Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Noguchi

Yoshiaki Noguchi 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: 11794819
    Abstract: In an engine compartment, an engine, a generator using the engine as a power source, a motor for driving the vehicle, and a gear box are arranged in alignment in a vehicle width direction. The first high-voltage equipment is vertically provided on a generating unit that includes the engine and the generator. The second high-voltage equipment is vertically provided on a drive unit that includes the motor and the gear box. The first high-voltage equipment and the second high-voltage equipment are coupled by a coupling member that extends substantially horizontally in the vehicle width direction and supports the high-voltage equipment, against a falling load directed from one thereof toward the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Hamada, Kazuki Hirota, Satoshi Nakamura, Toshimitsu Yugami, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Koji Jahara
  • Publication number: 20230297065
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which extracts a means which reduces a manufacturing time pertaining to a machining pre-step, a machining step, and a machining post-step in manufacturing artifacts by means of a control device, the information processing device comprising: a storage unit which stores machining-related information related to the machining of a workpiece and includes a machining program; a manufacturing time estimation unit which estimates at least one work step from the machining-related information stored in the storage unit and calculates the manufacturing time necessary for the machining of a workpiece by calculating the time taken for the estimated work step; and a reducing means determination unit which selects, from among a plurality of means pre-stored in the storage unit, a means for reducing the time for the at least one work step estimated by the manufacturing time estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiaki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230191898
    Abstract: A vehicle drive system includes a motor (drive motor), a generator, a reduction drive that reduces output of the motor, and a housing. At a position above a motor shaft, an oil passage, through which oil is supplied to each of the motor, the reduction drive, and the generator, is integrally formed with the housing. An oil pipe is attached to the housing and supplies the oil from an oil reservoir to the oil passage. At a position between the motor and the generator, the reduction drive is offset from the motor shaft in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The oil pipe is located between the motor and the generator in the first direction, and at least part of the oil pipe is located on an opposite side of the reduction drive with the motor shaft being interposed therebetween in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yuya Yamaoka, Ryuichiro Amano, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Masaaki Kashimoto, Yusuke Oki, Li-Hsuan Huang, Sheng-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 11662499
    Abstract: A foreign object detecting device includes: an input unit to which a detection signal is inputted from a sheet-type pressure sensor; a sensor information processing unit configured to, based on the detection signal, generate sensor information indicating an area in a detection area of the pressure sensor to which a pressure is being applied; and a judgement unit configured to compare the sensor information and basic layout information indicating a predetermined area in the detection area to which a pressure is applied, to thereby judge whether a foreign object is present in the detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230138652
    Abstract: A speed adjustment support device calculates a jerk per unit time based on a difference in acceleration for each axis of an industrial machine between control cycles, compares the calculated jerk with an allowable jerk for each axis stored in advance, produces exceedance information including at least an exceeding state and an improvement means in a case of jerk exceedance as a result of the comparison, and supports work of adjusting a parameter related to speed of the industrial machine based on the exceedance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiaki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11420507
    Abstract: A power train support structure includes a first front side frame disposed on one of left and right sides of a power train; a second front side frame disposed on the other of the left and right sides of the power train, and being greatly away from the power train with respect to the first front side frame; a mounting bracket having one of left and right ends connected to the power train; and a connecting member for connecting the mounting bracket and the second front side frame. The mounting bracket includes a front fixing portion and a rear fixing portion to be fixed to the power train. A strength of the front fixing portion and the rear fixing portion is set to such a strength that the rear fixing portion is broken by a collision load from a front side, and the front fixing portion is not broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kuwahara, Takashi Hamada, Yuuki Uchiba, Yuya Yamaoka, Yusuke Oki, Masaaki Kashimoto, Ryuichiro Amano, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Kazuki Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20210379979
    Abstract: A vehicle driving apparatus is provided that includes a drive motor, an internal combustion engine, and an electrical generator and can inhibit a weight balance and motion performance of a vehicle from being deteriorated and lowered. A vehicle driving apparatus driving a vehicle by motive power of a motor, the vehicle driving apparatus including a drive motor that is driven by electric power, an internal combustion engine that produces motive power by fuel, and an electrical generator that is driven by the internal combustion engine, the vehicle driving apparatus being characterized in that the drive motor, the internal combustion engine, and the electrical generator are arranged in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle in order of the drive motor, the internal combustion engine, and the electrical generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Seiyo HIRANO, Kei YONEMORI, Satoshi MARUYAMA, Shinji FUJIHIRA, Wataru KUWAHARA, Tomoya KAKITE, Yoshiaki NOGUCHI, Ryuichiro AMANO, Mitsuhiro HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20210053624
    Abstract: In an engine compartment, an engine, a generator using the engine as a power source, a motor for driving the vehicle, and a gear box are arranged in alignment in a vehicle width direction. The first high-voltage equipment is vertically provided on a generating unit that includes the engine and the generator. The second high-voltage equipment is vertically provided on a drive unit that includes the motor and the gear box. The first high-voltage equipment and the second high-voltage equipment are coupled by a coupling member that extends substantially horizontally in the vehicle width direction and supports the high-voltage equipment, against a falling load directed from one thereof toward the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi HAMADA, Kazuki HIROTA, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Toshimitsu YUGAMI, Yoshiaki NOGUCHI, Koji JAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210003736
    Abstract: A foreign object detecting device includes: an input unit to which a detection signal is inputted from a sheet-type pressure sensor; a sensor information processing unit configured to, based on the detection signal, generate sensor information indicating an area in a detection area of the pressure sensor to which a pressure is being applied; and a judgement unit configured to compare the sensor information and basic layout information indicating a predetermined area in the detection area to which a pressure is applied, to thereby judge whether a foreign object is present in the detection area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshiaki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200376946
    Abstract: A power train support structure includes a first front side frame disposed on one of left and right sides of a power train; a second front side frame disposed on the other of the left and right sides of the power train, and being greatly away from the power train with respect to the first front side frame; a mounting bracket having one of left and right ends connected to the power train; and a connecting member for connecting the mounting bracket and the second front side frame. The mounting bracket includes a front fixing portion and a rear fixing portion to be fixed to the power train. A strength of the front fixing portion and the rear fixing portion is set to such a strength that the rear fixing portion is broken by a collision load from a front side, and the front fixing portion is not broken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru KUWAHARA, Takashi HAMADA, Yuuki UCHIBA, Yuya YAMAOKA, Yusuke OKI, Masaaki KASHIMOTO, Ryuichiro AMANO, Yoshiaki NOGUCHI, Kazuki KAMIMURA
  • Patent number: 10814711
    Abstract: At least one of a pair of right and left motor unit support systems for mounting and supporting a motor unit (71) on a cross member (80) is fastened and fixed to an upper part of the motor unit (71) by a first shaft-like fastening member (a first bolt (101)). An axial direction of the first shaft-like fastening member (the first bolt (101)) is the same as a vehicle longitudinal direction in a state in which the at least one of the motor unit support systems is fastened and fixed to the upper part of the motor unit (72).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Suumen, Masaki Aoyama, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Yusuke Oki
  • Patent number: 10528040
    Abstract: A program optimization system is provided with a CNC simulator configured to sequentially read out a machining program and perform a machining simulation, a machining program storage unit configured to successively transfer the machining program to the CNC simulator, and a transfer speed control unit configured to control a transfer speed to be a predetermined lower limit value. The CNC simulator optimize the machining program when a state of buffering deficiency in which the machining program to be read out is insufficient is detected in a cutting section and create optimized machining program free from a buffering deficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190344650
    Abstract: At least one of a pair of right and left motor unit support systems for mounting and supporting a motor unit (71) on a cross member (80) is fastened and fixed to an upper part of the motor unit (71) by a first shaft-like fastening member (a first bolt (101)). An axial direction of the first shaft-like fastening member (the first bolt (101)) is the same as a vehicle longitudinal direction in a state in which the at least one of the motor unit support systems is fastened and fixed to the upper part of the motor unit (72).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki SUUMEN, Masaki AOYAMA, Yoshiaki NOGUCHI, Yusuke OKI
  • Patent number: 10358024
    Abstract: An electric-drive vehicle structure is provided, which includes a cross member bridged between side frames in a front part of a vehicle, a motor suspended below the cross member, a tray fixed to an upper surface of the cross member, and an electric unit for driving a motor, fixed onto the tray. A front edge of the electric unit is located forward of a front edge of the cross member, and the tray has a front edge located, throughout a width thereof, forward of the electric unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Yugami, Ikuo Nonaka, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Koji Jahara, Takashi Hamada, Tadasuke Abe, Kazuki Hirota
  • Publication number: 20190084397
    Abstract: An electric-drive vehicle structure is provided, which includes a cross member bridged between side frames in a front part of a vehicle, a motor suspended below the cross member, a tray fixed to an upper surface of the cross member, and an electric unit for driving a motor, fixed onto the tray. A front edge of the electric unit is located forward of a front edge of the cross member, and the tray has a front edge located, throughout a width thereof, forward of the electric unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Yugami, Ikuo Nonaka, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Koji Jahara, Takashi Hamada, Tadasuke Abe, Kazuki Hirota
  • Publication number: 20180107199
    Abstract: A program optimization system is provided with a CNC simulator configured to sequentially read out a machining program and perform a machining simulation, a machining program storage unit configured to successively transfer the machining program to the CNC simulator, and a transfer speed control unit configured to control a transfer speed to be a predetermined lower limit value. The CNC simulator optimize the machining program when a state of buffering deficiency in which the machining program to be read out is insufficient is detected in a cutting section and create optimized machining program free from a buffering deficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshiaki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9511363
    Abstract: An isolator includes a work chamber, a sterilizing substance supply unit, a gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit, a work chamber barometer, and a controller. The controller is configured to control execution of a gas flow channel leak test for checking a gas leak in a gas flow channel based on a detection result by the work chamber barometer after making the gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit increase or decrease the pressure in the gas flow channel, and is configured to control supply of the sterilizing substance by the sterilizing substance supply unit. The controller performs heating of a heater, which accompanies the supply of the sterilizing substance, in parallel with the gas flow channel leak test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yokoi, Jiro Ohnishi, Akifumi Iwama, Masaki Harada, Yoshiaki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20150190801
    Abstract: An isolator includes a work chamber, a sterilizing substance supply unit, a gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit, a work chamber barometer, and a controller. The controller is configured to control execution of a gas flow channel leak test for checking a gas leak in a gas flow channel based on a detection result by the work chamber barometer after making the gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit increase or decrease the pressure in the gas flow channel, and is configured to control supply of the sterilizing substance by the sterilizing substance supply unit. The controller performs heating of a heater, which accompanies the supply of the sterilizing substance, in parallel with the gas flow channel leak test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yokoi, Jiro Ohnishi, Akifumi Iwama, Masaki Harada, Yoshiaki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9021230
    Abstract: A storage device includes: a temporary buffer for sequentially storing data configuring a file requested to be written for every reception from outside; a data writing means for immediately separating the data in the temporary buffer into mutually corresponding data portion and marker portion classified by preset criteria and storing into a data storing means in an associated state, and deleting from the temporary buffer; an unseparated data writing means for storing the data that cannot be separated into the data portion and the marker portion among the data in the temporary buffer, into an unseparated data storing means; and a re-separation processing means for separating the data in the unseparated data storing means into the data portion and the marker portion by preset criteria and storing into the data storing means with the data portion and the marker portion associated, and deleting from the unseparated data storing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9011792
    Abstract: An isolator includes a work chamber, a sterilizing substance supply unit, a gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit, a work chamber barometer, and a controller. The controller is configured to control execution of a gas flow channel leak test for checking a gas leak in a gas flow channel based on a detection result by the work chamber barometer after making the gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit increase or decrease the pressure in the gas flow channel, and is configured to control supply of the sterilizing substance by the sterilizing substance supply unit. The controller performs heating of a heater, which accompanies the supply of the sterilizing substance, in parallel with the gas flow channel leak test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yokoi, Jiro Ohnishi, Akifumi Iwama, Masaki Harada, Yoshiaki Noguchi