Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Sugawara

Yoshihiro Sugawara 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: 11976673
    Abstract: A blower with a silencer has the blower including an axial fan including a casing, a motor attached to the casing, and a rotor having a shaft portion attached to the motor and rotated and a blade formed to protrude to an outer side of the shaft portion in a radial direction, and a silencer attached to the casing, in which the silencer includes a resonator that selectively silences a dominant sound generated by the axial fan, the silencer is disposed at a position in which at least a part of the silencer overlaps with the shaft portion, as viewed from a rotation axis direction of the rotor, and in a case in which, in a cross section perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotor, a circle around the rotation axis, which has a radius of a line connecting the rotation axis and a point of a most distal end of the blade, is defined as a rotation region, an area of the silencer in the cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis is smaller than an area of the rotation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Publication number: 20240094015
    Abstract: A route generation system includes a diagnosis unit, a generation unit, and an output unit. The diagnosis unit performs a diagnosis to estimate a deterioration degree of a road surface from an image to be monitored. The generation unit generates a travel route based on the deterioration degree of the road surface for each point diagnosed by the diagnosis unit and information regarding a road environment affecting the diagnosis for each point, the travel route being generated for capturing another image used for another diagnosis. The output unit outputs the generated travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Mizukoshi, Chisato Sugawara, Yoshihiro Nishikawa, Yuta Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240011652
    Abstract: To effectively reduce a low-frequency noise resulting from vibration of a peripheral wall of a ventilation path. The present invention provides a ventilation path with a soundproof structure including a ventilation path that includes an open end and a soundproof structure against a sound emitted from the ventilation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro ITAI
  • Patent number: 11869470
    Abstract: An acoustic system includes a duct that has a function of causing a fluid to flow therein and has a tubular shape, an internal sound source that is disposed inside the duct on an upstream side or at an outer peripheral portion of the duct, which communicates with an inside of the duct on the upstream side, or an external sound source that is on an outside from an end portion of the duct, and a membrane-shaped member that is formed as a part of a wall of the duct and vibrates in response to sound. A structure including the membrane-shaped member and a rear surface closed space thereof causes acoustic resonance to occur, transmits the acoustic resonance from the sound source into the duct, and suppresses sound radiated from the other end portion of the duct on a downstream side. The external sound source is at a distance within a wavelength at a frequency of the acoustic resonance on the outside from the end portion of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hakuta, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Akihiko Ohtsu, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Publication number: 20240003275
    Abstract: To provide an air passage type silencer and an acoustic impedance change structure of which the absorbance is high, that suppresses generation of a wind noise, and that has a high sound attenuation effect in a low-frequency band. Provided is an acoustic impedance change structure through which a sound propagates, the acoustic impedance change structure including at least in this order: a first impedance matching region that is connected to an inlet portion and in which an acoustic impedance gradually decreases; an acoustic impedance constancy region; and an outlet portion, in which Zcham<Zin and Zcham<Zout are satisfied, where Zin is an acoustic impedance in the inlet portion, Zcham is an acoustic impedance in the acoustic impedance constancy region, and Zout is an acoustic impedance in the outlet portion, and a first terminal structure acoustically connected to the acoustic impedance constancy region is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro ITAI
  • Publication number: 20230408143
    Abstract: To provide a silencing structure and a silencing system having a high sound absorbance in a low frequency region. A silencing structure that is installed in a tubular member, the silencing structure includes a cavity portion, an opening portion through which the cavity portion communicates with the tubular member, and a closing portion that closes the cavity portion at a position facing the opening portion, in which a cross-sectional area of the cavity portion on a side of the opening portion is larger than a cross-sectional area of the cavity portion on a side of the closing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shogo Yamazoe, Yuichiro Itai
  • Patent number: 11841163
    Abstract: An object is to provide a silencing system that can achieve both high ventilation performance and high soundproof performance, can silence a plurality of pieces of resonant sound, and has high general-purpose properties since the silencing system does not need to be designed according to a tubular member. The silencing system includes one or more silencers that are disposed in a tubular member provided to penetrate a wall separating two spaces, and satisfies “0<Re[Bn]<1” and “Im[Bn]>0” in a case where a standardized effective modulus of elasticity in an interior space of the tubular member in which the silencers are disposed is denoted by Bn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Patent number: 11835253
    Abstract: An object is to provide a silencing system that includes a silencer disposed in a ventilation sleeve, can suppress the generation of negative pressure in the interior, and can prevent a door or the like of an interior entrance from being difficult to open. The silencing system includes one or more silencers that are disposed in a ventilation sleeve provided to penetrate a wall separating two spaces, and “?A>10C?(0.1/P)×TL” is satisfied in a case where a gap equivalent area of the ventilation sleeve in which the silencer is installed is denoted by ?A and a normalized sound transmission loss in an octave band in which a first resonant frequency of the ventilation sleeve is present is denoted by TL. C denotes a constant determined by a measurement system in a case where there is no silencer and P denotes a transmission efficiency coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Patent number: 11795974
    Abstract: A fan, and a silencer that silences a sound generated by the fan are provided, in which the silencer has a resonance characteristic, the silencer is disposed at a position connected to a sound field space of the sound generated by the fan, and a sum of an absorbance and a reflectivity of the silencer at a resonance frequency is 10% to 43% and a standardized half-width of the silencer is more than 0.05 and 0.25 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Akihiko Ohtsu
  • Patent number: 11682374
    Abstract: A soundproof structure body includes a first tube structure and a second tube structure connected to the first tube structure and having a cross-sectional area different from the first tube structure, in which a structure body having a cross-sectional area smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first tube structure is installed in the first tube structure, and a transmission loss in a case where the structure body is installed in the first tube structure with respect to a case where the structure body is not installed in the first tube structure is positive at two frequencies adjacent to each other and difficult to generate an air column resonance mode in the first tube structure. This soundproof structure body generates a soundproof effect even at frequencies other than air column resonance of a tube structure such as a duct or a muffler, has a small size, and can obtain a high transmission loss in a wide-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohtsu, Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe, Yoshihiro Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11636839
    Abstract: Provided is a soundproof structure body including an opening member that forms an opening tube line having a cross-sectional area S, and at least two resonance structures for sound waves that are installed inside the opening tube line, and in a case where a cross-sectional area of the resonance structure is defined as Si, a width thereof is defined as di, an interval between the two resonance structures is defined as L, an impedance of the two resonance structures is defined as Zi, and a synthetic acoustic impedance is defined as Zc, a condition of Expression (1) is satisfied at a resonance frequency f0 at which a theoretical absorption value At is a maximum value. This soundproof structure body can realize high absorption using a plurality of resonance structures. At(f0, L, S, Si, di, Zi)>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohtsu, Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11536411
    Abstract: Provided is a silencing tubular structure body that has high strength and can be disposed in a narrow space. A tubular member including a tubular portion having a tubular shape, and a frame portion having at least a part formed integrally with an inner peripheral surface side of the tubular portion; and a lid member that is exchangeably disposed on an opening surface of the frame portion of the tubular member are included, in which the frame portion and the lid member form a resonant silencing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hakuta, Shogo Yamazoe, Akihiko Ohtsu, Yoshihiro Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20220389938
    Abstract: An axial fan that includes a casing having an inner space that penetrates in one direction, and a rotor blade disposed in the inner space of the casing, and a silencer that is disposed at a position connected to the inner space of the axial fan are provided, in which the axial fan has a sound pressure distribution having a position at which a sound pressure is high and a position at which the sound pressure is low in a circumferential direction in the inner space during driving, and the silencer is disposed at the position of the axial fan in the circumferential direction at which the sound pressure is high and is not disposed at the position at which the sound pressure is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU
  • Publication number: 20220389939
    Abstract: A fan, and a silencer that silences a sound generated by the fan are provided, in which the silencer has a resonance characteristic, the silencer is disposed at a position connected to a sound field space of the sound generated by the fan, and a sum of an absorbance and a reflectivity of the silencer at a resonance frequency is 10% to 43% and a standardized half-width of the silencer is more than 0.05 and 0.25 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU
  • Publication number: 20220357075
    Abstract: A silencing device and an air supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention include a resonance silencer provided at a position connected to a space in which the sound source is located within the air supply system in order to silence the noise generated from the sound source in the housing, in which in a case where a resonance wavelength of the resonance silencer alone is denoted by ?, a distance by which the resonance silencer is separated from the sound source is less than ?/2. A fundamental resonance frequency of the resonance silencer is equal to or less than an acoustic upper limit frequency determined according to a size of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU
  • Patent number: 11493232
    Abstract: An object is to provide a silencing system that can achieve both high ventilation performance and high soundproof performance, can silence a plurality of pieces of resonant sound, and has high general-purpose properties since the silencing system does not need to be designed according to a tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu
  • Publication number: 20220010813
    Abstract: A blower with a silencer has the blower including an axial fan including a casing, a motor attached to the casing, and a rotor having a shaft portion attached to the motor and rotated and a blade formed to protrude to an outer side of the shaft portion in a radial direction, and a silencer attached to the casing, in which the silencer includes a resonator that selectively silences a dominant sound generated by the axial fan, the silencer is disposed at a position in which at least a part of the silencer overlaps with the shaft portion, as viewed from a rotation axis direction of the rotor, and in a case in which, in a cross section perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotor, a circle around the rotation axis, which has a radius of a line connecting the rotation axis and a point of a most distal end of the blade, is defined as a rotation region, an area of the silencer in the cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis is smaller than an area of the rotation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shinya HAKUTA, Akihiko OHTSU, Shogo YAMAZOE
  • Publication number: 20210233505
    Abstract: An acoustic system includes a duct that has a function of causing a fluid to flow therein and has a tubular shape, an internal sound source that is disposed inside the duct on an upstream side or at an outer peripheral portion of the duct, which communicates with an inside of the duct on the upstream side, or an external sound source that is on an outside from an end portion of the duct, and a membrane-shaped member that is formed as a part of a wall of the duct and vibrates in response to sound. A structure including the membrane-shaped member and a rear surface closed space thereof causes acoustic resonance to occur, transmits the acoustic resonance from the sound source into the duct, and suppresses sound radiated from the other end portion of the duct on a downstream side. The external sound source is at a distance within a wavelength at a frequency of the acoustic resonance on the outside from the end portion of the duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Akihiko OHTSU, Shogo YAMAZOE
  • Publication number: 20210233506
    Abstract: In a soundproof structure body including a tubular tube body having an opening portion, and a resonance type soundproof structure, in which a phase difference ?, at an upstream of the resonance type soundproof structure, between a reflected wave in the resonance type soundproof structure and a reflected wave of a transmitted wave transmitted through the resonance type soundproof structure and reflected by the opening portion satisfies Inequation |???|??/3 with respect to a resonance frequency of the resonance type soundproof structure. This soundproof structure body can effectively offset a reflected wave from a resonance type soundproof structure body by opening end reflection by appropriately specifying positions of the resonance type soundproof structure and the opening end portion of a duct, a tube line, or the like to improve an absorbance of a single resonance type soundproof structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko OHTSU, Shinya HAKUTA, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shogo YAMAZOE
  • Publication number: 20210233507
    Abstract: Provided is a soundproof system having high sound silencing performance at a specific frequency while ensuring ventilation property. A soundproof system that silences a sound generated from a sound source which is disposed in a ventilation member having a ventilation passage, in which the sound generated from the sound source is at least one dominant sound of which a sound pressure at a specific frequency is a maximum value, at least a part of a high impedance space in which an acoustic impedance is higher than an average value of an acoustic impedance of the ventilation passage exists within a distance of ±0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Shinya HAKUTA, Akihiko OHTSU