Patents by Inventor Akira Miki

Akira Miki 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: 20200097022
    Abstract: An optimum route of multiple mobile objects is estimated by: generating a time-series route candidate of a shortest route for each mobile object; generating a time-series route candidate of a detour route for each mobile object; calculating route assignment evaluation values for the shortest route and the detour route for each mobile object; calculating travel distance evaluation values for the shortest route and the detour route for each mobile object; calculating a route collision evaluation value of a combination for the shortest route and the detour route for each mobile object; and comparing a total value of the route assignment evaluation value, the travel distance evaluation value, and the route collision evaluation value for combinations of the time-series route candidates of the mobile objects, and estimating one of the combinations of the time-series route candidates of the mobile objects as the optimum route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Akira MIKI, Masayuki OHZEKI
  • Publication number: 20190297413
    Abstract: A bass reflex port including: a tubular body portion; and a surface forming portion which is board-like, and continuous to an inner wall of the tubular body portion and which has a surface extending radially outwardly from an opening end of the tubular body portion disposed in a housing of a speaker, wherein the surface forming portion extends linearly in a direction away from a tube axis of the tubular body portion in a cross section parallel to the tube axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Katsuya UCHIDA, Akira MIKI, Hirofumi ONITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20190141437
    Abstract: An acoustic device includes an enclosure and a bass reflex port that includes a tube body. An inner wall surface of the tube body includes multiple regions in which viscous resistances in a tube axis direction of moving air and the inner wall surface are different. The multiple regions are provided along a circumferential direction of the inner wall surface. The tube body is attached to an opening area in the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Akira MIKI, Hirofumi ONITSUKA, Katsuya UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 10062306
    Abstract: A display tool includes a display part, a back part, a stable part, a leg part, and a bottom part. The display part is disposed in its erected state. The back part has its upper edge connected to an upper edge of the display part and is disposed behind the display part such that a distance between the back part and the display part gradually increases from the upper edges to lower edges of the back part and the display part. The stable part protrudes downwardly along the back part from a portion of the lower edge of the back part. The leg part protrudes downward direction from the remaining portion of the lower edge of the back part at an angle less than an angle at which the back part slants. The bottom part is connected to a lower edge of the display part and to a lower edge of the leg part. The stable part is disposed such that its lower edge is in abutment with an upper surface of the bottom part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Komatsubara, Akira Miki, Yuki Ootomo
  • Patent number: 10045119
    Abstract: An acoustic structure defining a cavity in which a sound wave propagates, wherein a first portion of the cavity substantially corresponding to a position of a node or an antinode of a standing wave generated in the cavity has an area different from an area of a second portion of the cavity except the first portion, the area being on a plane orthogonal to a direction of propagation of the sound wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Matsuda, Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Publication number: 20180165994
    Abstract: A display tool includes a display part, a back part, a stable part, a leg part, and a bottom part. The display part is disposed in its erected state. The back part has its upper edge connected to an upper edge of the display part and is disposed behind the display part such that a distance between the back part and the display part gradually increases from the upper edges to lower edges of the back part and the display part. The stable part protrudes downwardly along the back part from a portion of the lower edge of the back part. The leg part protrudes downward direction from the remaining portion of the lower edge of the back part at an angle less than an angle at which the back part slants. The bottom part is connected to a lower edge of the display part and to a lower edge of the leg part. The stable part is disposed such that its lower edge is in abutment with an upper surface of the bottom part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: HIROYUKI KOMATSUBARA, AKIRA MIKI, YUKI OOTOMO
  • Patent number: 9753127
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus measuring a flight time of a search wave corresponding to a time after the search wave is emitted and before a reflected wave is received is provided. The measurement apparatus includes a transceiver, a memory portion, a sampling portion, a measurement portion, and a determination portion. The transceiver emits the search wave and receives the reflected wave. The sampling portion generates a sampling data and causes the memory portion to store the sampling data. The sampling portion includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit causes the memory portion to store the sampling data as a first signal data. The second processing unit causes the memory portion to store the sampling data as a second signal data. The measurement portion measures the flight time and generates a measurement value of the flight time. The determination portion determines a sampling period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Yamamoto, Shinichirou Taguchi, Akira Miki
  • Publication number: 20160373855
    Abstract: An acoustic structure defining a cavity in which a sound wave propagates, wherein a first portion of the cavity substantially corresponding to a position of a node or an antinode of a standing wave generated in the cavity has an area different from an area of a second portion of the cavity except the first portion, the area being on a plane orthogonal to a direction of propagation of the sound wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Hideto MATSUDA, Akira MIKI, Hirofumi ONITSUKA
  • Patent number: 9275612
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes: an instrument body; at least one speaker; and at least one acoustic pipe configured to collect a sound emitted from the at least one speaker and guide the sound to at least one sound emitting opening formed in a front face of the instrument body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa Suenaga, Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: 9241211
    Abstract: A tubular body having an air flow passage, wherein an area of a cross section, in a direction perpendicular to a tube axis, of a space enclosed with an inner wall of the tubular body increases toward an open end thereof, wherein a curvature of the inner wall at an end portion of the tubular body near the open end is repeatedly increased and decreased along a circumferential direction of the inner wall, and wherein, when the inner wall in a cross section of the end portion in the direction perpendicular to the tube axis is viewed from the tube axis, a convex portion at which the inner wall protrudes in a direction away from the tube axis and a concave portion at which the inner wall is recessed in a direction toward the tube axis are repeatedly formed along the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: 9232300
    Abstract: A bass reflex port having a tubular shape for air flows, wherein an angle of a first inner radial line with respect to a reference plane including a center axis of the bass reflex port differs from an angle of a second inner radial line with respect to the reference plane, the first line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing a first characteristic point on an inner circumference of the bass reflex port in a first transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the second line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing a second characteristic point corresponding to the first characteristic point and located on the inner circumference in a second transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the first transverse cross section and the second transverse cross section differing form each other in position in a direction of extension of the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Publication number: 20150194138
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes: an instrument body; at least one speaker; and at least one acoustic pipe configured to collect a sound emitted from the at least one speaker and guide the sound to at least one sound emitting opening formed in a front face of the instrument body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa SUENAGA, Akira MIKI, Hirofumi ONITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20150153452
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus measuring a flight time of a search wave corresponding to a time after the search wave is emitted and before a reflected wave is received is provided. The measurement apparatus includes a transceiver, a memory portion, a sampling portion, a measurement portion, and a determination portion. The transceiver emits the search wave and receives the reflected wave. The sampling portion generates a sampling data and causes the memory portion to store the sampling data. The sampling portion includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit causes the memory portion to store the sampling data as a first signal data. The second processing unit causes the memory portion to store the sampling data as a second signal data. The measurement portion measures the flight time and generates a measurement value of the flight time. The determination portion determines a sampling period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Hirofumi YAMAMOTO, Shinichirou TAGUCHI, Akira MIKI
  • Publication number: 20150110325
    Abstract: A speaker includes: one or more speaker units; a cabinet accommodating the one or more speaker units; and a speaker net mounted on one of the cabinet and at least one of the one or more speaker units so as to cover a sound emitting surface of each of the at least one of the one or more speaker units. The speaker net includes: a frame surrounding the sound emitting surface of each of the at least one of the one or more speaker units; and a sheet member stuck to the frame to cover the sound emitting surface of each of the at least one of the one or more speaker units. The frame being formed with at least one through hole establishing communication between (i) a space between the frame and the cabinet and (ii) a space outside the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuo SHIOZAWA, Akira MIKI, Hirofumi ONITSUKA
  • Patent number: D745492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: D750048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: D750599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: D752559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: D752560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka
  • Patent number: D752561
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miki, Hirofumi Onitsuka