Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Matsuo
Tomohiro Matsuo 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: 9048611Abstract: The present application discloses a wavelength conversion device. The wavelength conversion device includes a light source for generating excitation light, a laser medium for generating fundamental light from the excitation light, a resonator mirror for forming a resonator for the fundamental light in cooperation with the laser medium, and a wavelength convertor for converting wavelength from the fundamental light into harmonic light. The wavelength convertor includes a first end surface inclined by an angle ? from a surface orthogonal to an optical axis of the resonator and a second end surface parallel to the first end surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Tetsuro Mizushima, Tatsuo Itoh, Hirohiko Oowaki, Tomohiro Matsuo
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Patent number: 9020181Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
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Patent number: 9014410Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
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Patent number: 9008345Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
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Publication number: 20150081095Abstract: Provided is a robot further improved in safety. The robot includes at least one link which is rotatably coupled around an axis, a motor which rotates the link around the axis, a first sensor which detects a rotation state of the motor, and a second sensor which detects a rotation state of the link. The robot also includes a controller which controls the rotation of the link based on information from the first sensor. The controller determines an operation state of at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor, based on first information from the first sensor and second information from the second sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tomoyuki SHIRAKI, Atsushi ICHIBANGASE, Yuji SAJIKAWA, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20150081096Abstract: A robot is provided with a base to be fixed to an installation surface, and an arm unit having a plurality of arm bodies sequentially and revolvably coupled with each other with one end coupled to the base through a joint unit. The arm unit has a stopper mechanism having a movable stopper member capable of restricting a revolving motion of the arm bodies to a predetermined revolving range. The movable stopper member is provided to one link of one of the pairs of links coupled through the joint unit, whereas the fixed stopper member, which is engaged with the movable stopper member, is provided to another link of the one of the pairs of links.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tomoyuki SHIRAKI, Atsushi ICHIBANGASE, Yuji SAJIKAWA, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20150012133Abstract: The working robot includes a plurality of link members coupled rotatably around shafts, a motor driving the link members, and a controller switching a state of use of winding wires of the motor based on a result of sensing a moving object including a human in a predetermined area. The controller switches the state of use of the winding wires of the motor, to drive the link members in a first mode in which the number of revolutions or the torque of the motor is relatively large, when the moving object is not present; and switches the state of use of the winding wires of the motor, to drive the link members in a second mode in which the number of revolutions or the torque of the motor is relatively small, when the moving object is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Yuji SAJIKAWA, Tomoyuki SHIRAKI, Atsushi ICHIBANGASE, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20150005940Abstract: Provided are a working robot and a robot system serving as a type coexisting with humans and improving reliability in safety. The working robot includes an arm, a driving mechanism, and a controller. The arm includes a plurality of link members that are coupled rotatably around shafts. The driving mechanism includes a driving source, and a plurality of power transmission paths capable of transmitting motive power from the driving source to the link members with mutually different numbers of revolutions or torques. The controller switches the power transmission paths, based on a sensing result for a moving object including a human body in a certain area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Atsushi ICHIBANGASE, Yuji SAJIKAWA, Tomoyuki SHIRAKI, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20140379613Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for measuring a dimension of an object to be measured in a low-load calculation processing. A handy terminal includes a depth map sensor block for generating a depth map of an object to be measured by use of a depth map sensor, and a coordinate transformation/side length calculation unit that measures a dimension of the object to be measured based on the depth map. The handy terminal may further includes a delivery fee calculation unit that calculates a delivery fee of the object to be measured based on the dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Hiroyuki NISHITANI, Toshihiko SATOHIRA, Yoshihiro TABIRA, Tomohiro MATSUO
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Patent number: 8913773Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
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Patent number: 8854210Abstract: An eco drive support apparatus which reports the eco degree of the driving operation of a vehicle by displaying a state relative to a judgment threshold which varies corresponding to the drive state of the vehicle. The apparatus has a power train ECU which computes the judgment threshold and an eco drive state amount expressing a ratio to the judgment threshold on the basis of the drive state of the vehicle and a meter ECU which indicates the eco drive state amount on the basis of information transmitted from the power train ECU. The power train ECU transmits the eco drive state amount to the meter ECU.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignees: Fujitsu Ten Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Masato Ishio, Kohichi Tomiyama, Masatoshi Watanabe, Kan Saito
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Patent number: 8849455Abstract: A robot system according to embodiments includes a position command generating unit that corrects a position command of a motor based on a rotation angle of the motor, which drives a link of a robot via a speed reducer, and a rotation angle of an output shaft of the speed reducer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Tetsuro Izumi, Tomohiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20140286040Abstract: A lamp according to an embodiment includes a plurality of light-emitting sections including a plurality of kinds of light-emitting elements provided side by side in a predetermined direction on a substrate and configured to respectively emit lights of different colors, luminous fluxes of the lights respectively emitted by the light-emitting elements being separately controllable. The lamp according to the embodiment includes a pipe configured to diffuse the lights emitted by the light-emitting elements and formed including a translucent material, linear transmittance of which is any value of 0% to 50%. A distance ādā from a lower part of the pipe to the light-emitting elements is larger than the inner radius of the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Soichi Shibusawa, Yumiko Hayashida, Seiko Kawashima, Kozo Uemura, Tomohiro Matsuo, Yuiko Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8840097Abstract: A production system includes a workpiece stocker, a dual-arm robot, and a second robot. A workpiece is to be placed on the workpiece. The dual-arm robot is arranged at a transportation access portion of the workpiece stocker. The second robot is arranged to face a forward portion of a torso of the dual-arm robot.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Yusuke Hirano, Tomohiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20140277726Abstract: A robot system is provided, which includes a robot having an operable operation arm, an attachment detector for detecting one or more attachments, each attached to a wearing article equipped by a movable body, and a motion-control changer for changing a motion control of the robot based on a detection result detected by the attachment detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tamio NAKAMURA, Dai KOUNO, Takashi SUYAMA, Takashi NISHIMURA, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20140277725Abstract: A robot system of the present disclosure includes a robot and a controller configured to control motion of the robot, and the controller includes: a motion mode storage unit storing a plurality of motion modes for controlling the robot to switch a motion state of the robot from a normal motion state to a special motion state when a predetermined first condition is satisfied; and a motion mode switching unit configured to switch the motion mode of the robot to another motion mode when, while a particular motion mode stored in the motion mode storage unit is in execution, a predetermined second condition for the particular motion mode is satisfied with a first condition for the particular motion mode satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Dai KOUNO, Tamio NAKAMURA, Takashi SUYAMA, Takashi NISHIMURA, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20140277723Abstract: A robot system of the present disclosure includes: a robot including an operable working arm; a motion speed detection unit configured to detect a motion speed of the working arm; a region setting unit that sets a region with a predetermined range around the robot; a moving body detection unit configured to detect a position of the moving body other than the robot; and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine abnormality when detecting of the position of the moving body within the region, wherein the region setting unit changes the range of the region according to the motion speed of the working arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takashi NISHIMURA, Tamio NAKAMURA, Dai KOUNO, Takashi SUYAMA, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20140277724Abstract: A robot system of the present disclosure includes: a robot including an operable working arm driven by an actuator; an operation load detection unit configured to detect an operation load of the actuator; a region setting unit that sets a region with a predetermined range around the robot; a moving body detection unit configured to detect a position of a moving body other than the robot; and an abnormality determination unit that determines abnormality when detecting of the position of the moving body within the region, wherein the region setting unit changes the range of the region in accordance with the operation load of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takashi SUYAMA, Tamio NAKAMURA, Dai KOUNO, Takashi NISHIMURA, Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Publication number: 20140259644Abstract: A control apparatus generally performs a control such that a robot picks up components from a component loading tray in order according to an assembling sequence and assembles the components. Meanwhile, when the robot fails to pick up the components according to the assembling sequence, the control apparatus controls the operation of the robot such that the robot first picks up a component having a high picking-up possibility and first assembles the corresponding picked-up components according to the assembling sequence between the corresponding picked-up components. Thereafter, the control apparatus changes a picking-up condition and controls the operation of the robot such that the robot picks up the components before assembling based on the changed picking-up condition and assembles the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tomohiro MATSUO, Shinichi ISHIKAWA, Tomoki KAWANO
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Patent number: 8611581Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito