Patents Assigned to Futaba Corporation
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Patent number: 12654759Abstract: A control device for a model car includes: a rotation sensor configured to detect a rotation number of a first wheel and a rotation number of a second wheel of a model car; and a controller configured to perform driving control of a driving source of the model car such that a rotation number difference between the first wheel and the second wheel is reduced when the rotation number difference is greater than or equal to a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Yukihiro Dobashi
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Patent number: 12598138Abstract: There is a communication method for a communication device including: a communication control portion configured to perform communication control; a transmission portion configured to transmit a message packet; and a reception portion configured to receive the message packet, the communication method comprising: transmitting a simple message packet in which information of at least part of third information is omitted among first information indicating a type of processing to be executed by a target device identified as a transmission destination device for the message packet, second information for specifying the target device, and the third information indicating details of the processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Yusuke Il, Yusuke Seki, Tomohiro Komiyama, Daichi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12572158Abstract: Provided is a reception device comprising: a reception part configured to receive the control signal from a transmission device; and a controller configured to performs a process of outputting a motor driving instruction value corresponding to the control signal received by the reception part as a motor driving instruction value for controlling a driving amount of a motor, wherein the controller performs: a hold process for holding and outputting a value corresponding to the control signal during a reception period as the motor driving instruction value when the control signal is not receivable; and a failsafe gradual change process for gradually changing the motor driving instruction value from the value during the hold process toward a failsafe value determined for failsafe when a period of the hold process reaches a certain period.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2024Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventor: Masahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20260009680Abstract: A temperature sensor used in a molding machine includes: a tubular fiber probe into which an optical fiber is threaded; an outer casing having a shaft into which the fiber probe is inserted; a protective window that is located on a distal end side of the fiber probe and is formed of glass; and a spacer that is disposed between the fiber probe and the protective window and has a space section both sides of which are in contact with the fiber probe and the protective window. The space section has a transmission hole formed to serve as a path leading infrared light to the optical fiber, and a diameter of the transmission hole is equal to or greater than an outer diameter of the optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: January 8, 2026Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventor: Takashi INOUE
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Publication number: 20250369781Abstract: An optical temperature sensor includes a cylindrical fiber probe into which an optical fiber is threaded, and a protective window that is formed of sapphire and positioned on the distal end side of the fiber probe. The surface of the protective window opposite to the optical fiber in the axial direction of the fiber probe is formed as a first surface, the surface of the protective window facing the optical fiber is formed as a second surface, and the first surface is an a-face of the sapphire.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2025Publication date: December 4, 2025Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventors: Ryosuke INADOME, Takashi INOUE, Yutaka KAYANO
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Patent number: 12294402Abstract: A radio control transmitter comprising a grip portion gripped by an operator at the time of performing remote control of a control target, a base portion disposed at one end of the grip portion, and a head portion disposed at the other end of the grip portion and having an operating unit configured to control the control target, and configured to transmit a control signal to the control target in response to an operation of the operating unit is described herein. The head portion includes a fitting hole in which a plurality of round holes are continuously arranged in a width direction of the head portion is formed at a bottom portion of a housing of the head portion, and a horizontal angle of the trigger centered on a holding position of the base end is changed in a stepwise manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Kitazawa
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Patent number: 12172094Abstract: A steering mechanism of a model vehicle which improves steering control accuracy is provided. The steering mechanism of the model vehicle includes the servo motor for steering configured to rotationally drive a steerable wheel of a model vehicle in a steering angle direction, the servo motor for steering being positioned between arm parts and the steerable wheel, the arm parts extending from a vehicle body side of the model vehicle to the steerable wheel. The servo motor for steering includes an output shaft parallel to a steering rotation axis of the steerable wheel and is configured to rotationally drive the steerable wheel by the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Yuki Miyama, Yukihiro Dobashi
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Patent number: 12140424Abstract: Excitation windings 2X, 2Y and a detection winding configured in a multipolar mode are disposed coaxially with a fixed body, a plurality of sets (M1, M2) of intermediate rotating windings M1 . . . configured by a pair of winding portions Mx1, My1 . . . configured by the multipolar mode and with predetermined electrical phases D made different are disposed coaxially with a rotating body, and the winding portions in the same phase (Mx1 and Mx2, My1 and My2) of the plural sets of the intermediate rotating windings M1, M2 are connected so as to form closed circuits H . . . , respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Shiro Shimahara
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Patent number: 12109507Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to eliminate unnatural behaviors of a wireless controlled airplane during PID control. In a wireless controlled airplane, a receiving section receives a first operation signal for a first actuator, a second operation signal for a second actuator, and a third operation signal for a third actuator, wherein the first, second and third operation signals are provided as operation signals wirelessly transmitted. A first actuator control section is configured to generate an actuation signal for the first actuator by means of PID control depending on the first operation signal, and to reduce an integral element in the PID control depending on an operation value for the second or third operation signal. Alternatively, the first actuator control section is configured to perform switching to a control without an integral element from the PID control.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventor: Masahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240332638Abstract: A housing container includes a plurality of exterior walls, the plurality of exterior walls forming an internal space for housing a content. A part or a whole of the plurality of exterior walls has a pressure adjusting portion formed therein. The pressure adjusting portion includes a pressure plate that is elastically deformable according to a volume change in the internal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicants: Futaba Corporation, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadao SUZUKI, Tomoki ARIHARA, Wataru SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 12098910Abstract: A wireless detonation system (1) includes a blasting operation device (40), a detonator (10), and a relay device (30). The blasting operation device (40) is disposed at a distance from a blasting face (71) and wirelessly transmits a first downstream signal at a first frequency. The detonator (10) is loaded in a blast hole (72) in the blasting face (71), and has a receiving coil (12) for wirelessly receiving a second downstream signal at a second frequency lower than the first frequency. A relay device (30) includes a first transmitting-receiving antenna (35) that wirelessly receives the first downstream signal, a relay processor (32) that wirelessly receives the first downstream signal and processes it into the second downstream signal to be wirelessly transmitted at the second frequency, and a second transmitting-receiving antenna (37) that transmits the second downstream signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignees: NOF Corporation, Futaba CorporationInventors: Kohki Uchida, Naoto Yanagi, Toshiyuki Ogura, Kohichi Shimazaki, Kazuhito Watanabe, Takafumi Komoda
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Patent number: 11965786Abstract: There is provided a capacitive pressure sensor comprising: a dielectric layer; a first electrode disposed on a first surface of the dielectric layer and to which a pressure is applied; a second electrode disposed on a second surface of the dielectric layer opposite to the first surface and including a plurality of unit electrodes having a predetermined shape; and a measuring device configured to detect a measurement value of a capacitance of the dielectric layer for each unit electrode by causing a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Ide, Yuhi Taguchi
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Patent number: 11887470Abstract: There is provided a radio control transmitter comprising: a grip portion gripped by an operator at the time of performing remote control of a control target; a base portion disposed at one end of the grip portion; a head portion disposed at the other end of the grip portion and having an operating member configured to control the control target, wherein the radio control transmitter is configured to transmit a control signal to the control target in response to an operation of the operating member; and a switch mechanism including an operating member provided as a part of a surface of the base portion and at least one switch built in the base portion and configured to activate a pre-assigned function when the operating member is pressed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Kitazawa
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Patent number: 11874141Abstract: A resolver for detecting the displacement amount of a passive body is provided with an excitation winding or a detection winding. The detection is based on a detection signal outputted from the detection winding as a result of an excitation signal inputted to the excitation winding. The excitation winding and/or the detection winding are composed of a combination of one or more sheet coils having one or more bore portions. The sheet coils are arranged at prescribed intervals in the lengthwise direction of a magnetic core to which the sheet coils are attached. A plurality of coil-storing grooves formed in a direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction are provided in the core surface of the magnetic core. The coil portions of at least two portions of the respective sheet coils are accommodated in the coil-storing grooves.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: SHIRO SHIMAHARA, FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Shiro Shimahara
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Patent number: 11828626Abstract: Sheet coils formed in a ring shape to constitute excitation windings and detection winding, and magnetic cores attached to the sheet coils are provided with coil portions of the same coil pattern constituted by a multipole type on the front and back surfaces of sheet coils constituting at least one winding of the excitation windings and detection winding, and the electrical phase of one coil portion in each coil portion is made 180° different from the electrical phase of the other coil portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Shiro Shimahara
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Patent number: 11774985Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to achieve a roll flight of a wireless controlled airplane with a simple control operation. An arithmetic processing device according to the present invention includes an arithmetic section configured to calculate control amounts for correcting a change amount around a pitch axis and a change amount around a yaw axis for a wireless controlled airplane depending on a change amount for a roll axis for the wireless controlled airplane.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Nicholas Edward Maxwell
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Patent number: 11742887Abstract: A radio control transmitter, comprising a grip portion gripped by an operator when performing remote control of a control target, a base portion disposed at one end of the grip portion, and a head portion disposed at the other end of the grip portion and having an operating member for controlling the control target, transmits a control signal to the control target in response to an operation of the operating member including a wheel that controls a traveling direction of the control target. The radio control transmitter further comprises a switch mechanism including an operating lever, to which the wheel is detachably attached, disposed at an outer peripheral portion of the switch operating member attached to a main body fitting portion of the head portion, and a switch disposed in the switch operating member to activate a pre-assigned function when the operating lever is pulled toward an axially outer side of a rotation shaft of the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Kitazawa
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Patent number: 11733799Abstract: There is provided a sensing method of a touch panel driving device configured to perform scanning of sequentially selecting a pair of adjacent transmission signal lines and a pair of adjacent reception signal lines on a touch panel and select between a first mode and a second mode having higher sensitivity than the first mode as reception signal sensitivity of a pair of reception signal lines, comprising: a first sequence of performing the scanning in setting of the second mode to select the first mode or the second mode; and a second sequence of performing the scanning in the setting state of the mode selected in the first sequence to perform touch detection and generating information indicating a touched position.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Fujii
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Patent number: D995656Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita
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Patent number: D1096994Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita