Patents Assigned to Futaba Corporation
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Publication number: 20220352918Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventor: Hideo KITAZAWA
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Patent number: 11474655Abstract: A touch panel device includes a plurality of transmission electrodes and a plurality of reception electrodes disposed in a sensing region on a substrate, the transmission electrodes and the reception electrodes forming a sensor cell, wherein the sensing region has a non-rectangle shape, a plurality of the sensor cells is arranged in the sensing region in a row direction and in a column direction, and each sensor cell has a region shape according to a shape of the sensing region such that number of the sensor cells in respective rows is the same and number of the sensor cells in respective columns is the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Toshimitsu Fuyuki, Yuichi Tabata, Akio Miyajima
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Publication number: 20220291022Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicants: Futaba CorporationInventor: Shiro SHIMAHARA
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Patent number: 11415746Abstract: A sensor installed into a mold including a cable insertion member having a fixing portion with a fitting recess is provided. The sensor includes an optical fiber a part of which is bendable, and a fiber holder having a fiber insertion portion through which the optical fiber is inserted and a to-be-fixed portion extending from the fiber insertion portion. Further, the to-be-fixed portion is fixed to the fixing portion while being fitted to the fitting recess.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Sekiguchi, Yasuo Ishiwata
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Publication number: 20220252430Abstract: There is provided a resolver comprising: a main body including an excitation coil to which an excitation signal is input and a detection coil configured to output a detection signal, wherein one of the excitation coil and the detection coil is provided in a fixed part and the other one thereof is provided in a rotating part; and a signal processor configured to detect a rotation angle of the rotating part on the basis of the detection signal that changes in accordance with the rotation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi URAHAMA, Kazuhiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220205813Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicants: Futaba CorporationInventor: Shiro SHIMAHARA
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Patent number: 11327481Abstract: This communication system has a transmitter and a receiver for repeatedly transmitting a frame of steering signal having a plurality of channels. The transmitter stores an identification data of a control parameter of a specific operation object in a first empty channel within one frame and stores a characteristic data of the control parameter of the specific operation object in a second empty channel to transmit along with steering data of other channels. Since the identification data and the characteristic data are transmitted at the same time along with the control data, the control parameters can be changed during steering of the operation object. Since the characteristic data and the identification data are transmitted in the same frame as a pair, when at least the one frame is received, the setting of the control parameter can be changed.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventor: Masahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11320952Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate having an operation face, a sensor part provided at a sensor face of the substrate, and a wire led out from the sensor part to the sensor face to be connected to an external connection part. The sensor part and the wire are covered by an insulation layer. A cutout is provided to the insulation layer to expose a part of the wire to which the external connection part is connected. An insulation part is provided to cover the external connection part, the insulation layer and the wire located at the cutout. The touch panel can reliably prevent static electricity generated at the operation face during panel operation from entering the sensor part via the wire and the external connection part and causing electrostatic destruction of a bridge and such of the sensor part.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Takao Kato, Shigeharu Shirahama
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Patent number: 11301086Abstract: A touch panel driving device is provided for sequentially performing a scanning of selecting a pair of transmission signal lines from N number of transmission signal lines and a pair of reception signal lines from M number of reception signal lines. The touch panel driving device includes a reception circuit for respectively receiving, from the pair of reception signal lines, reception signals whose waveforms are changed due to a capacitance change caused by a touch operation and for generating a detection value for detecting the touch operation by comparing the received reception signals, and a plurality of noise filters provided in signal paths from the M number of reception signal lines to the reception circuit for performing a filtering operation of the same filtering characteristics on each of the reception signals supplied to the reception circuit from the pair of reception signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Muguruma, Terukazu Sugimoto, Katsumi Takayama, Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11157124Abstract: A touch panel device includes: a plurality of detection regions arranged in a matrix form; and a transmission wiring element and a receiving wiring element formed for each detection region, wherein a transmission wiring arrangement region with the transmission wiring element, the plurality of detection regions, and a receiving wiring arrangement region with the receiving wiring element are formed being aligned in one direction, wherein a value calculated from a formula as follows is smaller than a target value for a coordinate position precision: AW+2*BW?TC, wherein BW is an interval width from one of the detection regions to a next of the detection regions via the receiving wiring arrangement region and the transmission wiring arrangement region in the one direction, AW is a width for the detection regions in the one direction, and TC is a touch diameter.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Tsubasa Mitsuhashi, Toshimitsu Fuyuki, Yuichi Tabata, Yuhi Taguchi
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Patent number: 11150683Abstract: A radio-control transmitter is provided which includes a trigger which has a throttle lever and a brake lever, wherein the throttle lever is capable of freely rocking with respect to a rotation shaft along an imaginary plane orthogonal to the rotation shaft and has a longitudinal direction parallel to the imaginary plane, and wherein the brake lever is integrated with the throttle lever and extends in a direction intersecting the imaginary plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventor: Hideo Kitazawa
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Patent number: 11041472Abstract: A motor driving device is provided. The motor driving device includes a driving unit configured to drive a starter motor/generator that is directly connected to an engine by a rotation shaft, by performing on/off control of switching elements in a bridge circuit for driving a motor; and a driving controller configured to control a driving operation for the starter motor/generator that is performed by the driving unit. The driving unit controls a motor driving voltage for the starter motor/generator by changing ON periods of the switching elements of the bridge circuit, and turns on predetermined switching elements of the bridge circuit at a predetermined timing to perform an active freewheel operation for boosting a regenerative voltage generated by the starter motor/generator. The driving controller instructs the driving unit to control the motor driving voltage and on/off of the active freewheel operation, based on a battery voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignees: FUTABA CORPORATION, O.S. ENGINES MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Motoi Nakajima
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Patent number: 10979047Abstract: A touch panel switch device includes a display panel, a touch panel placed correspondingly to the display panel, a storage part and a control part. The storage part stores switch image information according to respective operation functions, code information according to the respective operation functions and placement information for display designating placement of switch images to be displayed on the display panel. The control part is configured to make the display panel display the switch images according to the switch image information and the placement information for display, and, in accordance with a touch operation onto the touch panel, read out from the storage part the code information corresponding to the switch image displayed at a location of the touch operation, perform output control of the code information, and also perform a rewrite process of the placement information for display based on received information.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Masaru Yokoyama, Yasuo Ono, Yosuke Kanno
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Patent number: 10840790Abstract: A vibration power generator includes a coil attached to a frame and a moving body that is supported on the frame through a spring and has a magnet facing the coil, and relatively moves the moving body with respect to the coil to generate electric power. The moving body has the magnet, a yoke material that is attached to the magnet and forms a magnetic circuit, and a weight member. Average specific gravity of the moving body is 8 g/cm3 or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Shotaro Kudo
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Patent number: 10823902Abstract: A print head includes a light guide portion including a light blocking part having a lattice shape, and a plurality of light guide paths defined by the light blocking part, and a light emitting element array in which a plurality of organic EL elements emitting light incident to each light guide path are arranged. In the print head, the plurality of light guide paths of the light guide portion are designed to have an identical width of 30 ?m or less, and thus it is possible to reduce exposure unevenness which is one of exposure characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoya Sato
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Patent number: 10725594Abstract: A touch panel includes a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a base film stretched by heat, an electrode portion, which is made of a mixture of a conductive material and a thermoplastic resin and is formed on at least one surface of the base film, and a stretching supporting layer made of a thermoplastic resin to cover the electrode portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Tsubasa Mitsuhashi, Masashi Miyagawa, Kiyoyuki Deguchi, Tomohiro Ishii, Yasuyuki Naito
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Patent number: 10691120Abstract: This communication system has a transmitter and a receiver for repeatedly transmitting a frame of steering signal having a plurality of channels. The transmitter stores an identification data of a control parameter of a specific operation object in a first empty channel within one frame and stores a characteristic data of the control parameter of the specific operation object in a second empty channel to transmit along with steering data of other channels. Since the identification data and the characteristic data are transmitted at the same time along with the control data, the control parameters can be changed during steering of the operation object. Since the characteristic data and the identification data are transmitted in the same frame as a pair, when at least the one frame is received, the setting of the control parameter can be changed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventor: Masahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 10636289Abstract: A switch mechanism arranged on a slanted inner peripheral face of a recessed portion formed on a back side of a housing and capable of providing good click feeling is provided. The rotatably-arranged switch mechanism is provided on the slanted inner peripheral face of the recessed portion formed on the back case on back side of a display part, and includes a push part arranged on one end of a knob body arranged rotatable around a shaft to be pushed by a user's finger, and a transmission part located at another end of the knob body to transmit rotation force generated by pushing the push part to a push switch. When the push part is pushed by the finger during control, the knob body rotates around the shaft and transmits rotational force to an actuation piece of the push switch via the transmission part, thereby pushing the push switch.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventor: Hideo Kitazawa
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Patent number: D926132Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hideo Kitazawa, Makoto Migita
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Patent number: D931951Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Takahiro Isono, Makoto Migita