Patents Assigned to Futaba Corporation
  • Patent number: 12654759
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Yukihiro Dobashi
  • Patent number: 12598138
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Il, Yusuke Seki, Tomohiro Komiyama, Daichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12572158
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20260009680
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Applicant: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20250369781
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke INADOME, Takashi INOUE, Yutaka KAYANO
  • Patent number: 12294402
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 12172094
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Miyama, Yukihiro Dobashi
  • Patent number: 12140424
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shiro Shimahara
  • Patent number: 12109507
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240332638
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: Futaba Corporation, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadao SUZUKI, Tomoki ARIHARA, Wataru SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 12098910
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: NOF Corporation, Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Kohki Uchida, Naoto Yanagi, Toshiyuki Ogura, Kohichi Shimazaki, Kazuhito Watanabe, Takafumi Komoda
  • Patent number: 11965786
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ide, Yuhi Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11887470
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 11874141
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: SHIRO SHIMAHARA, FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shiro Shimahara
  • Patent number: 11828626
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shiro Shimahara
  • Patent number: 11774985
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Nicholas Edward Maxwell
  • Patent number: 11742887
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 11733799
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki Fujii
  • Patent number: D995656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita
  • Patent number: D1096994
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita