Patents by Inventor Akihiro Takeda
Akihiro Takeda 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).
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Patent number: 12164293Abstract: A remote operation device that remotely operates a mobile object by communication includes processing circuitry configured to acquire information on non-prime remote operation devices that are allowed to remotely operate the mobile object by the communication; detect a communication delay time in the communication with the mobile object; determine whether or not the detected communication delay time exceeds a delay time determination threshold; determine, when it is determined that the communication delay time exceeds the delay time determination threshold, a switching destination remote operation device from among the non-prime remote operation devices depending on whether or not a switching determination condition is satisfied on a basis of the acquired information on the non-prime remote operation devices; and output switching instruction information for remotely operating the mobile object to the determined switching destination remote operation device.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisao Nakano, Makoto Takeda, Takuya Kono, Akihiro Sanada
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Patent number: 12120483Abstract: An audio device includes a vibration member, and a first piezoelectric vibrator and a second piezoelectric vibrator that are provided on the vibration member. A natural frequency of the first piezoelectric vibrator is larger than a natural frequency of the second piezoelectric vibrator.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Takuto Horii, Yoshikazu Shimura, Atsushi Ezawa, Miho Bamba, Kaoru Kijima, Akihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 12109800Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, a first lamp, and a second lamp. The first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, and the platen is moved from the second head toward the first head relatively with respect to the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp, repeatedly. The second head ejects the second ink onto the object to be printed placed on the platen while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction. The first lamp irradiates light onto the second ink on the object to be printed while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishimoto, Kosuke Nukui, Kenta Hasebe, Kengo Takeda
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Patent number: 12109799Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, and an illumination device. In a normal print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, in a state in which a distance between the platen and a predetermined position of the illumination device in the height direction is a first distance, and the ink is ejected onto an object to be printed placed on the platen and the light is irradiated onto the ejected ink. In a gloss print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in the main scanning direction, in a state in which the distance between the platen and the predetermined position in the height direction is a second distance larger than the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kengo Takeda, Akihiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishimoto, Kosuke Nukui, Kenta Hasebe
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Publication number: 20240316228Abstract: Provided is a conjugate of a chelating agent chelated with a radionuclide and a deglycosylated antibody, where the chelating agent site-specifically modifies the Fc region of the aforementioned antibody via a linker. The conjugate shows increased accumulation in a tumor and decreased accumulation in normal tissues. These differences in accumulation are associated with a decrease in a risk of side effects.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: NIHON MEDI-PHYSICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi KISHIMOTO, Takuya TAKEDA, Yudai NARITA, Minoru KAWATANI, Akihiro IZAWA, Yuta TARUMIZU
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Patent number: 12082976Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus for generating a tomographic image of a subject by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a hardware processor that: detects a blood vessel imaged in the tomographic image; determines whether an image of the blood vessel which has been detected falls under either a short axis view or a long axis view by an image analysis of the tomographic image; and sets a steering angle of an ultrasound beam used in measuring conditions of the detected blood vessel or a blood flow velocity in the detected blood vessel, based on a determination result of the image of the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Makiko Urabe, Akihiro Kawabata, Yoshihiro Takeda
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Publication number: 20240280106Abstract: An electric pump includes a case, and a motor that includes a rotor and a stator and is surrounded by the case. The case includes an introduction pipe portion for introducing a fluid and a discharge pipe portion for discharging the fluid. The rotor is disposed in a space surrounded by the case and the stator and communicating with the introduction pipe portion and the discharge pipe portion. The rotor includes a first blade member, a second blade member, and a relay portion. An outer diameter of the relay portion is smaller than an outer diameter of at least one of the first and second blade members. The relay portion is positioned between the first blade member and the second blade member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: SHINANO KENSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya NAKANO, Norihiro SUDO, Akihiro TAKEDA, Yuki SAKYU
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Publication number: 20240249923Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing apparatus that includes a process chamber in which at least one substrate is processed; a gas supplier configured to supply a gas; and a buffer structure. The buffer structure includes at least two plasma generation regions in which gas is converted into plasma by a pair of electrodes connected to a high-frequency power supply and an electrode to be grounded, a first gas supply port that supplies a gas generated in a first plasma generation region among the at least two plasma generation regions, and a second gas supply port that supplies a gas generated in a second plasma generation region among the at least two plasma generation regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: Kokusai Electric CorporationInventors: Akihiro SATO, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Yukitomo Hirochi
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Patent number: 11944999Abstract: A vibration device includes a bimorph type piezoelectric element having a first main surface and a second main surface facing each other and a vibration member bonded to the second main surface of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element has a first active region disposed closer to the first main surface between the first and second main surfaces and a second active region disposed closer to the second main surface than the first active region between the first and second main surfaces. When a force generated in the first active region is F1, a force generated in the second active region is F2, and a force by which the vibration member restrains the second active region is Fr, F2?F1?Fr is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Hideya Sakamoto, Kazushi Tachimoto, Yoshikazu Shimura, Tetsuyuki Taniguchi, Akihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 11930713Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body, an electrode layer, and a reinforcing layer. The piezoelectric body has a first main surface, a second main surface, and a side surface. The first main surface and the second main surface oppose each other. The side surface extends in an opposing direction in which the first main surface and the second main surface oppose each other in such a way as to connect the first main surface and the second main surface. The electrode layer is provided in the piezoelectric body. The reinforcing layer is provided on the first main surface. The electrode layer is provided opposing the first main surface and apart from the side surface. When viewed from the opposing direction, the electrode layer has a corner. When viewed from the opposing direction, the reinforcing layer overlaps the corner.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Hideya Sakamoto, Kazushi Tachimoto, Yoshikazu Shimura, Tetsuyuki Taniguchi, Akihiro Takeda
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Publication number: 20230388716Abstract: An acoustic device includes: a first vibrating body having a first vibration frequency; a second vibrating body having a second vibration frequency; and a base material having a disposition surface on which the second vibrating body is disposed. In a plan view of the base material, the first vibrating body and the second vibrating body are arranged in an in-plane direction of the disposition surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KATO, Akihiro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230320225Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body, an external electrode, and an internal electrode. The internal electrode includes first and second internal conductors opposing each other. The first internal conductor includes first and second conductor portions continuous with each other. The second internal conductor includes a third conductor portion opposing the first conductor portion in a direction where the first and second internal conductors oppose each other, and a fourth conductor portion including a first region connected to the second conductor portion, and a second region continuous with the first region and continuous with the third conductor portion. The piezoelectric body includes a body portion located between the first and the second internal conductors, and formed with a through hole penetrating the body portion in the direction. The fourth conductor portion is located in the through hole and has a thickness increasing toward a center line of the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Hiroki MITSUI, Hideya Sakamoto, Yoshiki Ohta, Miho Kato, Hiroyuki Ijiri, Akihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 11688375Abstract: Provided is a musical instrument controller capable of accurately controlling a musical sound parameter. This musical instrument controller includes: a reception means for receiving, from a musical performance device, a sound emission start signal transmitted on the basis of a musical performance operation; a sensor for detecting an amount of displacement from a reference position; and a control means for generating a control signal on the basis of the amount of displacement from the reference position and transmitting the control signal to a sound generation device. The control means sets the reference position on the basis of the sound emission start signal received from the musical performance device.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Roland CorporationInventors: Jun-ichi Miki, Akihiro Takeda, Hiroyuki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11665967Abstract: A vibration device includes a piezoelectric vibrator having a piezoelectric element and a diaphragm having a pair of main surfaces facing each other, the piezoelectric element being bonded to the main surface, a vibration member where the piezoelectric vibrator is disposed, and an adhesive member disposed between the diaphragm and the vibration member and bonding the diaphragm and the vibration member. Each of the pair of main surfaces of the diaphragm has a rectangular shape when viewed from a facing direction of the pair of main surfaces, and the adhesive member is disposed in a facing manner on at least a pair of sides of the main surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuhei Sasaki, Yoshikazu Shimura, Yoshiki Ohta, Kazushi Tachimoto, Hideya Sakamoto, Tetsuyuki Taniguchi, Akihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 11581479Abstract: In a piezoelectric element, shift of a resonance point to a low-pitched sound side is achieved. A resonance point of a piezoelectric element moves to a low-pitched sound side when an active region is configured to be surrounded by an inactive region as in the configuration of the piezoelectric element. According to the piezoelectric element whose resonance point is moved to a low-pitched sound side, the piezoelectric element can realize a sound pressure that is sufficiently high for practical use when it is applied to an acoustic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshikazu Shimura, Kaoru Kijima, Hideya Sakamoto, Kazushi Tachimoto, Ryuhei Sasaki, Yoshiki Ohta, Akihiro Takeda
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Publication number: 20230024709Abstract: Provided are a control device, a control method and a control system. In a control system, a headphone and a pedal device are in communication with each other through first communication, and the pedal device and a portable terminal are in communication with each other through second communication. Accordingly, even when the headphone can be connected to only one control device, a control instruction from the pedal device can be transmitted to the headphone through the first communication, and a control instruction from the portable terminal can be transmitted to the headphone through the second communication and the first communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Roland CorporationInventor: Akihiro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230020640Abstract: A pedal device receives a connection signal transmitted from headphone to establish first communication that is communication with the headphone. Then, in a case where the first communication has been established, the pedal device transmits the connection signal including information indicating that communication with the headphone has been established. By receiving the connection signal from the pedal device, a portable terminal establishes second communication that is communication with the pedal device. In a case where the received connection signal includes information that the communication with the headphone has been established, the portable terminal may determine that communication establishment between the pedal device and the headphone has been completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Roland CorporationInventor: Akihiro TAKEDA
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Patent number: 11548030Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric element body including a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposing each other, and a plurality of external electrodes disposed on the first principal surface. A vibration member includes a third principal surface opposing the second principal surface. The piezoelectric element is joined to the third principal surface. A wiring member is electrically connected to the piezoelectric element. The wiring member includes a region located on the plurality of external electrodes and joined to the plurality of external electrodes. The region of the wiring member monolithically covers the plurality of external electrodes when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the first principal surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Kazushi Tachimoto, Hideya Sakamoto, Tetsuyuki Taniguchi, Tatsuya Taki, Tomohiro Takeda, Akihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 11532779Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a conductor. The piezoelectric body layer has rectangular first and second principal surfaces opposing each other, and includes a piezoelectric material. The first electrode is provided on the first principal surface. The second electrode is provided on the first principal surface in such a way that the second electrode is separated from the first electrode. The third electrode is provided on the second principal surface in such a way that the third electrode opposes the first electrode. The conductor is connected to the second electrode and the third electrode. The first electrode has a round corner being rounder than a corner part of the piezoelectric body layer when seen in an opposing direction of the first and second principal surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Hideya Sakamoto, Kazushi Tachimoto, Nobuo Furukawa, Akihiro Takeda
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Publication number: 20220352454Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body including a piezoelectric material, and a first electrode and a second electrode provided on the piezoelectric body. The piezoelectric body includes a base and a plurality of drivers. The base includes a first main surface and a second main surface opposing each other. The plurality of drivers is arranged on the first main surface in such a way as to be separate from each other. Each of the plurality of drivers includes a third main surface contacting the first main surface and a fourth main surface opposing the third main surface. The base includes a plurality of first regions in which the plurality of drivers is provided and a second region provided between the first regions adjacent to each other. The base is curved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki OHTA, Jun SUGAWARA, Kenichiro ANDOU, Nana SATO, Akihiro TAKEDA