Patents by Inventor Akira Takahashi

Akira Takahashi 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: 9969384
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if an ego vehicle spins slowly. The invention computes a relative slip angle between a leading vehicle and the ego vehicle on the basis of distance between the ego vehicle and the leading vehicle and distance between a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in a traveling direction and the leading vehicle, sets a spin judgment threshold value according to the relative slip angle, and controls yaw moment to reduce the relative slip angle when the relative slip angle exceeds the spin judgment threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Jun Kubo
  • Publication number: 20180064006
    Abstract: A component mounting machine includes a feeder device that has a tape feeding mechanism that feeds out a carrier tape that stores components in respective component storage sections, and a tape peeling mechanism that has a tape peeling blade that carries out peeling, and a component transfer device that has a mounting head that holds a suction nozzle, and a head driving mechanism, the component mounting machine further provided with a peeling start determination section of determining whether or not the peeling starts before the suction nozzle starts a suction operation, and a recovery function section of carrying out a recovery operation in which the recovery function section returns the leading end of the carrier tape temporarily to the front of the tape peeling blade and feeds out the carrier tape again in a case where it is determined that peeling is not started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Toshimitsu HONDA
  • Publication number: 20180061850
    Abstract: A mesa structure is formed over peripheral devices on a substrate. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over the substrate and the mesa structure. A region of the alternating stack overlying the mesa structure is removed to provide a region in which the layers in the alternating stack extend along a non-horizontal direction that is parallel to the dielectric sidewall of the mesa structure. Memory stack structures and backside contact via structures are formed through another region of the alternating stack that includes horizontally-extending portions of the layers within the alternating stack. The spacer material layers are provided as, or are replaced with, electrically conductive layers. Top surfaces of portions of the electrically conductive layers that extend parallel to the dielectric sidewall of the mesa structure can be contacted by word line contact via structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Shogo MADA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Motoki UMEYAMA
  • Patent number: 9905573
    Abstract: A mesa structure is formed over peripheral devices on a substrate. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over the substrate and the mesa structure. A region of the alternating stack overlying the mesa structure is removed to provide a region in which the layers in the alternating stack extend along a non-horizontal direction that is parallel to the dielectric sidewall of the mesa structure. Memory stack structures and backside contact via structures are formed through another region of the alternating stack that includes horizontally-extending portions of the layers within the alternating stack. The spacer material layers are provided as, or are replaced with, electrically conductive layers. Top surfaces of portions of the electrically conductive layers that extend parallel to the dielectric sidewall of the mesa structure can be contacted by word line contact via structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Shogo Mada, Akira Takahashi, Motoki Umeyama
  • Publication number: 20180054929
    Abstract: A feeder device including a tape feeding mechanism which feeds out a carrier tape which stores components in corresponding multiple component storage sections and a cover tape which is adhered to the bottom tape and covers the component storage sections, and a tape peeling mechanism which includes a tape peeling blade which proceeds between the bottom tape and the cover tape as the carrier tape is fed out to perform peeling, the feeder device supplying the components from the component storage sections at a component supply position, and the feeder device further including a feed speed determination section which determines the feed speed at a peeling start time at which a leading end of the carrier tape comes into contact with the tape peeling blade according to at least one of properties of multiple types of carrier tape and characteristics of the components which are stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro SUGIMOTO, Akira TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9895985
    Abstract: A charging inlet lid structure of a vehicle includes a normal charging inlet and a quick charging inlet in a recess portion for charging, and a first lid and a second lid for the recess portion. One of the normal charging inlet and the quick charging inlet is provided at one side of the recess portion and the other of the normal charging inlet and the quick charging inlet is provided at the other side of the recess portion. The first lid and the second lid are provided so as to slide from totally closed positions where the first lid and the second lid totally close the recess portion in directions in which the first lid and the second lid move away from each other and can be opened and closed independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Yusuke Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20180042151
    Abstract: A groove for allowing passing of a component storage section during conveyance of a carrier tape having the component storage section protruding is formed in a tape conveyance path of a feeder. The groove is provided with a tape lower face biasing member which is pressed by the lower face of the carrier tape and is deformed downward when the carrier tape has the component storage section protruding until the carrier tape inserted from a tape insertion section reaches a rear side sprocket, and biases the lower face of the carrier tape when the carrier tape has the component storage section not protruding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu OHASHI, Koichiro SUGIMOTO, Akira TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180027709
    Abstract: When a board to be produced is switched, it is possible to automatically discharge an unnecessary carrier tape 100 without detaching a feeder. For this, a control device 15 of a component mounting apparatus 10 includes: a component determination section S106 which determines a component not to be used in production of the next board when boards to be produced by the component mounting apparatus 10 are switched, and a discharge instruction section 110 which sends an instruction of discharging a carrier tape 100 which accommodates a component determined not to be used in the production of the next board by the component determination section S106 to a tape insertion port 21d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro SUGIMOTO, Akira TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180009719
    Abstract: A porous fired granulated body is formed by consolidating numerous alumina particles to each other while letting mainly interconnected pores remain in network form across an entire cross section of a granulated body particle (11). The pores (13) have an inner diameter controlled by a droplet diameter of a pore forming agent and have numerous precipitated alumina crystals (15) formed on inner surfaces thereof. Manufacture is performed by spraying the pore forming agent (emulsion) onto a raw material to form a coating layer of the pore forming agent on a surface of the raw material particle and controlling the inner diameter of the pores. A porous fired granulated body of alumina having a high specific surface area and having higher strength for the same specific surface area can thus be provided by a simple manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Junya Shimosato, Takahiko Nakamura, Noriyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 9840094
    Abstract: There is provided a bobbin for a thermal transfer sheet or an image-receiving sheet which can reduce the number of parts and can have a smooth surface. The bobbin includes a cylindrical bobbin body 11. A gear 12 including a number of teeth 13 is formed in one end surface of the bobbin body 11. The teeth 13 of the gear 12 each have the shape of a trapezoid when viewed from the side. One lateral side 13b of the trapezoid extends in the axial direction of the bobbin body 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeta Mori, Munenori Ieshige, Akira Takahashi, Yuichi Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9842754
    Abstract: In the present invention, a substrate is placed at a predetermined position on a substrate support even though the substrate is deviated on a substrate transfer unit. There is provided a substrate processing apparatus that includes a process chamber, a transfer chamber accommodating a substrate transfer unit, a substrate detecting unit, a memory unit configured to store a first reference position information, a second reference position information and a substrate reference position information and a controller configured to generate a detected position information representing a position of a substrate being transferred in the transfer chamber based on a detection result and to control the substrate transfer unit to place the substrate based on the detected position information, the first reference position information, the substrate reference position information and a difference between the first reference position information and the second reference position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Takeshi Yasui, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Kazuya Nabeta, Naoya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9829834
    Abstract: A flywheel includes a rotation shaft, a flywheel body, and a protruding body. A first end of the rotation shaft is supported by a rotating body. The flywheel body is provided at a second end of the rotation shaft and rotates together with the rotation shaft. The protruding body protrudes from a surface at a rotating-body side of the flywheel body and extends in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Iwamoto, Kazuyoshi Hagiwara, Akira Takahashi, Mihoko Tanaka, Arichika Tanaka, Yusuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 9818630
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a first reaction chamber including: a first heating unit, a first processing space, and a first transfer space disposed under the first processing space, a second reaction chamber including: a second heating unit, a second processing space, and a second transfer space disposed under the second processing space; a first sidewall and a second sidewall defining the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, wherein the first sidewall is shared by the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, and a cooling channel disposed in the first sidewall and the second sidewall such that a cooling efficiency of the first sidewall is higher than that of the second sidewall, wherein the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber are disposed adjacent to each other with the first sidewall therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuyuki Toyoda
  • Patent number: 9796422
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system capable of securing stability even in the event of a collision with a travel-path defining line such as a guardrail. The invention recognizes the travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area in a traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and imparts a yaw moment control amount so that a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line decreases after the ego vehicle collides with the travel-path defining line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Jun Kubo, Mitsuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9787218
    Abstract: A driving circuit is a circuit selectively outputting one of a staircase wave and a square wave from an output terminal, to drive a capacitive load, and includes a first power source supplying a constant voltage VH, a first FET connected between the output terminal and the first power source, a first transformer in which an output side coil is connected to a gate of the first FET, a first input terminal connected to an input side coil of the first transformer via a capacitive element, a second power source supplying a constant voltage VL, a second FET connected between the output terminal and the second power source, a second transformer in which an output side coil is connected to a gate of the second FET, and a second input terminal connected to an input side coil of the second transformer via a capacitive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Yamagishi, Masatoshi Fujimoto, Akira Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170261889
    Abstract: A flywheel includes a rotation shaft, a flywheel body, and a protruding body. A first end of the rotation shaft is supported by a rotating body. The flywheel body is provided at a second end of the rotation shaft and rotates together with the rotation shaft. The protruding body protrudes from a surface at a rotating-body side of the flywheel body and extends in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro IWAMOTO, Kazuyoshi HAGIWARA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Mihoko TANAKA, Arichika TANAKA, Yusuke SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9751048
    Abstract: The present application discloses a dehumidifying device including a base configured to define an inlet channel for first air flow, and an outlet channel for second air flow less humid than the first; and a first dehumidifier including a first inlet and outlet in communication with the inlet and outlet channel, and configured to dehumidify the first air between the first inlet and the first outlet to generate the second air. The base includes a first base portion configured to define first inlet and outlet regions for the first and second air flows; and a second base portion configured to define second inlet and outlet regions in communication with the first inlet and outlet regions. The first and second inlet regions form at least a part of the inlet channel. The first and second outlet regions form at least a part of the outlet channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Mizufune, Masaru Kuromitsu, Akira Takahashi, Tatsuo Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 9727007
    Abstract: A rotary device includes a rotary shaft, a rotary body that is supported by the rotary shaft, and rotates about the rotary shaft, and at least one plate-like member having a central point that serves as a center of rotation when the plate-like member rotates, the plate-like member having an outer peripheral portion, the plate-like member including at least one cutout formed by cutting out the outer peripheral portion of the plate-like member at positions that are symmetric with respect to a straight line passing through the central point, the plate-like member being secured to the rotary shaft to rotate together with the rotary body as the rotary shaft rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mihoko Tanaka, Kazuyoshi Hagiwara, Yusuke Sakai, Akira Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170217923
    Abstract: Methods of treating disorders using compounds that modulate striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (STEP) are described herein. Exemplary disorders include schizophrenia and cognitive deficit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Masaki Suzuki, Kazumi Kondo, Muneaki Kurimura, Krishna Reddy Valluru, Akira Takahashi, Takeshi Kuroda, Haruka Takahashi, Tae Fukushima, Shin Miyamura, Indranath Ghosh, Abhishek Dogra, Geraldine Harriman, Amy Elder, Satoshi Shimizu, Kevin J. Hodgetts, Jason S. Newcom
  • Publication number: 20170221738
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a first reaction chamber including: a first heating unit, a first processing space, and a first transfer space disposed under the first processing space, a second reaction chamber including: a second heating unit, a second processing space, and a second transfer space disposed under the second processing space; a first sidewall and a second sidewall defining the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, wherein the first sidewall is shared by the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, and a cooling channel disposed in the first sidewall and the second sidewall such that a cooling efficiency of the first sidewall is higher than that of the second sidewall, wherein the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber are disposed adjacent to each other with the first sidewall therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Kazuyuki TOYODA