Patents by Inventor Akihiro Ichinose

Akihiro Ichinose 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: 20240051063
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic joining apparatus according to the present disclosure, an ultrasonic joining apparatus control board controls an operation of a lead set unit and a tension adjustment unit including a dancer roller to perform joining tension control processing. The joining tension control processing includes steps of: making a lead wire housing mechanism perform a rewinding driving of rewinding a lead wire in a lead cassette when the dancer roller reaches a lower limit adjustment position in a tension adjustment range; and making the lead wire housing mechanism perform a delivery driving of sending out the lead wire from the lead cassette when the dancer roller reaches an upper limit adjustment position in the tension adjustment range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro ICHINOSE
  • Patent number: 11760602
    Abstract: A lead wire storage mechanism stores most of a lead wire such that the lead wire can be taken out from a tip end portion. A tension adjusting mechanism including a dancer roller and two lifting and lowering guide rollers is formed with a partial space that is to be a part of a hand travel space at a time of a preparation state. A lead wire guide mechanism including an opening and closing lead guide is formed with a partial space that is to be a part of the hand travel space at the time of the preparation state. A lead wire grasping and moving mechanism can execute a grasping operation for grasping a tip end portion of the lead wire with a grasping part, and a grasping part moving operation for moving the grasping part through the hand travel space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Ichinose, Yoshihito Yamada
  • Patent number: 11433474
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic bonding method, three ultrasonic bonding head units are disposed above a bonding target. At this time, initial heights in the three ultrasonic bonding head units are set to different heights from each other. Thereafter, a batch multiple lowering operation by a lifting-lowering servomotor and ultrasonic vibration operations by the three ultrasonic bonding head units are executed. At this time, a lowering speed V6 of the batch multiple lowering operation, an operation time T6 (min) of the ultrasonic vibration operation, and an adjustment gap length ?g among the initial heights are set to satisfy {T6<?g/V6}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yoshihito Yamada, Akihiro Ichinose
  • Publication number: 20220252102
    Abstract: A floating joint includes a driving side coupling portion and a driven side coupling portion serving as first and second connections. A pressure adjusting structure in the floating joint is provided between the bottom surface exposed region of the spherical portion for contact and the bottom surface facing region of a fixing ring without a gap, and has elasticity. Therefore, the floating joint relatively firmly maintains the one-side spherical contact relationship, in which the top region of the spherical portion for contact contacts a part of the bottom surface portion of the frame body by the elastic force of the pressure adjusting structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro ICHINOSE
  • Patent number: 11249008
    Abstract: First and second operations are executed under control of a peeling inspection control apparatus functioning as a peeling and grasping control unit. In the first operation, a processed surface contact state in which a processed outer peripheral surface of a contact roller and a surface of a lead wire are in contact with each other is maintained, and contact roller rotation operation is executed in which the contact roller is moved on the surface of the lead wire while the contact roller is being rotated. During execution of the first operation, a tip portion of the lead wire is peeled from a glass substrate. Thereafter, in the second operation, grasping operation is executed in which the tip portion of the lead wire peeled from the glass substrate is grasped by a grasping mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Ichinose, Yoshihito Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220002112
    Abstract: A lead wire storage mechanism stores most of a lead wire such that the lead wire can be taken out from a tip end portion. A tension adjusting mechanism including a dancer roller and two lifting and lowering guide rollers is formed with a partial space that is to be a part of a hand travel space at a time of a preparation state. A lead wire guide mechanism including an opening and closing lead guide is formed with a partial space that is to be a part of the hand travel space at the time of the preparation state. A lead wire grasping and moving mechanism can execute a grasping operation for grasping a tip end portion of the lead wire with a grasping part, and a grasping part moving operation for moving the grasping part through the hand travel space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro ICHINOSE, Yoshihito YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11214017
    Abstract: An ultrasonic vibration welding apparatus includes an air cylinder that is coupled to an ultrasonic welding head unit and executes a pressurizing operation of pressurizing on the ultrasonic welding head unit, and a lifting-lowering servomotor that executes a lifting-lowering operation including a lowering operation of lowering the ultrasonic welding head unit and the air cylinder at once, as components separate from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Yamada, Akihiro Ichinose
  • Publication number: 20210262919
    Abstract: First and second operations are executed under control of a peeling inspection control apparatus functioning as a peeling and grasping control unit. In the first operation, a processed surface contact state in which a processed outer peripheral surface of a contact roller and a surface of a lead wire are in contact with each other is maintained, and contact roller rotation operation is executed in which the contact roller is moved on the surface of the lead wire while the contact roller is being rotated. During execution of the first operation, a tip portion of the lead wire is peeled from a glass substrate. Thereafter, in the second operation, grasping operation is executed in which the tip portion of the lead wire peeled from the glass substrate is grasped by a grasping mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro ICHINOSE, Yoshihito YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210220940
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic bonding method, three ultrasonic bonding head units are disposed above a bonding target. At this time, initial heights in the three ultrasonic bonding head units are set to different heights from each other. Thereafter, a batch multiple lowering operation by a lifting-lowering servomotor and ultrasonic vibration operations by the three ultrasonic bonding head units are executed. At this time, a lowering speed V6 of the batch multiple lowering operation, an operation time T6 (min) of the ultrasonic vibration operation, and an adjustment gap length ?g among the initial heights are set to satisfy {T6<?g/V6}.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Yoshihito YAMADA, Akihiro ICHINOSE
  • Patent number: 10953487
    Abstract: A bonding tool that executes an ultrasonic vibration processing of applying ultrasonic vibration to an application portion on a lead wire from a direct contact tip portion and a pair of press mechanisms having a pair of press rollers capable of performing a rotational operation. The pair of press mechanisms executes a press processing of pressing both sides of the application portion on the lead wire by the pair of press rollers at a time of execution of the ultrasonic vibration processing by the bonding tool and a movement processing of executing a rotational operation performed by the pair of press rollers to move the pair of press rollers on the lead wire while pressing the lead wire at a time of non-execution of the ultrasonic vibration processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ichinose, Yoshihito Yamada
  • Patent number: 10946475
    Abstract: A bonding tool as the tool for ultrasonic bonding includes a plurality of protrusion portions in a protrusion region at a contact tip portion. The plurality of protrusion portions are equally spaced at a longitudinal direction interval in an X direction as the longitudinal direction of the protrusion region, and an X direction outermost protrusion portion positioned outermost in the X direction is disposed separately from a side edge of the protrusion region in the X direction by a longitudinal direction side edge distance. The plurality of protrusion portions are disposed so that a first disposition condition {0.349?EX (the longitudinal direction side edge distance/DX (the longitudinal direction interval)?0.510} is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ichinose, Yoshihito Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200156328
    Abstract: An ultrasonic vibration welding apparatus includes an air cylinder that is coupled to an ultrasonic welding head unit and executes a pressurizing operation of pressurizing on the ultrasonic welding head unit, and a lifting-lowering servomotor that executes a lifting-lowering operation including a lowering operation of lowering the ultrasonic welding head unit and the air cylinder at once, as components separate from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito YAMADA, Akihiro ICHINOSE
  • Publication number: 20190160587
    Abstract: A bonding tool as the tool for ultrasonic bonding includes a plurality of protrusion portions in a protrusion region at a contact tip portion. The plurality of protrusion portions are equally spaced at a longitudinal direction interval in an X direction as the longitudinal direction of the protrusion region, and an X direction outermost protrusion portion positioned outermost in the X direction is disposed separately from a side edge of the protrusion region in the X direction by a longitudinal direction side edge distance. The plurality of protrusion portions are disposed so that a first disposition condition {0.349?EX (the longitudinal direction side edge distance/DX (the longitudinal direction interval)?0.510} is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro ICHINOSE, Yoshihito YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20180272463
    Abstract: A bonding tool that executes an ultrasonic vibration processing of applying ultrasonic vibration to an application portion on a lead wire from a direct contact tip portion and a pair of press mechanisms having a pair of press rollers capable of performing a rotational operation. The pair of press mechanisms executes a press processing of pressing both sides of the application portion on the lead wire by the pair of press rollers at a time of execution of the ultrasonic vibration processing by the bonding tool and a movement processing of executing a rotational operation performed by the pair of press rollers to move the pair of press rollers on the lead wire while pressing the lead wire at a time of non-execution of the ultrasonic vibration processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro ICHINOSE, Yoshihito YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160357490
    Abstract: Acquiring means acquires relevant information (for example, information indicative of an amount of processing that has been performed relative to the content based on a user's operation) relevant to content. Selecting means selects one or more content from among a plurality of content corresponding to a plurality of items of display information displayed on first display means, based on relevant information acquired by acquiring means for each of the plurality of content. Display control means causes second display means to display the one or more content selected by selecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoru KAWAMURA, Takashi OOMIYA, Tomohiro ANDO, Akihiro ICHINOSE, Masami NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20160288246
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an electrode bonding apparatus that performs ultrasonic vibration bonding on points of an electrode and is capable of reducing variations in a peel force among the points even when the electrode is bonded onto the substrate at a lower peel force. According to the present invention, a collecting electrode (20A, 20B) is disposed along a side (L1, L2) of a glass substrate (1) on a solar cell (ST1). Then, the glass substrate is pressed along the side in a region of the glass substrate between the side and an arrangement position of the collecting electrode. During application of the pressure, the ultrasonic vibration bonding is performed on the collecting electrode using an ultrasonic vibration tool (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro ICHINOSE, Yoshihito YAMADA, Tomoyuki NISHINAKA, Akio YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 7886189
    Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus with the lower communication cost in sending a log at the occurrence of a malfunction, abnormality or fault in the mobile terminal apparatus to a network. A diagnostic process for the malfunction is performed in accordance with a diagnostic policy acquired from the outside. An error code corresponding to the diagnostic result is generated. The generated error code is outputted. With an automatic fault diagnostic function of automatically analyzing the fault in the mobile terminal apparatus without directly sending the log collected in the mobile terminal apparatus to an analytic server, the communication cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kensaku Mori, Koichi Asano, Akihiro Ichinose, Yoshimasa Nishimura
  • Patent number: 7881700
    Abstract: A cell phone 1 is characterized by having a problem determination storage 3 for storing problem finding information for determining whether there is a problem in received data received by a radio communicator 2, in correspondence to a fixed message, and for storing an arbitrary message available for arbitrary correspondence to the problem finding information; an arbitrary message determination processor 5 for determining whether an arbitrary message is stored in correspondence to the problem finding information in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that there is a problem in the received data; and an operation controller 6 for displaying the arbitrary message when the arbitrary message determination processor 5 determines that the arbitrary message is stored, and for displaying the fixed message stored in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that no arbitrary message is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nishimura, Koichi Asano, Hyunsuk Seung, Akihiro Ichinose, Ai Nagai
  • Patent number: 7849191
    Abstract: A download system capable of appropriately spreading loads on a server and on a transmission path, and further enhancing convenience in download of data. A reservation candidate acquirer of a communication terminal acquires from a software managing server reservation candidate information containing time information about time zones as candidates to which a reservation for download of an update file can be allocated. At the communication terminal a user selects a reserved time zone from the time zones corresponding to the time information included in the reservation candidate information, and the software managing server registers the reservation in the reserved time zone. Thereby, the reserved time zone can be selected from the candidate time zones transmitted by the software managing server and the candidate time zones are determined based on a reservation table set so as to spread loads on the software managing server and on the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nose, Koichi Moriyama, Seiji Hoshi, Akihiro Ichinose, Masato Takeichi, Kazunori Nasu, Atsushi Hosokawa, Yuka Kubokawa
  • Publication number: 20090280778
    Abstract: A cell phone 1 is characterized by having a problem determination storage 3 for storing problem finding information for determining whether there is a problem in received data received by a radio communicator 2, in correspondence to a fixed message, and for storing an arbitrary message available for arbitrary correspondence to the problem finding information; an arbitrary message determination processor 5 for determining whether an arbitrary message is stored in correspondence to the problem finding information in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that there is a problem in the received data; and an operation controller 6 for displaying the arbitrary message when the arbitrary message determination processor 5 determines that the arbitrary message is stored, and for displaying the fixed message stored in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that no arbitrary message is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Nishimura, Koichi Asano, Hyunsuk Seung, Akihiro Ichinose, Ai Nagai