Patents by Inventor Tomoya Takahashi
Tomoya Takahashi 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: 9409361Abstract: A mold (10) according to the present invention is a mold for molding a surface of a laminate (60) when curing the laminate (60) obtained by laminating prepreg (62). The mold (10) has a planar plate shape and elastically deforms from the planar plate shape into a shape corresponding to a shape of the laminate (60), thereby being capable of coming tight into contact with the laminate (60). Thereby, a mold which is easy to handle can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshikazu Sana, Akihito Sakai, Akira Murai, Yasuhiro Takenaka, Kazuyoshi Kawano, Tomoya Takahashi
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Publication number: 20160157322Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a cooling device configured to be able to cool a semiconductor light-emitting device, a light-emitting device drive section that supplies a semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal to the semiconductor light-emitting device, a cooling device drive section that supplies a cooling device drive signal to the cooling device, a semiconductor light-emitting device drive control section that sets a duty ratio of the semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal and controls an amount of light emission of the semiconductor light-emitting device, and a cooling device drive control section that generates the cooling device drive signal having a same duty ratio as the duty ratio of the semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal and having timing synchronized with the semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal and adjusts a signal level of the cooling device drive signal based on a measurement result of a temperature of the semiconductor light-emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke YABE, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Yusuke YOSHIDA, Masato TODA
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Publication number: 20160143520Abstract: An endoscope system including a control section that controls an LED driving section to supply driving currents to LEDs of a plurality of colors to cause the LEDs to emit lights in a frame-sequential manner and a processor that divides a total exposure period in one frame period of the frame-sequential light emission into ratios of light emission periods for each of the respective colors obtained by dividing light amount ratios of the lights of the plurality of colors, which should be received in a CCD, respectively by respective maximum light emission intensities of the LEDs of the plurality of colors and sets respective maximum light emission periods of the LEDs of the plurality of colors.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro MASAKI, Yusuke YABE, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Masato TODA, Yutaka SHIROTA, Daisuke AKIYAMA, Koji OMORI
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Publication number: 20160135255Abstract: An induction-heating cooker has a heating coil, an insulation plate on which the heating coil is placed, a ferrite on which the insulation plate is placed, and a support body on which the ferrite is placed and that is made of a nonmagnetic metal material. The support body has an uneven part for positioning the ferrite to be placed on an upper surface of the support body with respect to the support body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji OGAWA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi ISAGO, Hidekazu SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20160113070Abstract: An induction-heating cooker has a top plate on which a cooking container is placed, a heating coil disposed below the top plate, an insulation plate on which the heating coil is placed, a ferrite on which the insulation plate is placed, a metallic magnetic shield plate on which the ferrite is placed, an infrared sensor arranged below the magnetic shield plate to detect an infrared ray radiated from the cooking container, a casing having at least a bottom part located below the infrared sensor and a side wall part extended upward from the bottom part so as to surround the infrared sensor and made from an electrically conductive material, and a spacer intervening between the lower surface of the magnetic shield plate and the upper end of the casing in contact with both these surfaces and made from a material having electrical insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Hidekazu SUZUKI, Kenji OGAWA, Hiroshi ISAGO, Tomoya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160037999Abstract: A light source apparatus includes: a control section that acquires information relating to a ratio of a light amount value for light with second wavelength band to a light amount value for light with first wavelength band, obtains a light amount value for the light with the first wavelength band so that an observation image has a predetermined brightness, and, from the information relating to the ratio, determines a light amount value for the light with the second wavelength band, and generates light adjustment information for making first and second semiconductor light sources emit light with the light amount value for the light with the first wavelength band and the light amount value for the light with the second wavelength band; and a drive section that, based on the light adjustment information generated by the control section, drives the first and second semiconductor light sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke YABE, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Kotaro OGASAWARA, Satoshi TANAKA, Aiko SAKAI
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Publication number: 20160023653Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus applied to a hybrid vehicle provided with a dual clutch transmission in which a first input shaft is connected via a first clutch to an internal combustion engine and a second input shaft is connected via a second clutch to the internal combustion engine; a first motor generator connected to the first input shaft; and a second motor generator connected to the second input shaft. The first clutch is a normally open clutch, and the second clutch is a normally closed clutch. When detecting that hydraulic pressure is impossible to be supplied from a hydraulic supply system to both clutches, retreat travel is performed whereby a drive wheel is driven with the power of the first motor generator while the second motor generator is driven by the internal combustion engine for generating electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Takaaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20150367841Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hybrid vehicle comprising a dual clutch transmission having six forward speed stages, wherein arranged between a first input shaft and a first output shaft of the transmission are: a first gear train for a first speed stage; a third gear train corresponding for a third speed stage; a fifth gear train for a fifth speed stage; and a sixth gear train for a sixth speed stage. A second gear train for a second speed stage and a fourth gear train for a fourth speed stage are arranged between a second input shaft and a second output shaft. A first sleeve is provided between the first gear train and the third gear train; a second sleeve is provided between the fifth gear train and the sixth gear train; and a third sleeve is provided between the second gear train and the fourth gear train. A second MG is provided so as to output drive power to the second input shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Mitsuhiro TABATA, Takaaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20150333681Abstract: In a control apparatus, an interference-reduction current calculator calculates, as an interference reduction current, a component of a current vector in a coordinate axis in a rotating coordinate system defined with respect to a rotor of the rotary machine. The current vector flows in the rotary machine, and the coordinate axis serves as an interference reduction coordinate axis in which the component of the current vector has reduced interference from change of the phase of the output voltage vector. An amplitude setter sets, as a manipulated variable for feedback controlling the interference reduction current to a command current value based on a command value for a controlled variable, one of: an amplitude of the output voltage vector, and an amplitude parameter indicative of a component of the output voltage vector. The component of the output voltage vector depends on the amplitude of the output voltage vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Yousuke MATSUKI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9172317Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a multi-winding rotary machine including an armature formed of a plurality of winding sets. In the apparatus, a command voltage calculator calculates command voltages to be applied to each winding set so as to control currents detected by a current detector to their respectively corresponding command currents. An interfering voltage calculator calculates, for each of the winding sets, interfering voltages proportional to the rotation speed of the rotary machine. An interfering voltage compensator compensates, for each of the winding sets, the command voltages for their respectively corresponding interfering voltages. An operation unit operates a voltage applicator to apply output values of the interfering voltage compensator to each winding set.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Ishida, Tomoya Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150274326Abstract: A technique which can assemble a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical shape and being dividable into plurality of segments, which is used for manufacturing, for example, a fuselage of an aircraft, with high position accuracy and an easy manner. In a segment fastening step, a segment which is a fastened target is fastened to a specified fastening portion which is one of a plurality of fastening portions set along a pair of support rings placed to face each other. In a rotation step, before the segment fastening step, the support rings are rotated so that the specified fastening portion is located at an uppermost portion of the support rings. In the segment fastening step, the segment which is the fastened target is placed between the support rings and lifted vertically up to a height corresponding to the specified fastening portion and then fastened to the support rings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshikazu SANA, Naoki TAMURA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Toshiaki TAKECHI
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Patent number: 9137453Abstract: A control apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a cycle from a first irradiation start timing to a second irradiation start timing to be shorter than a cycle of each of first and second picture periods. The first irradiation start timing is a timing at which a light source device starts radiating pulsed illumination light in the first picture period in which an image pickup device performs reading. The second irradiation start timing is a timing at which the light source device starts radiating the illumination light in the second picture period succeeding the first picture period and having the same cycle as the first picture period.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Kotaro Ogasawara, Tomoya Takahashi, Yusuke Yabe, Susumu Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20150224679Abstract: The present invention provides a technique which can disassemble a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical shape and being dividable into a plurality of segments, easily and efficiently. The disassembling method comprises, in the mandrel adhesively attached with a composite material structure on an outer peripheral surface thereof, a rotation step of rotating the pair of support rings along with the mandrel to position a segment which is a detached target to an uppermost portion; and a segment detaching step of detaching the segment which is the detached target positioned at the uppermost portion, from the pair of support rings; wherein in the segment detaching step, the segment which is the detached target is moved in a vertically downward direction to a position inside of the mandrel, between the pair of support rings, and is carried out from between the pair of support rings.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshikazu SANA, Naoki TAMURA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9090256Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an engine, a motor disposed nearer to drive wheel sides than the engine in a vehicle, and a clutch disposed between the engine and the motor and configured to be engaged or released according to an operation input, wherein at the time the clutch is engaged to connect the engine and the drive wheels while the vehicle travels with the engine being stopped, the engine is started by the power transmitted to the engine via the clutch as well as the motor is caused to output assist torque for suppressing a reduction of acceleration of the vehicle caused by that the clutch is engaged, and the assist torque when a braking operation is performed is smaller than the assist torque when the braking operation is not performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoya Takahashi
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Patent number: 9084557Abstract: An endoscope light source apparatus includes a turret provided with a first optical filter and a second optical filter for transmitting an illuminating light, an instruction section in which an operation instruction of the turret is inputted, a drive section that drives the turret, a first detector that detects a position of the turret, a first detected portion for identifying a position of the first optical filter, a second detected portion for identifying a position of the second optical filter, a second detector that optically detects a position of the first or the second detected portion, and a turret control section that outputs a drive signal to the drive section to move the turret until the first or the second detected portion is detected by the second detector and stop the turret in response to the first or the second detected portion being detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Takahiro Masaki, Kyosuke Mizuno, Rihito Ishikawa, Tomoya Takahashi
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Patent number: 9079654Abstract: A technique which can assemble a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical shape and being dividable into plurality of segments, which is used for manufacturing, for example, a fuselage of an aircraft, with high position accuracy and an easy manner. In a segment fastening step, a segment which is a fastened target is fastened to a specified fastening portion which is one of a plurality of fastening portions set along a pair of support rings placed to face each other. In a rotation step, before the segment fastening step, the support rings are rotated so that the specified fastening portion is located at an uppermost portion of the support rings. In the segment fastening step, the segment which is the fastened target is placed between the support rings and lifted vertically up to a height corresponding to the specified fastening portion and then fastened to the support rings.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshikazu Sana, Naoki Tamura, Tomoya Takahashi, Toshiaki Takechi
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Patent number: 9029755Abstract: An imaging system includes: an illumination unit configured to emit illumination light for illuminating a subject; a light receiving unit in which pixels are arranged two-dimensionally, each pixel being configured to receive light and generate an electric signal by performing photoelectric conversion of the light; a readout unit configured to sequentially read out the electric signal from the light receiving unit for every horizontal line; and an illumination controller configured to keep intensity of the illumination light emitted from the illumination unit constant in at least a part of a readout period where the readout unit reads out the horizontal line of the light receiving unit in one frame or one field period, and configured to variably control an illumination time of the illumination light emitted from the illumination unit, outside the readout period.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Wataru Ono, Yusuke Yabe, Tomoya Takahashi, Kotaro Ogasawara
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Patent number: 9021678Abstract: The present invention provides a technique which can disassemble a mandrel having a substantially cylindrical shape and being dividable into a plurality of segments, easily and efficiently. The disassembling method comprises, in the mandrel adhesively attached with a composite material structure on an outer peripheral surface thereof, a rotation step of rotating the pair of support rings along with the mandrel to position a segment which is a detached target to an uppermost portion; and a segment detaching step of detaching the segment which is the detached target positioned at the uppermost portion, from the pair of support rings; wherein in the segment detaching step, the segment which is the detached target is moved in a vertically downward direction to a position inside of the mandrel, between the pair of support rings, and is carried out from between the pair of support rings.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshikazu Sana, Naoki Tamura, Tomoya Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150114953Abstract: In order to provide an induction heating cooking device in which a supporting configuration of a heating coil unit is simple and can be easily assembled, and which can accurately and constantly maintain a distance between a top plate and heating coils, opposite side surfaces of a framework laid out below the top plate are configured to have first vertical parts, first horizontal parts, and second vertical parts. A heating coil supporting member that supports the heating coils is disposed to be bridged between the first horizontal parts of the opposite side surfaces of the framework, and the heating coil unit having the heating coil is configured to be securely supported by the first horizontal parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Tomoya Takahashi, Kenji Ogawa, Hiroshi Isago, Shumpei Ando, Masahiro Yokono, Ryuuji Nagata, Katsuyuki Aihara, Shozo Ushio
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Patent number: 9013137Abstract: In a system for driving an inverter, a superimposing element superimposes, on an output voltage of the inverter. The high-frequency voltage signal is correlated with a measured high-frequency component value of a current flowing in the rotary machine. A calculating element calculates a rotational angle of the rotary machine based on the measured high-frequency component value. A dead-time compensating element shifts a start edge and an end edge of an on duration for each of first and second switching elements of the inverter by a preset same time to compensate for an error due to dead time. A current manipulating element manipulates a current flowing in the rotary machine to maintain an accuracy of calculation of the rotational angle.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Yasuaki Aoki, Hiroko Yoneshima, Tomoya Takahashi