Patents Assigned to Futaba Corporation
  • Patent number: 9184017
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluorescent display tube with a touch switch allowing electrodes such as touch electrode, anode electrode, and wirings thereof to be formed on the same substrate at the same time, and having an easy structure, and to provide a method of forming the electrodes and wirings of the fluorescent display tube. The anode electrodes, the touch electrodes, the shield electrode, and the anode wirings are formed on the front substrate. The shield electrode is formed in between the touch electrodes and the anode electrodes, and in between the touch electrodes and the anode wirings. The shield electrode is made of a continuous single conductive film. The touch electrodes are so formed as to surround the corresponding one of the anode electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsushi Tokura, Ping Ning Chiu, Ming Chun Wang, Pou Tsen Wang, Hung Bin Lin
  • Patent number: 9180903
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steering communication system being able to individually obtain a telemetry data from a steered-object communication devices mounted on the steered-object. An arbitrary identification number assigned to a plurality of steered-object communication devices mounted on a steered-object at the time of pairing-setup is associated with the equipment ID of a pairing object. When performing transmission request of a telemetry data, a steering signal adding the transmission request information and the own identification number is transmitted. The steered-object communication device judges signal classification of the inputted control signal. When the steering signal adding transmission request information and the own identification number is inputted, the steered-object communication device transmits a telemetry data signal adding the telemetry data as an answer signal to a steering communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Koike, Masahiro Saegusa, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9165459
    Abstract: A transmitter for controlling a target to be controlled having a motor, the transmitter includes: a start-up manipulation member to control starting and stopping of the motor; a rotational speed control manipulation member to control a rotational speed of the motor according to an operation amount; a control unit to generate the steering signal such that the motor is rotated according to the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member when the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member is equal to or greater than a preset start position while the start-up manipulation member is in a start-up state; and a transmitting unit to transmit the steering signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9063526
    Abstract: A radio control device for one or more target objects to be controlled includes an manipulation unit, configured to control the target objects; a storage unit which stores model data corresponding to the target objects, the model data being used to control the target objects; a controller which uses the model data stored in the storage unit to control the target objects through manipulation of the manipulation unit; and a camera module which acquires specific data for specifying the target objects. The controller stores the specific data of the target objects acquired by the camera module and the model data of the target objects related to the specific data in the storage unit in association therebetween such that the specific data and the model data are callable from the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Takahiro Isono, Kota Toyotomi, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9055521
    Abstract: A wireless mesh network system includes a plurality of wireless devices and is adapted to forward a message packet. Each of the wireless devices includes a transmitter, a receiver, a communications controller, and a RAM. Further, the communications controller detects a reception completion time of a message packet received, and controls such that, if the wireless device had performed forwarding the message packet received right before, a carrier sense time, which is the time from the reception completion time to the forwarding start, is set to be longer than a previously set carrier sense time, and if the corresponding wireless device had not performed forwarding the message packet received right before, the carrier sense time is set to be shorter than the previously set carrier sense time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 9035542
    Abstract: In a driving IC-incorporated fluorescent display device, a filament end-supporting member including a structure which has a short distance between a filament and an anode substrate and is not compromised to shielding effect of the driving IC is provided. An end portion of the filament is sandwiched between a tabular support which is attached to a tabular portion of a retainer plate and a ribbon, and the ribbon is fixed to the support by spot welding. The support consists of a slit. The filament is opposed to the slit and extends to longitudinal direction of the slit. The opposite side of the filament of the slit is closed by the retainer plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsushi Tokura, Ping Ning Chiu, Ming Chun Wang, Mei Hui Shu, Shang Hsu Chin
  • Patent number: 9028976
    Abstract: A highly stable organic EL material having the properties of both benzofluoranthene and anthracene structures is provided. The organic EL device has at least one organic compound layer containing a compound presented by the general formula (I) below: (in which L is a linking group linking any one of the positions 1 to 12 and any one of the positions 13 to 22; the unlinked positions 1 to 22 are substituted by any of a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and aromatic amino group; and L presents any of a single bond, substituted or unsubstituted arylene group, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, and substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ebisawa, Hajime Amano, Sumiko Kitagawa, Tetsushi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9008276
    Abstract: An X-ray tube is disclosed. The X-ray tube includes a substrate, a box-shaped case attached to the substrate and being in a high-vacuum state, an X-ray target arranged in the opening of the first substrate in the inside of the case, and a cathode arranged in the case and supplying an electron to the X-ray target. The substrate includes first and second substrates made of 426 alloy and respectively having an opening of honeycomb structure, and an X-ray transmissive window sandwiched between the first and second substrates which is made of a titanium foil and close the opening. The X-ray transmissive window is reinforced by a honeycomb structure of the substrate from both surfaces. Thus, the substrate and the X-ray transmissive window are not deformed, and strength of the package is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Matsumoto, Yoshihisa Marushima, Yuuichi Kogure, Kazuhito Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8994616
    Abstract: In a Q-tuple anode matrix vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), a plurality of selected pixels are turned on one by one to sequentially emit lights in accordance with a display signal. Each selected pixel is selected from Q anode segments to be turned on to emit lights by turning on a first and a second grid electrode positioned adjacent to each other. Each selected pixel is formed of Q/2 anode segments in total including R anode segments sequentially disposed from a position closest to the first grid electrode and facing the second grid electrode and (Q/2?R) anode segments sequentially disposed from a position closest to the second grid electrode and facing the first grid electrode, R being an integer ranging from 1 to (Q/2?1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Umetsu, Toshihiro Nishioka, Takashi Muguruma, Katsumi Takayama
  • Patent number: 8920150
    Abstract: A pin having a light guide for an injection mold includes an outer sleeve having a hollow portion, an inner sleeve fixed to the hollow portion of the outer sleeve, a bundle sleeve fixed to a hollow portion of the inner sleeve, a bundle fiber fixed to a hollow portion of the bundle sleeve. A leading end portion of the bundle sleeve has a substantially cone-shaped caulked portion. A portion of the hollow portion of the inner sleeve which is brought into contact with the cone-shaped caulked portion of the bundle sleeve has a tapered shape that coincides with the shape of the portion of the bundle sleeve. A shoulder portion is formed at a rear end portion of the hollow portion of the outer sleeve and a rear end of the inner sleeve is engage with the shoulder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Tanaka, Yasuhiro Nohara
  • Patent number: 8901808
    Abstract: The invention provides a new ultraviolet light-emitting material and ultraviolet light source in which bacteriocidal performance, operating life, and luminescence efficiency are enhanced without any risk of adversely affecting human bodies. An ultraviolet light-emitting material has a composition as represented by Formula (A): (Al1-xScx)2O3??(A) where a dopant, Sc is added to a matrix, Al2O3, and x satisfies 0<x<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Iwai, Kazuhito Nakamura, Yoshitaka Sato, Kiyoyuki Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20140299857
    Abstract: A complex compound obtained by reacting a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a polyol having an ether bond in a molecule and having 4 to 12 carbon atoms or a branch polyol having 5 to 7 carbon atoms: M(OR)n ??(1) wherein R respectively represents an alkyl group having 4 to 12 carbon atoms or an acyl group having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, M represents an aluminum atom, a titanium atom or a silicon atom, and n represents 3 or 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke HOSHINA, Satoshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140292744
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of display panels arranged adjacent to each other in a line scanning direction to form one screen; a master controller configured to drive one of the display panels; and one or more slave controllers configured to drive the other display panels, each of the slave controllers corresponding to each of the other display panels. The master controller is configured to drive the display panel based on a scanning control signal and a clock signal which are generated, and output the generated scanning control signal and the generated clock signal and each of the slave controllers is configured to drive the corresponding display panel based on the scanning control signal and the clock signal inputted from the master controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Terukazu SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8842093
    Abstract: An electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor is provided. The touch sensor includes a substrate and a grid pattern formed on a surface of the substrate by a plurality of first linear wires and a plurality of second linear wires, the first linear wires being arranged parallel to each other at a predetermined interval, and the second linear wires being arranged parallel to each other at a predetermined interval and intersecting with the first linear wires. A separation portion is provided to the first linear wires and the second linear wires to form a sensor portion and a dummy sensor portion which are located next to each other and electrically separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Magami, Yoshiaki Washio, Yoshiteru Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20140267199
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit having m scanning lines and a first and a second scanning line drive unit for respectively applying scanning signals to one ends and the other ends of the scanning lines. The first scanning line drive unit performs a forward scanning signal output to sequentially select the scanning lines, while outputting scanning signals having a first blanking period from the odd-numbered output terminals and scanning signals having a second blanking period shifted from the first blanking period, from the even-numbered output terminals, and the second scanning line drive unit performs, in synchronization with the first scanning line drive unit, a reverse scanning signal output to sequentially select the scanning lines, while outputting scanning signals having the second blanking period from the odd-numbered output terminals and scanning signals having the first blanking period from the even-numbered output terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Terukazu SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8804613
    Abstract: A wireless mesh network system having a plurality of wireless devices is adapted to forward a message packet. Each of the wireless devices includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, a communications controller, and a RAM. Further, if a message packet received is an acknowledgement signal, the communications controller controls such that an original source address, a destination address, and a packet number contained in the acknowledgement signal are stored in the RAM, and, in case the message packet received is a data signal, if information contained in the message packet received is consistent with the original source address, the destination address, and the packet number contained in the acknowledgement signal stored in the RAM, the communications controller controls such that the acknowledgement signal is forwarded to a original source wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 8779699
    Abstract: A servo device 30 includes: a control portion 31 for driving and controlling a drive mechanism 32 by receiving a control signal from a transmitter 10, and by transforming the control signal into a drive signal corresponding to characteristic data previously stored in a memory portion 35. The control portion 31 includes: a signal processing portion 33 for discriminating whether the control signal is a maneuver signal or a characteristic data signal; and the memory portion for updating and storing the characteristic data based on the received characteristic data signal when the control signal is discriminated as the characteristic data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Futaba Corporation, Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Shinya Fuji
  • Publication number: 20140153612
    Abstract: There is provided a temperature detector adapted to be provided in a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of a temperature detection target. The temperature detector includes a cylindrical fixing body made of a metal material, the cylindrical fixing body having a single through hole extending therethrough and one axial end portion serving as a fixing portion, a thermocouple having a pair of wires partially inserted into the through hole and a welding material welded to the fixing portion while being at least partially inserted into the through hole to fix the thermocouple to the fixing portion. An end of the thermocouple is exposed on a surface of the welding material by polishing the welding material together with the thermocouple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Futaba Corporation
    Inventor: Takumi YONEKURA
  • Patent number: 8729849
    Abstract: When a servo device receives the frequency setting signal as a control signal through the receiver from the transmitter, it select the information in conformity with the received frequency setting signal among the driving frequency setting information as stored in advance. When the handling signal is input as the control signal by the transmitter, the servo device is configured to transform the difference data taken synchronously with the difference data timing signal from the pulse width comparison part into the selected driving frequency. The servo device is configured to generate the driving signal from the transformed difference data signal of the desired corresponding count value range, and to perform drive control the driving feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignees: Futaba Corporation, Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140117849
    Abstract: In a driving IC-incorporated fluorescent display device, a filament end-supporting member including a structure which has a short distance between a filament and an anode substrate and is not compromised to shielding effect of the driving IC is provided. An end portion of the filament is sandwiched between a tabular support which is attached to a tabular portion of a retainer plate and a ribbon, and the ribbon is fixed to the support by spot welding. The support consists of a slit. The filament is opposed to the slit and extends to longitudinal direction of the slit. The opposite side of the filament of the slit is closed by the retainer plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: Taiwan FUTABA Electronics Corporation, Futaba Corporation
    Inventors: Katsushi Tokura, Ping Ning Chiu, Ming Chun Wang, Mei Hui Shu, Shang Hsu Chin