Patents by Inventor Akihiro Ando

Akihiro Ando has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250014846
    Abstract: A trigger switch capable of suppressing wear of a sliding electrode part and a device including the trigger switch are provided. A trigger switch includes a front sub-brush and a rear sub-brush that, when a drive part is driven by a movement of a trigger caused by a push-in operation to the trigger, move from an on-position where they contact a front sub-electrode and a rear sub-electrode on a substrate to an off-position where they do not contact the front sub-electrode and the rear sub-electrode. As the front sub-brush and the rear sub-brush move from the on-position to the off-position, a contact between the front sub-brush and the rear sub-brush and the substrate are released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei SUGIYAMA, Kazushi MAETA, Yohei TSUKANAKA, Akihiro ISHII, Daiki ANDO, Takumi FUJIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240402082
    Abstract: An optical sensor chip includes a spot-size conversion unit to receive a first optical signal from outside, a changer unit to change the first optical signal depending on a state of a specimen, a spot-size conversion unit to output the first optical signal to the outside, a spot-size conversion unit to receive a second optical signal from the outside, a multiplexer unit to multiplex a first optical signal changed by the changer unit depending on the state of the specimen and the second optical signal, and a spot-size conversion unit to output an optical signal multiplexed by the multiplexer unit to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro FUJIE, Hiroshi OTSUKA, Masayuki BABA, Toshiyuki ANDO, Hitomi ONO, Yuta TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240385118
    Abstract: An optical sensor sheet includes a plurality of optical sensor chips to change a characteristic of an input optical signal depending on a state of a specimen and to output an optical signal with a changed characteristic, an optical path to propagate an optical signal input to and output from the plurality of optical sensor chips, and a sheet member including the plurality of optical sensor chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro FUJIE, Hiroshi OTSUKA, Hitomi ONO, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20240383142
    Abstract: A robot system includes: a first link that is a part of a robotic arm; a first motor that moves according to a rotation of the first link; a first sensor having a fixed location with respect to the first motor; and a memory configured to store first position information indicating a relative position of the first sensor with respect to a first reference position of the first motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Shingo ANDO, Masaru ADACHI, Keita SHIMAMOTO, Jiro MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240380088
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-reciprocal circuit characterized in that the non-reciprocal circuit includes: a non-reciprocal circuit element having a magnetic substrate, a ground conductor, a central conductor, input and output terminals, a ground conductor, through holes, a permanent magnet, and a permanent magnet; and a dielectric substrate having input and output terminals, a ground conductor, a ground conductor removal portion, and solder connection portions, the ground conductor removal portion is disposed at a position at which the ground conductor removal portion faces the permanent magnet, on the dielectric substrate, and the permanent magnet has a thickness thinner than the heights of the solder connection portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi OSHIMA, Yuta SUGIYAMA, Akihiro ANDO
  • Patent number: 12062495
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chip component including a terminal electrode, a case having an accommodation recess accommodating the chip component, a conductive terminal attached to the case and connected to the terminal electrode, and a case cover disposed on an opening-edge surface of the case so as to cover the accommodation recess. The opening-edge surface has an opening-edge recess at least partly covered by the case cover. The opening-edge recess and the case cover have a space therebetween. The space is filled with a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Masuda, Takaaki Sato, Norihisa Ando, Shinya Ito, Kosuke Yazawa
  • Publication number: 20240263887
    Abstract: A boiling cooler includes a boiling part including an accommodation space to accommodate a refrigerant, a refrigerant gas outlet, and a refrigerant liquid inlet, and a condensing part including a refrigerant passage and an external passage. The boiling part includes a first wall to which a heating element is mounted, a second wall facing the first wall via the accommodation space and adjacent to the external passage, and a heat conductive portion to connect the first wall to the second wall through the accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro TANABE, Kiyoaki Yamanaka, Kenji Ando
  • Patent number: 12044239
    Abstract: A storage unit is configured to store a drive electric current of a submersible pump detected by an electric current detection unit. An identification unit is configured to calculate at least one electric current parameter of a plurality of electric current parameter based on the temporal change of the drive electric current and identify an operation state indicating whether there is an abnormality in the submersible pump and a type of an abnormal operation, based on the electric current parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Shimizu, Akihiro Ando, Shiro Fukami, Shogo Ueda, Hideyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20220376458
    Abstract: A decrease of an output of a wavelength converted light converted by a nonlinear optical crystal is suppressed. A light source apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a fundamental wave light source configured to generate a fundamental wave which is a continuous oscillation laser beam, an external cavity including a plurality of optical mirrors, a nonlinear optical crystal installed inside the external cavity and configured to generate a light with a wavelength shorter than that of the fundamental wave. The light source apparatus includes at least one phase modulator disposed between the fundamental wave light source and the external cavity and configured to modulate the fundamental wave by a modulation frequency of an integer multiple of a resonance frequency interval of the external cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jun SAKUMA, Akihiro ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220268284
    Abstract: A storage unit is configured to store a drive electric current of a submersible pump detected by an electric current detection unit. An identification unit is configured to calculate at least one electric current parameter of a plurality of electric current parameter based on the temporal change of the drive electric current and identify an operation state indicating whether there is an abnormality in the submersible pump and a type of an abnormal operation, based on the electric current parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromasa SHIMIZU, Akihiro ANDO, Shiro FUKAMI, Shogo UEDA, Hideyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 10761400
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus and a wavelength conversion method that can stably output wavelength converted light for a long time are provided. A wavelength conversion apparatus 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a casing 10, a wavelength conversion element 25 disposed inside the casing 10 and configured to convert a wavelength of incident light and output light with the converted wavelength, a first port 11 that introduces a first gas containing 99.9% or more of a nitrogen gas inside the casing 10, and a second port 12 that introduces a second gas containing 1% or more of an oxygen gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LASERTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ando, Jun Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20200089079
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus and a wavelength conversion method that can stably output wavelength converted light for a long time are provided. A wavelength conversion apparatus 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a casing 10, a wavelength conversion element 25 disposed inside the casing 10 and configured to convert a wavelength of incident light and output light with the converted wavelength, a first port 11 that introduces a first gas containing 99.9% or more of a nitrogen gas inside the casing 10, and a second port 12 that introduces a second gas containing 1% or more of an oxygen gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro ANDO, Jun SAKUMA
  • Publication number: 20190282910
    Abstract: VR amusement ride device that enables a user viewing virtual reality images to enjoy the feeling of riding a horse or vehicle by having the user ride a machine at the same time as viewing images, thereby preventing VR motion sickness. The VR amusement ride device includes VR image viewer, image processor, seat structure, and seat structure controller. The seat structure includes a saddle, a base, and a tilt angle adjuster, and the saddle rocks continuously or intermittently about a central axis. The image processor records/stores VR image data and event data in memory, transmits the VR image data to the VR image viewer and transmits event information based on the event data to the seat structure controller. The seat structure controller varies tilt angle of the rocking central axis of the saddle to forward tilt, backward tilt, right tilt, and left tilt on the basis of the event information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: AKIHIRO ANDO
  • Patent number: 10053435
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a furoxan compound having a fluorine atom as a substituent group on the ring structure thereof; and a novel nitric oxide donor including the compound. The present invention relates to a fluorofuroxan compound represented by general formula (1) or (2). The compound of formula (1) can be manufactured by reacting a fluoride salt with a nitrofuroxan compound to substitute the nitro group with a fluoro group. The compound of formula (2) can be manufactured by subjecting the compounds of formula (1) to isomerization by irradiation with light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Akihiro Ando, Masahiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9972977
    Abstract: A spark plug 5 for an internal combustion engine includes a center electrode 1, an insulator 2, and a housing 3. The insulator 2 includes a distal end side exposed part and an insulator enlarged diameter part 21. The housing 3 includes a lateral electrode 32, an engaging part 33, and a crimping portion 35. A buffer member 4 that restrains the distal end side exposed part 20 by pressing a part of the distal end side exposed part 20 toward the center and a part of the inner peripheral surface of the lateral electrode 32 in a radial direction at a distal end side of the engaging part 33 is disposed at a base end side of the gas pocket 230.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aki Miyawaki, Atsushi Honda, Syoichi Takemoto, Akihiro Ando, Takanobu Aochi, Masamichi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20180009771
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a furoxan compound having a fluorine atom as a substituent group on the ring structure thereof; and a novel nitric oxide donor including the compound. The present invention relates to a fluorofuroxan compound represented by general formula (1) or (2). The compound of formula (1) can be manufactured by reacting a fluoride salt with a nitrofuroxan compound to substitute the nitro group with a fluoro group. The compound of formula (2) can be manufactured by subjecting the compounds of formula (1) to isomerization by irradiation with light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Akihiro Ando, Masahiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9761922
    Abstract: Input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c are formed within portions of cutouts 5a, 5b and 5c provided in a ground conductor 5 on the underside of a magnetic material 3; signal conductors 9a, 9b and 9c are formed within portions of cutouts 8a, 8b and 8c provided in a ground conductor 8 on the top surface of a dielectric substrate 7 at the same places as the cutouts 5a, 5b and 5c of the ground conductor; through holes 10a, 10b and 10c electrically connect a center conductor 4 to the input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c; metal bumps 11a, 11b and 11c electrically connect the input/output terminals 6a, 6b and 6c to the signal conductors 9a, 9b and 9c facing each other; and metal bumps 16 electrically connect the ground conductor 5 to the ground conductor 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tetsu Owada, Akihiro Ando, Hironobu Shibata
  • Publication number: 20170194769
    Abstract: A spark plug 5 for an internal combustion engine includes a center electrode 1, an insulator 2, and a housing 3. The insulator 2 includes a distal end side exposed part and an insulator enlarged diameter part 21. The housing 3 includes a lateral electrode 32, an engaging part 33, and a crimping portion 35. A buffer member 4 that restrains the distal end side exposed part 20 by pressing a part of the distal end side exposed part 20 toward the center and a part of the inner peripheral surface of the lateral electrode 32 in a radial direction at a distal end side of the engaging part 33 is disposed at a base end side of the gas pocket 230.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Aki MIYAWAKI, Atsushi HONDA, Syoichi TAKEMOTO, Akihiro ANDO, Takanobu AOCHI, Masamichi SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 9623467
    Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a locking ridge for a case of forming the locking ridge on an outer peripheral surface of a joint portion by form rolling, the method realizing a joint portion structure which is superior in pipe detachment prevention performance when pipes with locking ridges are connected by fixing pipe ends with a housing. Using a convex roller arranged inside the workpiece pipe body and a forming circular groove arranged outside the pipe body, the locking ridge is form-rolled such that an upright wall portion thereof is raised at an angle of at least 65° and no greater than 90° with respect to the outer peripheral surface in the pipe axis direction, and that a height of the locking ridge from the outer peripheral surface to the apex of the tip portion is at least a total of curvature radii of faces of the processing means in contact with the pipe body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Nishijima, Katsuhide Nishio, Akihiro Ando, Kouki Tomimura
  • Publication number: 20160288187
    Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a locking ridge for a case of forming the locking ridge on an outer peripheral surface of a joint portion by form rolling, the method realizing a joint portion structure which is superior in pipe detachment prevention performance when pipes with locking ridges are connected by fixing pipe ends with a housing. Using a convex roller arranged inside the workpiece pipe body and a forming circular groove arranged outside the pipe body, the locking ridge is form-rolled such that an upright wall portion thereof is raised at an angle of at least 65° and no greater than 90° with respect to the outer peripheral surface in the pipe axis direction, and that a height of the locking ridge from the outer peripheral surface to the apex of the tip portion is at least a total of curvature radii of faces of the processing means in contact with the pipe body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Shinnosuke NISHIJIMA, Katsuhide NISHIO, Akihiro ANDO, Kouki TOMIMURA