Patents by Inventor Tomio Higo

Tomio Higo 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: 20240100699
    Abstract: A controller of a robot executes processing of determining whether an apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact and, when determination is made that the apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact in a case where a movable part is in a first state in which the movable part is able to cause the apparatus to execute a physical operation, transferring the movable part from the first state to a second state for suppressing an impact exerted on the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Tomio HIGO
  • Publication number: 20240047989
    Abstract: A power receiving device includes: a placement portion; a power feeder including a coil; a thermal conduction member disposed at a location that is located between the power receiving device and the coil control of stopping power feeding by the power feeder a processor to perform control of stopping power feeding by the power feeder in a case where after start of power feeding by the power feeder at a predetermined timing, temperature of the thermal conduction member detected by the sensor satisfies a predetermined condition. the power receiving device is placed on the placement surface and having a higher thermal conductivity than the placement portion; a sensor to detect temperature of the thermal conduction member; and a processor to perform control of stopping power feeding by the power feeder in a case where, temperature of the thermal conduction member detected by the sensor satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Tomio HIGO
  • Patent number: 9477145
    Abstract: A light source device has a laser light emitting element including a cylinder portion, a flange portion and lead wire terminals, a collimator lens, a collimator lens holder including a collimator lens mounting depressed portion and a hole portion communicating with the depressed portion and accommodating the cylinder portion, and a light source element holder holding the laser light emitting element and including a lead wire outlet hole portion accommodating the lead wire terminals and penetrating from a front surface to a rear surface, and a front surface of the flange portion is fastened by the perimeter of a rear end of the hole portion to press the laser light emitting element against the front surface of the light source element holder to thereby fix the laser light emitting element to the light source element holder, an adhesion fixing member being filled in the lead wire outlet hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomio Higo
  • Patent number: 6173762
    Abstract: A heat exchanger tube for a falling film evaporator has fins provided on the outer periphery of the tube body and extending in a direction transverse or in oblique to the axial direction of the tube. The fins have heights in a range of 0.2 to 0.8 mm. The fins are arranged in a density to have 905 to 1102 in number of fins per 1 m in the axial direction. Grooves formed in the tip end of the fins and extending substantially along the fins, the mutually opposing inner peripheral wall surface of the groove defining an angle within a range of 70° to 150°. Cut-outs formed in the tip end of the fins, the cut-outs being provided at a pitch in a range of 0.5 to 1.0 mm. With this construction, the heat exchanger tube for the falling film evaporator which exhibits a high refrigerant wetting and spreading ability as well as large surface area for providing remarkably improved heat transmission performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ishida, Tomio Higo, Tetsuo Uchida, Masahiro Furukawa, Masashi Izumi, Kazuhiro Yoshii
  • Patent number: 4577381
    Abstract: A method for producing a boiling heat transfer pipe having in the circumferential wall thereof one or a number of helical or annular cavities under a ceiling wall containing a row of openings regularly spaced at predetermined intervals along the length of the cavities, such method partly including in an arbitrary order the steps of: (a) pressing a set of groove-rolling discs of gradually increased diameters against the outer surface of a blank pipe to form a fin around the circumference of the pipe; (b) pressing a notching gear against the outer side of the fin to cut notches in upper fin portions at predetermined intervals along the length of the fin; (c) pressing a set of splitting roller discs with splitting edges of gradually increased angles substantially along a center line on the outer side of the fin to split and spread apart the upper fin portions in the axial direction of the pipe; and (d) pressing a press roller centrally against the split upper fin portions to form flat side wings on lateral sides
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sato, Akio Isozaki, Tomio Higo, Tetsuo Uchida
  • Patent number: 4330036
    Abstract: A heat transfer wall comprises a heat transfer wall body, a number of fins integrally formed on one surface of the body, extending parallel to each other and having breaks formed therein at predetermined intervals, and a number of beads integrally formed on the other surface of the body. This arrangement may be applied to a heat transfer pipe. Thus, the pipe comprises a heat transfer pipe body, at least one row of spiral fins integrally formed on the outer surface of the body and having breaks formed therein at predetermined intervals, and a number of beads integrally formed on the inner surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Satoh, Tomio Higo