Patents by Inventor Akihiro Harada

Akihiro Harada 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).

  • Patent number: 12211634
    Abstract: A soft magnetic alloy or the like combines high saturated magnetic flux density, low coercive force and high magnetic permeability ??. A soft magnetic alloy having the composition formula (Fe(1?(?+?))X1?X2?)(1?(a+b+c+d+e))BaSibCcCudMe. X1 is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co and Ni, X2 is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Mn, Ag, Zn, Sn, As, Sb, Bi, N, O and rare earth elements, and M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Nb, Hf, Zr, Ta, Ti, Mo, ?? and V. 0.090?a?0.240, 0.030.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Akito Hasegawa, Kazuhiro Yoshidome, Kenji Horino, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12194861
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an actuator drive control section that controls drive of an actuator, a main motor drive control section that controls drive of a main motor, and a stagnation determination section. The stagnation determination section determines a stagnation of the actuator based on a detected value of a sensor unit that detects a physical quantity that changes according to a drive state of the actuator. When performing a meshing surface pressure reduction control for reducing a meshing surface pressure generated at the meshing point between a parking gear and a parking lever by driving the main motor, the main motor drive control section decreases a main motor torque which is a torque of the main motor based on the detected value of the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Seiji Nakayama, Shigeru Kamio
  • Publication number: 20240407642
    Abstract: An optical characteristic display device includes an aberration acquiring unit configured to acquire an intraocular aberration, a cornea aberration, and an internal aberration of a patient's eye into which an intraocular lens is inserted, a display controlling unit configured to display an optical characteristic of the patient's eye on a monitor based at least on the intraocular aberration and the internal aberration, a first operating unit configured to receive a changing operation, an internal aberration predicting unit configured to predict the internal aberration after the parameter is changed in accordance with the changing operation, and a re-calculating unit configured to re-calculate the intraocular aberration based on the predicted internal aberration and the acquired cornea aberration, and the display controlling unit updates the optical characteristic to be displayed on the monitor based on the predicted internal aberration and the re-calculated intraocular aberration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiya IKAWA, Mutsutaka ISHIHARA, Akihiro HARADA
  • Patent number: 12162458
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an actuator drive controller configured to control a drive of an actuator; a main motor drive controller configured to control a drive of a main motor; and a stuck determiner. The stuck determiner determines a stuck of the actuator based on a detection value of a sensor unit that detects a physical quantity changed according to a drive state of the actuator. The main motor drive controller is configured to perform an engaging surface pressure reduction control for reducing an engaging surface pressure between a parking gear and a parking lever by driving the main motor, when the stuck determiner determines that the actuator is stuck in releasing a parking lock of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Seiji Nakayama, Shigeru Kamio, Takuji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12145450
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle drive system including a main motor as a drive source of a vehicle, a parking lock mechanism, and an actuator. The vehicle control device includes an actuator drive control section that controls a drive of the actuator, a main motor drive control section that controls a drive of the main motor, and a range determination unit that determines whether or not a shift range is a parking range. When releasing the parking lock, if the parking range is not released within a parking range release determination time that is variable according to an operating environment, the main motor drive control section performs a meshing surface pressure reduction control for driving the main motor so as to reduce a meshing surface pressure between a parking gear and a parking lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Shigeru Kamio, Seiji Nakayama
  • Patent number: 12135097
    Abstract: Provided is a fluid control device that is compact and that enables data regarding an internal operation of the device to be acquired. A fluid control device V is disposed in a flow path of a fluid and enables data regarding an internal operation to be acquired, the fluid control device including a sensor hood 44 to which one or more sensors M2 for detecting an operation in the fluid control device are attached; a valve body 1 connected to the sensor hood; a diaphragm 42 held below the sensor hood, inside the valve body; a cover portion 5 that covers the outer periphery of the sensor hood; and a circuit board 60 that is electrically connected to the sensor(s) and for which a thickness direction of the circuit board and a flow path direction are arranged in the same direction on the inside of the cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kengo Tsujino, Ryutaro Tanno, Hiroto Shibata, Akihiro Harada, Tomohiro Nakata, Tsutomu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 12128763
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle drive system having a main motor serving as a source of drive power of a vehicle, a parking lock mechanism, and an actuator. The vehicle control device includes an actuator drive controller that controls drive of the actuator, and a main motor drive controller that controls drive of the main motor. When a parking lock of the vehicle cannot be released by the actuator due to an engaging surface pressure between a parking gear and a parking lever, the main motor drive controller performs an engaging surface pressure reduction control in which an engaging surface pressure is reduced by driving the main motor to cause an increase of a torque of the main motor by a set increase speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Seiji Nakayama, Shigeru Kamio
  • Patent number: 12123517
    Abstract: To enable accurate and simple diagnosis of an operation abnormality of a valve. A valve V1 capable of detecting an operation abnormality has a magnet M1 that is attached in the vicinity of a pressing adapter 52 of a stem 53 that slides according to an opening/closing operation of the valve V1, and a magnetic sensor M2 that is attached to a surface acing the stem 53, inside the pressing adapter 52 that presses a peripheral edge of a diaphragm 51, and detects a change in a distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2. Further, an abnormality determination mechanism compares the change in the distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of abnormality diagnosis detected by the magnetic sensor M2 and a previously measured change in the distance between the magnet M and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of normality, and determines whether or not there is an abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Kenji Aikawa, Akihiro Harada, Yuya Suzuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Katsunori Komehana, Masahiko Ochiishi, Tsutomu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 12085186
    Abstract: A valve which can accurately detect an operation of the valve is provided. The valve includes a valve body defining a fluid flow passage, a valve disk operating to be able to open and close the fluid flow passage, an actuator driving the valve disk by supplying or interrupting a working fluid, a stem transmitting a driving force of the actuator to the valve disk, a detection means detecting an opening and closing operation of the valve disk, and an elastic member fixing a ring-shaped magnetic body inserted through an end of the stem to the stem. The detection means includes the magnetic body fixed by the elastic member, and a magnetic sensor detecting a change in a magnetic field of the magnetic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kengo Tsujino, Tomoki Nakada, Ryutaro Tanno, Yuya Suzuki, Akihiro Harada, Tsutomu Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20240229940
    Abstract: The invention provides a valve capable of suppressing unintended valve opening/closing by providing a play state during a manual operation and also enabling smooth transition from the play state to a rotation state. In the valve, a tip of another end portion of the stem and the engagement hole of an operation handle form a corresponding circumferential surface and a planar section continuous to the circumferential surface. Either one of the tip of the other end portion of the stem and the planar section of the engagement hole of the operation handle is formed to have two flat surfaces defining a predetermined angle, and thereby generates predetermined play when the operation handle is rotated in one direction after being rotated in another direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Keisuke Ishibashi, Akihiro Harada, Tadayuki Yakushijin, Yusei Horikawa, Souta Hachiman, Toshiyuki Inada, Ryo Sugimura
  • Patent number: 11972884
    Abstract: A soft magnetic alloy includes a main component of (Fe(1?(?+?))X1?X2?)(1?(a+b+c+d+e))MaBbPcSidCe. X1 is one or more of Co and Ni. X2 is one or more of Al, Mn, Ag, Zn, Sn, As, Sb, Cu, Cr, Bi, N, O, and rare earth elements. M is one or more of Nb, Hf, Zr, Ta, Mo, W, and V. 0.020?a?0.14 is satisfied. 0.020<b?0.20 is satisfied. 0?d?0.060 is satisfied. ??0 is satisfied. ??0 is satisfied. 0??+??0.50 is satisfied. c and e are within a predetermined range. The soft magnetic alloy has a nanohetero structure or a structure of Fe based nanocrystallines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshidome, Akihiro Harada, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kenji Horino, Akito Hasegawa, Kensuke Ara, Hajime Amano, Masakazu Hosono
  • Publication number: 20240067142
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an actuator drive controller configured to control a drive of an actuator; a main motor drive controller configured to control a drive of a main motor; and a stuck determiner. The stuck determiner determines a stuck of the actuator based on a detection value of a sensor unit that detects a physical quantity changed according to a drive state of the actuator. The main motor drive controller is configured to perform an engaging surface pressure reduction control for reducing an engaging surface pressure between a parking gear and a parking lever by driving the main motor, when the stuck determiner determines that the actuator is stuck in releasing a parking lock of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro HARADA, Seiji NAKAYAMA, Shigeru KAMIO, Takuji NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240059155
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle drive system including a main motor as a drive source of a vehicle, a parking lock mechanism, and an actuator. The vehicle control device includes an actuator drive control section that controls a drive of the actuator, a main motor drive control section that controls a drive of the main motor, and a range determination unit that determines whether or not a shift range is a parking range. When releasing the parking lock, if the parking range is not released within a parking range release determination time that is variable according to an operating environment, the main motor drive control section performs a meshing surface pressure reduction control for driving the main motor so as to reduce a meshing surface pressure between a parking gear and a parking lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro HARADA, Shigeru KAMIO, Seiji NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11906062
    Abstract: A fluid control device includes; upstream side and downstream side joint blocks defining a fluid flow path, and having engaging portions at a bottom surface side; a support member having a guide portion to which the engaging portions of the upstream side and downstream side joint blocks can be engaged; and a fluid device supported by the support member via the upstream side and the downstream side joint blocks; wherein the upstream side and the downstream side joint blocks are fixed to the guide portion by utilizing a reaction force against a bending force generated by the tightening force of fastening bolts to the upstream side and the downstream side joint blocks and the fluid device connected together, and the length of the engaging portions in the longitudinal direction of the joint blocks is formed shorter than the length of the joint blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Kenji Aikawa
  • Patent number: 11906045
    Abstract: A control device switches a shift range by driving a motor and moving a detent roller in a parking lock system including an electric actuator having the motor and a detent mechanism. A control unit of the control device includes a drive control part, a position determination part and a range determination part. The drive control part controls driving of the motor. When the detent roller is moved to a target valley portion corresponding to the target range, a position determination part determines that the detent roller has passed over a peak portion based on sensor information. The range determination part is configured to estimate that the detent roller has reached the range of the target range corresponding to the target range at a peak passing over determination timing when it is determined that the detent roller has passed over the peak portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoko Tanemura, Seiji Nakayama, Akihiro Harada, Haruka Miyano
  • Publication number: 20240042849
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle drive system having a main motor serving as a source of drive power of a vehicle, a parking lock mechanism, and an actuator. The vehicle control device includes an actuator drive controller that controls drive of the actuator, and a main motor drive controller that controls drive of the main motor. When a parking lock of the vehicle cannot be released by the actuator due to an engaging surface pressure between a parking gear and a parking lever, the main motor drive controller performs an engaging surface pressure reduction control in which an engaging surface pressure is reduced by driving the main motor to cause an increase of a torque of the main motor by a set increase speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro HARADA, Seiji NAKAYAMA, Shigeru KAMIO
  • Publication number: 20240042869
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an actuator drive control section that controls drive of an actuator, a main motor drive control section that controls drive of a main motor, and a stagnation determination section. The stagnation determination section determines a stagnation of the actuator based on a detected value of a sensor unit that detects a physical quantity that changes according to a drive state of the actuator. When performing a meshing surface pressure reduction control for reducing a meshing surface pressure generated at the meshing point between a parking gear and a parking lever by driving the main motor, the main motor drive control section decreases a main motor torque which is a torque of the main motor based on the detected value of the sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro HARADA, Seiji NAKAYAMA, Shigeru KAMIO
  • Patent number: 11859733
    Abstract: A valve device comprising: a flow passage block in which a flow passage is formed; a diaphragm configured to open and close the flow passage; an actuator configured to push down the diaphragm via a diaphragm holder; a tubular bonnet formed with an internal thread on an inner circumferential surface, the bonnet being configured to join the flow passage block and the actuator; a tubular adjusting screw threaded to the internal thread, the adjusting screw being configured to come into contact with the diaphragm holder to adjust a valve opening position of the diaphragm; and an annular lock nut configured to lock the adjusting screw by being screwed into the internal thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akihiro Harada, Tomohiro Nakata, Takeru Miura, Michio Yamaji, Tadayuki Yakushijin, Keisuke Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20230341048
    Abstract: A control device switches a shift range by driving a motor and moving a detent roller in a parking lock system including an electric actuator having the motor and a detent mechanism. A control unit of the control device includes a drive control part, a position determination part and a range determination part. The drive control part controls driving of the motor. When the detent roller is moved to a target valley portion corresponding to the target range, a position determination part determines that the detent roller has passed over a peak portion based on sensor information. The range determination part is configured to estimate that the detent roller has reached the range of the target range corresponding to the target range at a peak passing over determination timing when it is determined that the detent roller has passed over the peak portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Satoko TANEMURA, Seiji NAKAYAMA, Akihiro HARADA, Haruka MIYANO
  • Publication number: 20230332714
    Abstract: Provided is a fluid control device that is compact and that enables data regarding an internal operation of the device to be acquired. A fluid control device V is disposed in a flow path of a fluid and enables data regarding an internal operation to be acquired, the fluid control device including a sensor hood 44 to which one or more sensors M2 for detecting an operation in the fluid control device are attached; a valve body 1 connected to the sensor hood; a diaphragm 42 held below the sensor hood, inside the valve body; a cover portion 5 that covers the outer periphery of the sensor hood; and a circuit board 60 that is electrically connected to the sensor(s) and for which a thickness direction of the circuit board and a flow path direction are arranged in the same direction on the inside of the cover portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kengo TSUJINO, Ryutaro TANNO, Hiroto SHIBATA, Akihiro HARADA, Tomohiro NAKATA, Tsutomu SHINOHARA