Miyama, Toru Arai, Takashi Sasaki, Takeshi Kanno, Yularo Arata, Atsushi Masamune
  • Patent number: 11979122
    Abstract: An isolation amplifier of an embodiment includes: a primary circuit including an encoder configured to encode an input signal and output the encoded input signal and an anomaly detection circuit configured to detect anomaly having occurred to the input signal and generate a detection signal; an isolation unit configured to insulate the primary circuit from a secondary circuit; an output circuit configured to generate an output signal corresponding to the input signal; and an anomaly-input sensing-output circuit configured to generate an output signal from the secondary circuit by changing the output signal from the output circuit based on the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Arai, Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka, Tadashi Arai, Manabu Yamada, Shigeyasu Iwata, Takeshi Murasaki
  • Patent number: 11974042
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes an approximate curved surface conversion unit that includes a first stacked autoencoder pretrained on the basis of learning input data constituted by coordinate data acquired for each of multiple elements of an object, and that obtains approximate curved surface data indicating an approximate curved surface of the object in an intermediate layer of the first stacked autoencoder, on the basis of input data constituted by the coordinate data acquired for each of the elements, and a geometric modulation processing unit that includes a second stacked autoencoder having learned by machine learning on the basis of learning input data constituted by the approximate curved surface data and on the basis of training data constituted by a result obtained by coordinate conversion for each of the elements in a geometric modulation process performed for the object, and performs the geometric modulation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arai, Yuriko Ohtsuka, Kenichiro Nishi, Takeshi Masuura, Norimitsu Okiyama, Yuji Matsui, Satoshi Takashima
  • Publication number: 20240130804
    Abstract: A medical device includes an extracorporeal unit including a power transmitting unit that transmits electric power from outside of a living body into the living body in a non-contact manner, and a medical instrument embedded in the living body. The medical instrument includes a power receiving unit that receives the electric power transmitted from the power transmitting unit, a soft portion through which an injection needle is inserted, and a plurality of light emitting units that are provided along an outer edge of the soft portion and are each configured to emit light using the electric power received by the power receiving unit. A light amount adjusting unit that adjusts a light amount of a light-irradiated region including one or more light-irradiated portions to be projected on a body surface from the plurality of light emitting units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuki SUEMATSU, Takeshi YAGI, Atsushi HIMURA, Kazutaka NARA, Tsunenori ARAI
  • Patent number: 11964402
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11949160
    Abstract: A distributed antenna includes a strip member extending in a strip-like shape including a dielectric body of a plate shape having a first surface that is one surface of the dielectric body and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface; a transmission line provided on the first surface, on the second surface, or between the first surface and the second surface; and a plurality of antenna elements electrically connected to the transmission line and disposed in a distributed manner on the first surface or on the second surface, or electrically connected to the transmission line and disposed in a distributed manner between the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kumagai, Yasuo Morimoto, Takeshi Motegi, Keisuke Arai, Osamu Kagaya
  • Publication number: 20240096542
    Abstract: A signal transmission device according to the embodiment includes: a first integrated circuit chip provided with a first coil that constitutes the isolation transformer; a printed circuit board provided with a second coil that is magnetically coupled with the first coil to form the insulating transformer; a second integrated circuit chip having a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal provided on the upper surface; a first wire that electrically connects between one end of the second coil and the first connection terminal; and a second wire that electrically connects between the other end of the second coil and the second connection terminal, wherein the second coil is provided only in the wiring layer of the printed circuit board, which has a single wiring layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Bowen DANG, Takeshi MURASAKI, Takaya KITAHARA, Makoto ARAI, Shoji OOTAKA
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    Patent number: 11934901
    Abstract: A tag indicating an attribute of the tag by an electromagnetic wave reflection characteristic, the tag including a substrate (11), and a conductor pattern layer (12) formed on the substrate (11) and having first and second slots (13a) and (13b) disposed adjacent to each other, in which the first slot (13a) constitutes a first resonance element (13Qa) having a resonance frequency at a first frequency, the second slot (13b) constitutes a second resonance element (13Qb) having a resonance frequency at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, and when irradiation with the electromagnetic waves is performed, a Q value of a resonance peak appearing at the first frequency is higher than a Q value of a resonance peak appearing at the first frequency when the first slot (13a) alone constitutes a resonance structure of the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takumi Ishiwata, Nobuaki Takahashi, Kenji Arai, Takeshi Hakii
  • Patent number: 11927826
    Abstract: An optical unit according to one embodiment including: a reflection portion which reflects an incident light flux, which is made incident from outside, in a reflection direction toward an imaging element from an incident direction; a movable body provided with the reflection portion; a fixed body; a movable mechanism which allows the movable body to move relative to the fixed body; a gimbal mechanism provided with a first support portion which supports the movable body swingably about a first axis; and a bearing mechanism which supports the gimbal mechanism swingably relative to the fixed body about a second axis intersecting the first axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Arai, Takeshi Sue
  • Patent number: 11926067
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11914363
    Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11914397
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11913565
    Abstract: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Hosoya, Yusuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20230419486
    Abstract: A system includes a memory that stores a trained model and a processor. The processor acquires a captured image in which at least one energy device and at least one biological tissue are imaged. The processor performs a process based on the trained model stored in the memory to estimate a heat diffusion region and a specific tissue region from the captured image. The processor determines a risk for heat damage on a specific tissue by energy output from the energy device from the estimated heat diffusion region and the estimated specific tissue region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kantaro NISHIKAWA, Masatoshi IIDA, Shinji YASUNAGA, Yoshitaka HONDA, Takeshi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230404652
    Abstract: The system includes a memory that stores a trained model, and a processor. The processor acquires at least one treatment image including an image in which at least one energy device and at least one biological tissue are captured. The processor acquires information regarding an amount of energy supply, the information regarding an energy output setting of the energy device. The processor estimates, based on the treatment image, the information regarding the amount of energy supply, and the trained model, estimated remaining heat information regarding an amount of heat or a temperature of the energy device. The processor causes a notification section to make a notification based on the estimated remaining heat information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo UCHIDA, Hideyuki KASAHARA, Yoshitaka HONDA, Kazue TANAKA, Takeshi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230410298
    Abstract: The system includes a memory that stores a trained model, and a processor. The processor acquires a pre-treatment image in which at least one energy device and at least one biological tissue are imaged, and a state before application of energy is imaged. The processor estimates an estimated heat diffusion region from the pre-treatment image and information regarding an energy supply amount by processing based on a trained model stored in the memory. The processor superimposes the estimated heat diffusion region on a captured image of the camera and displays the captured image with the superimposed estimated heat diffusion region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro FUJII, Takeshi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230380695
    Abstract: The system includes a memory that stores first and second trained models, and a processor. The processor acquires a captured image in which at least one energy device and at least one biological tissue are imaged. The processor detects a bounding box from the captured image by processing based on the first trained model and estimates the image recognition information from the captured image in the bounding box by processing based on the second trained model. The processor outputs an energy output adjustment instruction based on the estimated image recognition information to the generator. The generator controls the energy supply amount to the energy device based on the energy output adjustment instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi ARAI, Hideyuki KASAHARA, Masatoshi IIDA, Shinji YASUNAGA, Yoshitaka HONDA, Kazue TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230240512
    Abstract: Provided is an endoscope system including an endoscope that images living tissue to be treated by at least one instrument; and a control device that includes a processor configured to derive at least one of the following information: grasp assistance information on a grasping operation to grasp the living tissue by the at least one instrument, and traction assistance information on a traction operation for traction of the living tissue by the at least one instrument, based on an endoscopic image acquired by the endoscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi ARAI, Masahiro FUJII, Takeo UCHIDA, Masayuki KOBAYASHI, Noriaki YAMANAKA, Hisatsugu TAJIMA