Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Sawada

Tsutomu Sawada 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: 20170169582
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a novel and improved information processing device that can make more efficient an inspection performed by a flying body capable of performing imaging. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including an imaging position information acquisition unit configured to acquire imaging position information at a time when a structure is imaged which is acquired by an imaging device configured to fly over a periphery of the structure to image the structure on the basis of certain flight information, and a damage data generating unit configured to use a captured image of the structure imaged by the imaging device and the imaging position information and to generate data related to damage of the structure including position information of damage of the structure included in the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Kayoko Tanaka, Kohtaro Sabe, Tsutomu Sawada, Satoru Shimizu, Kousuke Suzuki, Peter Duerr, Miki Shibuya, Hironari Mizumura
  • Patent number: 9601862
    Abstract: A charge connector includes a connector case and a connector body. The connector case includes a pair of case split members to be coupled together. The connector body is housed in the connector case and includes charge terminals connected with electric wires and housed in a connector housing. The connector housing is provided with rotation direction regulation projections. The case split members are provided with rotation direction regulation holes that engage with the rotation direction regulation projections. The case split member is provided with a temporarily holding portion for holding the connector housing at a temporarily housed position. The connector housing is provided with a temporarily held portion at which the temporarily holding portion is locked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Satoshi Okuda, Tsutomu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20170010615
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device that can make more efficient an inspection performed by a flying body capable of performing imaging. [Solution] Provided is a control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to an overview of a structure, and a flight information generating unit configured to generate flight information of a flying body being caused to fly over a periphery of the structure to image the structure on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit. The control device generates information used to cause the flying body to image the structure, and thereby makes it possible to make more efficient the inspection performed by the flying body capable of performing imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kayoko Tanaka, Kohtaro Sabe, Miki Shibuya, Tsutomu Sawada, Satoru Shimizu, Kousuke Suzuki, Haruto Takeda, Peter Duerr, Masaomi Nabeta, Takekazu Kakinuma, Hironari Mizumura
  • Patent number: 9531100
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal to be connected to a mating terminal by a relative movement between the terminal and the mating terminal; a connector housing supporting the terminal; and a terminal displacement portion displaceably supporting the terminal in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the relative movement between the terminal and the mating terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Daisuke Sugiyama, Tsutomu Sawada
  • Patent number: 9525229
    Abstract: A terminal having a dissimilar material different from a contact base material, the dissimilar material arranged on a surface of a sliding contact portion on which a mating terminal slides includes a groove provided in the sliding contact portion in a direction different from a sliding direction of the mating terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Sawada, Tomokazu Iwami, Hirotaka Fukushima, Takashi Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20160299564
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of a user's face and operations performed by the user, and an area selection unit configured to, when the operation detection unit detects that the user has performed a first operation, select an area on a screen based on the orientation of the user's face during the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsutomu SAWADA
  • Patent number: 9463702
    Abstract: A charging inlet device (1, 2, 3) includes: an inlet housing (10) fixed to a vehicle body panel (P) with a charging port (11A) open towards an outer side of a vehicle body; a terminal (20) arranged in the charging port (11A); and a rear connector (50) mounted to the inlet housing (10) on an opposite side from the charging port (11A) and having a wire lead-out terminal (52) connecting the terminal (20) and an electrical wire (W) routed through the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Daisuke Sugiyama, Tsutomu Sawada
  • Patent number: 9444167
    Abstract: A male terminal (40) includes a terminal body (41) and an insulating member (45). The terminal body (41) includes a cylindrical terminal contact portion (42) provided with a penetration hole (42a) extending in the axial direction. The insulating member (45) includes a tip insulating portion (46) projecting forward from the tip of the terminal contact portion (42), a terminal holding portion (47) disposed on the rear side of the terminal contact portion (42) to hold the terminal body (41), and a communicating resin portion (48) disposed in the penetration hole (42a) to connect the tip insulating portion (46) and the terminal holding portion (47).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Daisuke Sugiyama, Tsutomu Sawada
  • Patent number: 9431739
    Abstract: A terminal includes an insulating leading-end insulation portion (8) that is fixed to a conductive terminal main body (7) and that protrudes in front of a leading end of a terminal contact portion (72). The terminal contact portion (72) is formed in a cylindrical shape including a rod through-hole (71) penetrating in an axial direction, and the leading-end insulation portion (8) is formed as a part of an insulation member (82) including a penetrating rod portion (81) penetrating through the rod through-hole (71) and protruding to a back end side of the rod through-hole (71); and the leading-end insulation portion (8) and the back end side of the penetrating rod portion (81) are respectively engaged with respect to the terminal main body (7) in a removal direction to thereby fix the insulation member (82) into the terminal main body (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Tsutomu Sawada, Takashi Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20160236352
    Abstract: Provided is an excellent robot device capable of preferably detecting difference between dirt and a scratch on a lens of a camera and difference between dirt and a scratch on a hand. A robot device 100 detects a site in which there is the dirt or the scratch using an image of the hand taken by a camera 305 as a reference image. Further, this determines whether the detected dirt or scratch is due to the lens of the camera 305 or the hand by moving the hand. The robot device 100 performs cleaning work assuming that the dirt is detected, and then this detects the difference between the dirt and the scratch depending on whether the dirt is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20160202046
    Abstract: Provided are: a sheet of colloidal crystals immobilized in resin exhibiting intense structural color, enabled to be observed easily from a squarely facing direction against a surface; and use thereof. The sheet of the present invention, assuming a direction perpendicular to part of a surface of a target area including partially the sheet surface is set as a specified axis, satisfies: (1) The target area includes plural inclined back-reflecting crystal-domains crystal domains having colloid particles immobilized in resin and including crystal lattice planes capable of Bragg-back reflecting at least some of components in a visible wavelength range of incident light having greater than 0 incident angle with the specified axis; and (2) By defining an azimuth angle around the specified axis, the inclined back-reflecting crystal-domains are so oriented that intensity of reflected light caused by Bragg back reflection varies depending on the azimuth angle of the incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawanaka, Fumio Uchida, Tsutomu Sawada, Seiichi Furumi
  • Patent number: 9377851
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of a user's face and operations performed by the user, and an area selection unit configured to, when the operation detection unit detects that the user has performed a first operation, select an area on a screen based on the orientation of the user's face during the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20160178493
    Abstract: A sheet of colloidal crystals immobilized in resin exhibiting intense structural color and allowing easy observation thereof from squarely facing direction against the surface; and application thereof are provided. The sheet includes crystal domains comprising colloidal crystals immobilized in resin. The Bragg reflection intensity resulting from crystal domains according to back reflection spectrum measurement to the sheet surface satisfies the following conditions (1) and (2). (1) When elevation angle from the sheet surface is in a range of at least 60° and less than 90° and measurement is performed at a predetermined azimuth angle on the sheet surface, intensity is not 0 and (2) when elevation angle from the sheet surface is in the range of at least 60° and less than 90° and azimuth dependency on the sheet surface is measured, the intensity exhibits a maximum value at the predetermined azimuth angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawanaka, Fumio Uchida, Tsutomu Sawada, Seiichi Furumi
  • Patent number: 9358690
    Abstract: Provided is an excellent robot device capable of preferably detecting difference between dirt and a scratch on a lens of a camera and difference between dirt and a scratch on a hand. A robot device 100 detects a site in which there is the dirt or the scratch using an image of the hand taken by a camera 305 as a reference image. Further, this determines whether the detected dirt or scratch is due to the lens of the camera 305 or the hand by moving the hand. The robot device 100 performs cleaning work assuming that the dirt is detected, and then this detects the difference between the dirt and the scratch depending on whether the dirt is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsutomu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20160082590
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes: a grasping section configured to grasp an object; a recognition section configured to recognize a graspable part and a handing-over area part of the object; a grasp planning section configured to plan a path of the grasping section for handing over the object to a recipient by the handing-over area part; and a grasp control section configured to control grasp operation of the object by the grasping section in accordance with the planned path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Yasunori Kawanami, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tsutomu Sawada, Masakuni Nagano, Akinori Kamoda
  • Patent number: 9293855
    Abstract: A seal member (40) is formed of an integral body including a case split surface seal portion (41) arranged along whole circumferences of abutting surfaces (3, 7) surrounding a portion of a connector body (20) housed inside an exterior case (2) and interposed between the abutting surfaces (3, 7) of two case split bodies (2A, 2B), a connector body seal portion (42) arranged along a whole circumference of a connector fitting portion projecting hole (9) and interposed between the exterior case (2) and the connector body (20), and an electric wire seal portion (43) arranged along a whole circumference of an electric wire pullout hole (10) and interposed between the exterior case (2) and an electric wire (W1) pulled out from the connector body (20) and led outside the exterior case (2) through the electric wire pullout hole (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Sawada, Norihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 9263830
    Abstract: A charging connector includes a connector housing to be fitted to a power receiving connector, a connector case housing the connector housing, a lock arm arranged to be swingable about a swing fulcrum between a lock position and a release position, and a coil spring located toward a power receiving connector away from the swing fulcrum to bias the lock arm toward the lock position. The lock arm is provided with a spring compartment housing the coil spring in a manner such that the periphery of the coil spring is enclosed. The spring compartment is provided, on a bottom portion thereof, with a penetration hole extending in the lock arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Sugiyama, Tsutomu Sawada, Takashi Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 9243436
    Abstract: A spring hook structure includes: a torsion coil spring including a coil portion and a first arm and a second arm extending from each side of the coil portion; and a rotation support pin by which a cap is rotatably supported on an exterior case. The rotation support pin is inserted into the coil portion. The first arm is hooked on a first hook surface of the exterior case, and the second arm is hooked on a second hook surface of the cap. At least one of the exterior case and the cap is provided with a regulation wall at a position not interfering with the arm moving along the hook surface due to flexural deformation of the coil portion but interfering with the arm moving along the hook surface due to flexural deformation of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Sawada, Norihisa Yamada, Takashi Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 9205559
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes: a grasping section configured to grasp an object; a recognition section configured to recognize a graspable part and a handing-over area part of the object; a grasp planning section configured to plan a path of the grasping section for handing over the object to a recipient by the handing-over area part; and a grasp control section configured to control grasp operation of the object by the grasping section in accordance with the planned path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Kawanami, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tsutomu Sawada, Masakuni Nagano, Akinori Kamoda
  • Publication number: 20150295344
    Abstract: A seal member (40) is formed of an integral body including a case split surface seal portion (41) arranged along whole circumferences of abutting surfaces (3, 7) surrounding a portion of a connector body (20) housed inside an exterior case (2) and interposed between the abutting surfaces (3, 7) of two case split bodies (2A, 2B), a connector body seal portion (42) arranged along a whole circumference of a connector fitting portion projecting hole (9) and interposed between the exterior case (2) and the connector body (20), and an electric wire seal portion (43) arranged along a whole circumference of an electric wire pullout hole (10) and interposed between the exterior case (2) and an electric wire (W1) pulled out from the connector body (20) and led outside the exterior case (2) through the electric wire pullout hole (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Tsutomu Sawada, Norihisa Yamada