Patents Assigned to Futaba Corporation
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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: 11707850Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to reduce the downtime which occurs when changing a servo motor device. A servo motor device includes a motor section and a reduction gear configured to output a driving force by reducing a speed of rotation of the motor section, wherein a control device includes a detecting section configured to acquire detected information about operation of the motor section, and a computing section configured to generate an approximate curve based on a behavior for a time sequence of a parameter and to calculate predicted lifetime information of the servo motor device based on the approximate curve thus generated, wherein the parameter has been calculated by means of the detected information.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: Futaba Corporation, Chiba Institute of TechnologyInventors: Shotaro Kudo, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Toru Kono, Ryosei Kuramoto, Hidetoshi Muramatsu, Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato
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Patent number: 11695437Abstract: A connecting member in a radio control transmitter for transmitting a control signal to a control target by controlling an operating portion detachably attached to a main body is provided. The connecting member is disposed between the main body and the operating portion to randomly set a position of the operating portion with respect to the main body, wherein the connecting member has outer fitting holes arranged along a circumference of a large diameter and inner fitting holes arranged along a circumference of a small diameter to be concentric with arrangement of the outer fitting holes.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Kitazawa
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Patent number: 11653482Abstract: An electronic component includes a case body, an electronic circuit, and a conductor portion. The case body is formed by fitting a first housing and a second housing. The electronic circuit board is accommodated in the case body. The conductor portion is formed to continuously extend in a circumferential direction of the electronic circuit board at a portion of the first housing where the first housing is fitted to the second housing. The conductor portion is electrically connected to a ground of the electronic circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Arai, Yusuke Ii, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20230146396Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicants: Futaba CorporationInventor: Shiro SHIMAHARA
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Patent number: 11633960Abstract: According to an embodiment, a print head includes one or more light emitting element arrays, a light emission control circuit, and one or more drive circuit arrays. The light emitting element arrays include a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed continuously along a main scanning direction. The light emission control circuit outputs drive signals of different phases in units of a light emitting element group configured by a predetermined number of continuous light emitting elements included in the light emitting elements. The drive circuit arrays include a plurality of drive circuits, the drive circuits cause the light emitting elements to emit light individually based on the drive signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Tanimoto
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Publication number: 20230095309Abstract: A temperature sensor used in a molding machine is provided. The temperature sensor comprises a cylindrical fiber probe through which an optical fiber is inserted; an outer housing having a shaft, into which the fiber probe is inserted to be displaceable in an axial direction; a protective window disposed on a tip end side of the fiber probe and configured to protect a tip end of the fiber probe; and an elastic member that presses the fiber probe toward the protective window.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventor: Takashi INOUE
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Publication number: 20230081114Abstract: A capacitive pressure sensor (1) using mutual capacitance type is provided. The capacitive pressure sensor (1) comprises a dielectric layer (2), a ground electrode (3), transmission electrodes (4), reception electrodes (5) and a controller (6). The transmission electrodes and reception electrodes have a matrix structure (FIG. 3). An electric field is generated between the transmission electrodes and the reception electrodes by the controller. When the dielectric layer is deformed by a pressure applied to the ground electrode, a capacitance of the dielectric layer changes. The controller detects the unit detection area (10) where the capacitance changes and the pressure corresponding to the change in the capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventors: Satoshi IDE, Keisuke TAKATA, Fumitaka MIYAO, Kazuki IMAJO
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Patent number: 11592840Abstract: A driving control device for a remote controlled helicopter includes an rpm detection unit that detects an rpm of a main rotor, a gyro sensor that detects angular velocities of control axes including roll, pitch and yaw axes, and a control unit that generates a control signal of a control actuator for controlling movements of the control axes based on the angular velocities detected by the gyro sensor and a steering signal sent from a transmitter. The control unit has information on the gyro sensitivities of the control axes and information on a set rpm of the main rotor which are preset for each of the flight states of the remote controlled helicopter, and corrects the gyro sensitivities based on a difference between the set rpm corresponding to a selected flight state among the flight states and an rpm of the main rotor detected by the rpm detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220404942Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventor: Masaki FUJII
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Publication number: 20220397467Abstract: A capacitive pressure sensor is provided. The capacitive pressure sensor comprises a dielectric layer, a light-transmitting first electrode, a second electrode, a display layer and a measuring device. The dielectric layer is made of a foam. The first electrode is disposed on a first surface of the dielectric layer, wherein a pressure is applied to the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on a second surface of the dielectric layer opposite to the first surface. The second electrode includes a plurality of unit electrodes having a predetermined shape. The display layer is disposed between the first electrode and the dielectric layer or between the second electrode and the dielectric layer. The measuring device is 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi IDE, Yuhi TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220397466Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventors: Satoshi IDE, Yuhi TAGUCHI
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Patent number: D983278Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita
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Patent number: D995656Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita