Patents by Inventor Yuhei Yamamoto
Yuhei Yamamoto 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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Publication number: 20240151506Abstract: An automatic measuring apparatus includes an inside-diameter measuring unit that measures the inside diameter of a workpiece, a robot arm part, and a control unit. The inside-diameter measuring unit is installed with the tip side facing upward. A cone-shaped guide cone is provided at the tip of the inside-diameter measuring unit. A workpiece stopper is attached to the outside of the inside-diameter measuring unit. A support surface, which serves as a placing surface on which the workpiece is placed, is supported by a spring, and the inclination and position of the support surface changes to follow a change in the posture and position of the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhei TAKATSU, Masashi YAMAJI, Yuya ARASHI, Chihiro YAMAMOTO, Shuji HAYASHIDA
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Patent number: 11560292Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of a measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner. This top surface estimation method for hoisting loads and by acquiring, using the laser scanner, data point groups in a hoisting load region which includes a hoisting load and an object from above the hoisting load and the object, dividing the hoisting load region into layers which constitute a plurality of groups which have a prescribed thickness in the vertical direction, and allocating the acquired data point groups to the plurality of layer groups, and estimating the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the object in each layer group on the basis of the data point groups allocated to the plurality of layer groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
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Patent number: 11542127Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
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Patent number: 11530119Abstract: To accurately obtain the shapes of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, and the height of the ground surface, and present an accurate warning display when the hoisting load approaches the object. A guide information display device is equipped with a data processing unit which: estimates the top surface of a hoisting load, the ground surface, and the top surface of the object, on the basis of a data point group obtained by a laser scanner; generates guide frames representing guide frames that surround the top surface of the hoisting load and the top surface of the object, and also generates height information and height information which represent the elevation of the hoisting load and the object; calculates the distance between the hoisting load and the object on the basis of the estimated top surfaces of the hoisting load and object; and outputs a warning display when the distance is equal to or less than a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
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Patent number: 11505040Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a vehicle cabin; at least one wheel disposed along one direction in the vehicle body; a seat disposed inside the vehicle cabin; a first planar member that is fixed to the vehicle body, separates the vehicle cabin from an outside of the vehicle, is disposed further toward the outside of the vehicle than the seat in the one direction, and has a first transmittance for visible light; a second planar member that is allowed to be disposed between the first planar member and the seat, and has a second transmittance for visible light that is smaller than the first transmittance; and an input device. The second planar member is disposed between the first planar member and the seat in a case where a predetermined input is performed on the input device.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nishio, Takuma Masuda, Motohiro Aoki, Yuhei Yamamoto, Naoki Usui, Satoshi Tanigawa, Takayuki Moriwaki, Takeshi Kiritoshi, Kazuhiko Kaneuchi
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Patent number: 11414305Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of the measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
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Patent number: 11270450Abstract: Provided is a method for clustering the data point groups of one or more measurement targets located in the same region from among the acquired data point groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
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Publication number: 20220017336Abstract: A ground surface estimation method include: performing first estimation in which the continuous region having a largest number of the grids among the continuous regions is estimated as a ground surface; and performing second estimation including: calculating an average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in the non-adjacent continuous region for each of the non-adjacent continuous regions; calculating an average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in the predetermined range of the continuous region estimated as the ground surface; and estimating that a non-adjacent continuous region as the ground surface when a difference between the average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in the non-adjacent continuous region and the average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in a predetermined range of the continuous region estimated as the ground surface is equal to or less than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20220003544Abstract: A ground surface estimation method includes: a continuous region recognizing step for recognizing, when a difference in altitude value between a representative point of one grid and a representative point of another adjacent grid out of the plurality of grids is equal to or less than a threshold, the one grid and the other adjacent grid as a continuous region that is a region where the one grid and the other adjacent grid are continuous; and a ground surface estimation step for estimating a continuous region having the largest number of grids among the continuous regions as a ground surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Patent number: 11084692Abstract: To accurately present information about the shape and location of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, regardless of the orientation and operational state of the crane. A guide information display device, wherein a camera images part of a work region of a crane, a laser scanner obtains a data point group of the work region captured by the camera, and a data processing unit: removes, from the obtained data point group, a data point group located between a hoisting load hanging from a crane and the tip end section of the telescopic boom of the crane; estimates, on the basis of the remaining data point group, the top surface of the hoisting load, the ground surface of the work region, and the top surfaces of objects located in the work region; generates guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the objects; and overlaps the generated guide frames on the captured image, and displays the same on a data display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
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Publication number: 20210222206Abstract: An object of the present invention is to a method for producing a functional substance utilizing a reaction requiring hydrogen, which production method is safe and efficient; and this object is achieved by a method for producing a functional substance utilizing a reaction requiring hydrogen, the method comprising: supplying the hydrogen by culturing of a hydrogen-producing microorganism.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Hiroaki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210163270Abstract: To accurately obtain the shapes of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, and the height of the ground surface, and present an accurate warning display when the hoisting load approaches the object. A guide information display device is equipped with a data processing unit which: estimates the top surface of a hoisting load, the ground surface, and the top surface of the object, on the basis of a data point group obtained by a laser scanner; generates guide frames representing guide frames that surround the top surface of the hoisting load and the top surface of the object, and also generates height information and height information which represent the elevation of the hoisting load and the object; calculates the distance between the hoisting load and the object on the basis of the estimated top surfaces of the hoisting load and object; and outputs a warning display when the distance is equal to or less than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20210147193Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of the measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20210147194Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of a measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner. This top-surface estimation method for hoisting loads and objects is provided with: a data point group acquisition step in which a laser scanner acquires data point groups in a hoisting load region which includes a hoisting load and an object from above the hoisting load and the object; a group allocation step in which a data processing unit divides the hoisting load region into layers which constitute a plurality of groups which have a prescribed thickness in the vertical direction, and allocates the acquired data point groups to the plurality of layer groups; and a top-surface estimation step in which the data processing unit estimates the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the object in each layer group on the basis of the data point groups allocated to the plurality of layer groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20200331327Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a vehicle cabin; at least one wheel disposed along one direction in the vehicle body; a seat disposed inside the vehicle cabin; a first planar member that is fixed to the vehicle body, separates the vehicle cabin from an outside of the vehicle, is disposed further toward the outside of the vehicle than the seat in the one direction, and has a first transmittance for visible light; a second planar member that is allowed to be disposed between the first planar member and the seat, and has a second transmittance for visible light that is smaller than the first transmittance; and an input device. The second planar member is disposed between the first planar member and the seat in a case where a predetermined input is performed on the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi NISHIO, Takuma MASUDA, Motohiro AOKI, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Naoki USUI, Satoshi TANIGAWA, Takayuki MORIWAKI, Takeshi KIRITOSHI, Kazuhiko KANEUCHI
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Publication number: 20200198939Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20200165107Abstract: To accurately present information about the shape and location of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, regardless of the orientation and operational state of the crane. A guide information display device, wherein a camera images part of a work region of a crane, a laser scanner obtains a data point group of the work region captured by the camera, and a data processing unit: removes, from the obtained data point group, a data point group located between a hoisting load hanging from a crane and the tip end section of the telescopic boom of the crane; estimates, on the basis of the remaining data point group, the top surface of the hoisting load, the ground surface of the work region, and the top surfaces of objects located in the work region; generates guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the objects; and overlaps the generated guide frames on the captured image, and displays the same on a data display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20200167940Abstract: Provided is a method for clustering the data point groups of one or more measurement targets located in the same region from among the acquired data point groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
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Patent number: 10106952Abstract: A work machine control system that controls a work machine including a working device having a working tool that rotates about a shaft line includes: a target construction shape generation unit that generates a target construction shape indicating a target shape of a construction target of the work machine; a target shape calculation unit that calculates a control target shape which is a target shape when controlling rotation of the working tool from the target construction shape and calculates an extended target shape obtained by extending the control target shape; and a working device control unit that controls the rotation of the working tool about the shaft line based on a distance between the working tool and the control target shape and the extended target shape.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Iwamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Yuto Fujii, Takashi Yokoo, Yoshiro Iwasaki
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Patent number: D849625Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuhei Yamamoto, Kanji Muto, Motohiro Aoki