Patents by Inventor Akira Mori

Akira Mori 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: 12258081
    Abstract: Provided is a rotation angle detection device including: an intermediate signal generation unit configured to generate an intermediate signal based on a product of a sine signal and a cosine signal which are based on a rotation angle of a rotating body; a first multiplication unit; and a first rotation angle calculation unit. The intermediate signal generation unit includes: a first multiplier configured to calculate the product of the sine signal and the cosine signal; and a first low-pass filter configured to remove frequency components equal to or higher than twice a frequency of fundamental waves of the sine signal and the cosine signal from an output of the first multiplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Akira Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20250076033
    Abstract: Provided is an optical displacement meter capable of solving problems such as dustproof and safety at the time of an operation and acquiring profiles of a plurality of positions of a workpiece with high accuracy without providing a conveyor or a linear motion mechanism. An optical displacement meter includes a light projecting and receiving module that integrally holds a light projecting unit, a light collecting unit, and a capturing unit to have a Scheimpflug relationship, a motor that integrally rotates the light projecting and receiving module, a housing that stores the light projecting and receiving module, and a control unit that controls the motor, and rotates the light projecting and receiving module in a state where the Scheimpflug relationship is maintained inside the housing to scan the slit light in a direction orthogonal to an X direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Akira FUYUNO, Tatsuro HOMMA, Izumi MORI, Atsushi SUBE
  • Patent number: 12243684
    Abstract: An actuator causes vibration of a movable body by a magnetic drive mechanism. The movable body includes: a support shaft having an outer circumferential surface fixed with a magnet; a cup-shaped first magnetic member fixed to an end surface of the magnet in an axial direction; and a second magnetic member fixed to an opposite side of an end plate of the first magnetic member from the side of the magnet. A weight adjustment section in the second magnetic member is a through hole. An outer shape of the second magnetic member is not reduced in size. A bent section of the first magnetic member overlaps an outer circumferential end of the second magnetic member. The weight adjustment section is provided on an inner circumferential side of an outer circumferential surface of the magnet. A magnetic member deficient portion is provided to avoid a portion with high magnetic flux density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Mori
  • Publication number: 20250046140
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a biometric information acquisition unit that acquires biometric information of a user at an arrival airport; a biometric matching unit that performs a matching process of the biometric information with registered biometric information of a registrant who deposited a baggage with the airline at a departure airport; and a guide unit that outputs guide information including a location of pickup in the arrival airport and a start time of pickup of the baggage associated with the registered biometric information to the user who is authenticated as the same person as the registrant by the matching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke MORI, Akira KAMEI, Miki OTANI
  • Publication number: 20250046139
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a biometric information acquisition unit that acquires biometric information of a user at an arrival airport; a biometric matching unit that performs a matching process of the biometric information with registered biometric information of a registrant who deposited a baggage with the airline at a departure airport; and a guide unit that outputs guide information including a location of pickup in the arrival airport and a start time of pickup of the baggage associated with the registered biometric information to the user who is authenticated as the same person as the registrant by the matching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke MORI, Akira Kamei, Miki Otani
  • Publication number: 20250037949
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vacuum interrupter includes a vacuum insulation container, a fixed side contact provided in the vacuum insulation container, and a movable side contact provided in the vacuum insulation container and configured to contact and separate from the fixed side contact. A first contact surface of the movable side contact configured to contact the fixed side contact is planar. A second contact surface of the fixed contact configured to contact the movable side contact is spherical protruding toward the movable side contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori MORI, Akira KANO, Takeshi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250029581
    Abstract: A control device in one embodiment includes a first transmission unit, a first receiving unit, and a first generation unit. The first transmission unit is configured to transmit first performance data including contents of playing a keyboard instrument at a first communication base to a second communication base. The first receiving unit is configured to receive second performance data from the second communication base. The first generation unit is configured to generate a drive signal to produce a sound in accordance with the second performance data and output the drive signal to a sound generation device at the first communication base. At least one of the first performance data and the second performance data includes a key position signal indicating a key press amount on the keyboard instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Yoshimasa ISOZAKI, Katsunori SUZUKI, Takahiro TERADA, Takashi MORI, Jun ISHII, Ibuki HANDA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Koji YATAKA, Yukio WAKUI, Soichi TAKIGAWA, Akira MAEZAWA, Haruki OHKAWA, Yoshikatsu MATSUBARA, Yasuhiko OBA, Fukutaro OKUYAMA, Tomoya SASAKI, Rei FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 12196203
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll. A facing surface of the fixed scroll that faces the movable scroll has a fixed oil groove. The fixed oil groove has a fixed circumferential groove portion. The fixed circumferential groove portion has a circular-arc portion that extends in the circumferential direction, and a wide portion wider in a radial direction than a groove width of the circular-arc portion. A facing surface of the movable scroll that faces the fixed scroll has a movable oil groove. The movable oil groove has a movable circumferential groove portion, and a radial groove portion that communicates with the movable circumferential groove portion. In a predetermined region of an angle range where the movable scroll makes an orbiting motion, a portion of the radial groove portion overlaps the wide portion as viewed from an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Katou, Yasuhiro Murakami, Kazuhiko Matsukawa, Akira Mori, Eitarou Nakatani, Yuuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240358048
    Abstract: Provided is a corn wet milling-derived article having a reduced sulfur dioxide concentration. The corn wet milling-derived article is a solid filamentous fungus culture. The corn wet milling-derived article may be one or more selected from the group consisting of corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, and corn germ. The sulfur dioxide content in the solid filamentous fungus culture may be 30 ppm or less. The filamentous fungus may be non-mycotoxin-producing microbes. The solid filamentous fungus culture may include an enzyme produced by the filamentous fungus. The solid filamentous fungus culture may include polysaccharides that constitute the fungus body of the filamentous fungus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Satoko Senoo, Natsuki Fukano, Akira Mori, Masahiro Kariyama, Naoki Oshida, Jun Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20240352194
    Abstract: Provided are a polyimide film that, when applied as a material for a spacecraft, exhibits excellent resistance to atomic oxygen derived from an oxygen molecule which is an atmospheric residual component and generates a small amount of outgas compound upon heating; and a polyimide used in the polyimide film. A polyimide for a spacecraft, the polyimide containing a diamine-derived structural unit and an aromatic acid dianhydride-derived structural unit, wherein the polyimide contains, as the diamine-derived structural unit, at least a structural unit derived from a silicon-containing diamine represented by the following formula (1) (provided that the silicon-containing diamine has a number average molecular weight of 500 or less), and a proportion of the structural unit derived from the silicon-containing diamine is 5 to 100 mol % relative to the entire diamine-derived structural unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira MORI, Yugo KIMOTO, Kaori UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20240333086
    Abstract: An actuator includes a support having a tubular case, a movable body having a shaft at a center of the case, a connection member connecting the support with the movable body, and a magnet and a coil structured to relatively move the movable body along the shaft with respect to the support. The connection member includes a ring-shaped inner frame having a through-hole to which the shaft is fitted, a ring-shaped outer frame which is held on an inner side of the case and is disposed on an outer peripheral side with respect to the inner frame, and a connection body which is connected with the outer frame and the inner frame and is provided with at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity. The inner frame is made of brass, and arithmetic surface roughness of an outer face of the inner frame is not less than 1.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Shun SASAKI, Akira MORI
  • Publication number: 20240333071
    Abstract: An actuator including a support having a tubular case and an outer frame inside the case, a movable body having a shaft at a center of the case and an inner frame holding the shaft from an outer peripheral side, a connection body connected with the outer frame and the inner frame and having at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnet and a coil structured to relatively move the movable body along the shaft with respect to the support. The inner frame includes a first member made of resin whose outer peripheral face is connected with the connection body and a second member made of metal which is fitted to an inner side of the first member, and the shaft is fixed to the first member through the second member by press-fitting the shaft to a center hole of the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Akira MORI
  • Publication number: 20240191712
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll. A facing surface of the fixed scroll that faces the movable scroll has a fixed oil groove. The fixed oil groove has a fixed circumferential groove portion. The fixed circumferential groove portion has a circular-arc portion that extends in the circumferential direction, and a wide portion wider in a radial direction than a groove width of the circular-arc portion. A facing surface of the movable scroll that faces the fixed scroll has a movable oil groove. The movable oil groove has a movable circumferential groove portion, and a radial groove portion that communicates with the movable circumferential groove portion. In a predetermined region of an angle range where the movable scroll makes an orbiting motion, a portion of the radial groove portion overlaps the wide portion as viewed from an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Katsumi KATOU, Yasuhiro MURAKAMI, Kazuhiko MATSUKAWA, Akira MORI, Eitarou NAKATANI, Yuuki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240162092
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of element structures in a form of matrix on a first surface of a semiconductor wafer; forming a crack extending in a thickness direction of the semiconductor wafer along a boundary between the element structures adjacent to each other by pressing a pressing member against a second surface of the semiconductor wafer opposite to the first surface along the boundary; and dividing the semiconductor wafer along the boundary by pressing a dividing member against the semiconductor wafer on a first surface side along the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji NAGUMO, Masashi UECHA, Masaru OKUDA, Masatake NAGAYA, Mitsuru KITAICHI, Akira MORI, Naoya KIYAMA, Masakazu TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240038590
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a quadrangular shape when viewed from above and having a front surface, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, and four side surfaces connecting the front surface and the rear surface. Each of the side surfaces has a step section in which a plurality of protruding portions and a plurality of recessed portions alternately and repeatedly appear along a direction in which a peripheral edge of the front surface of the semiconductor substrate extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: MASASHI UECHA, YUJI NAGUMO, MASARU OKUDA, MASATAKE NAGAYA, MITSURU KITAICHI, AKIRA MORI, NAOYA KIYAMA, MASAKAZU TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240038711
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a metal layer disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The metal layer includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The second metal layer covers a surface of the first metal layer and has a higher solder wettability than the first metal layer. The second metal layer is exposed on a main surface of the metal layer. The first metal layer is exposed on a side surface of the metal layer. The metal layer has a protruding portion on the main surface. The protruding portion extends to make one round along an outer peripheral edge of the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: TERUAKI KUMAZAWA, MASASHI UECHA, YUJI NAGUMO, MASARU OKUDA, MASATAKE NAGAYA, MITSURU KITAICHI, AKIRA MORI, NAOYA KIYAMA, MASAKAZU TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240030056
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes preparing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of element regions and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, forming a crack extending in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate along a boundary between the plurality of element regions by pressing a pressing member against the first surface of the semiconductor substrate along the boundary, forming a metal film over the plurality of element regions on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate after the forming of the crack, and dividing the semiconductor substrate and the metal film along the boundary by pressing a dividing member against the semiconductor substrate along the boundary from a direction facing the second surface of the semiconductor substrate after the forming of the metal film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: MASASHI UECHA, YUJI NAGUMO, MASARU OKUDA, MASATAKE NAGAYA, MITSURU KITAICHI, AKIRA MORI, NAOYA KIYAMA, MASAKAZU TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240006108
    Abstract: An actuator causes vibration of a movable body by a magnetic drive mechanism. The movable body includes: a support shaft having an outer circumferential surface fixed with a magnet; a cup-shaped first magnetic member fixed to an end surface of the magnet in an axial direction; and a second magnetic member fixed to an opposite side of an end plate of the first magnetic member from the side of the magnet. A weight adjustment section in the second magnetic member is a through hole. An outer shape of the second magnetic member is not reduced in size. A bent section of the first magnetic member overlaps an outer circumferential end of the second magnetic member. The weight adjustment section is provided on an inner circumferential side of an outer circumferential surface of the magnet. A magnetic member deficient portion is provided to avoid a portion with high magnetic flux density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira MORI
  • Patent number: 11843298
    Abstract: An actuator includes a support body, a movable body, a connection body connected with the support body and the movable body and provided with at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to relatively move the movable body with respect to the support body. The connection body is disposed in a space in a radial direction between an inner side ring-shaped part provided in one of the movable body and the support body and an outer side ring-shaped part provided in the other of the movable body and the support body. The inner side ring-shaped part, the outer side ring-shaped part and the connection body structure a partition part which partitions an inside space of the case, and the partition part includes an air passage which is penetrated through the partition part in an axial line direction so that air resistance can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Ando, Akira Mori
  • Patent number: 11802721
    Abstract: A heat source unit of a refrigerant cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a pipe, and a fixing member. The compressor includes two or three connection portions of a first connection portion connecting a suction pipe, a second connection portion connecting a discharge pipe, and a third connection portion connecting an injection pipe. The pipe includes a vertical portion. At least a part of the vertical portion extends vertically from each of the two or three connection portions. The fixing member fixes at least two of the vertical portions of two or three of the pipes of the suction pipe, the discharge pipe, and the injection pipe. Each of the connection portions of the pipes fixed by the fixing member is located on a first straight line as seen in a top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endou, Yasuo Mizushima, Akira Mori