Patents by Inventor Atsushi Harada
Atsushi Harada 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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Publication number: 20240359590Abstract: A power supply includes a DC-to-DC converter that charges a storage battery and a controller that controls the charging of the storage battery. The power supply has operating modes including a constant-voltage mode where the storage battery is charged at a constant voltage and a current-limiting mode where the storage battery is charged with an upper limit specified for charging current for the storage battery. The controller includes a first control block that controls the constant-voltage mode, a second control block that controls the current-limiting mode, and a conduction ratio command computer that computes a conduction ratio command. The second control block includes a primary lag block that allows a signal to go through for input to the conduction ratio command computer upon an operating mode switchover from the constant-voltage mode to the current-limiting mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi OKA, Ryotaro HARADA
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Publication number: 20240344857Abstract: A flow rate measurement system being a flow rate measurement system that measures a flow rate of molten metal flowing through a hollow portion of a pipe includes an excitation coil that generates a magnetic field so as to intersect with the molten metal flowing through the hollow portion of the pipe; current supply processor circuitry that supplies an alternating exciting current to the excitation coil; a detector that detects a signal based on a magnetic field generated from the excitation coil by an alternating exciting current flowing through the excitation coil or a time variation in the magnetic field; and flow rate deriving processor circuitry that derives the flow rate of the molten metal based on the signal detected by the detector, wherein the pipe is arranged between the excitation coil and the detector, and a magnetic field that reaches the detector across the pipe is generated from the excitation coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji UMETSU, Atsushi SUGIHASHI, Hiroshi HARADA
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Publication number: 20240278547Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a gas barrier paper packaging material which can impart sufficient gas barrier properties even when a barrier coating agent for forming a barrier layer is applied in a dry amount of 2 g/m2 or less. The method for producing a gas barrier paper packaging material at least includes: a barrier layer forming step of applying a barrier coating agent to one side of a sealant film to form a barrier layer; and a lamination step of laminating the barrier layer and a paper substrate layer via an adhesive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Genta ITO, Hiroki TANAKA, Kyohei KOBAYASHI, Atsushi FUJITA, Junichi HARADA
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Publication number: 20240266351Abstract: A semiconductor device includes, on an n-type semiconductor substrate, a power transistor, an n-type transistor, and a p-type transistor on a laminated semiconductor substrate that laminates an n-type drift layer, a p-type; the power transistor has a trench gate electrode penetrating through the base layer; the p-type transistor is formed in an n-type well region formed in the base layer, and the n-type transistor is formed in a p-type well region further formed in the base layer or n-type well region; and a p-type impurity concentration of the buried channel region of the p-type transistor is equal to a p-type impurity concentration of the base layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Mitsuo OKAMOTO, Atsushi YAO, Hiroshi SATO, Shinsuke HARADA
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Publication number: 20230157613Abstract: An electrocardiographic detection device for a vehicle includes: a steering wheel electrode provided at a lower layer of a covering material that covers a surface of a steering wheel; a steering wheel electrode provided at a lower layer of the covering material of the steering wheel and an insulating material of a predetermined thickness; a waveform generator detecting a differential voltage between the steering wheel electrode and a ground region; a waveform generator detecting a differential voltage between the steering wheel electrode and a ground region; and a signal processing section that generates an electrocardiographic signal on the basis of the differential voltage detected at the waveform generator and the differential voltage detected at the waveform generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Masaki KUNUGITA, Yusuke YAMANAKA, Atsushi HARADA
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Patent number: 11135724Abstract: A jig according to the present disclosure includes N planes (N is an integer equal to or larger than 4) respectively attached with patterns, in which ?90°<?<90°??(1) 0?0??(2) where ? is an angle formed by, with respect to a reference normal vector perpendicular to a jig reference plane, the jig reference plane being one plane among the N planes, and having a direction from the jig reference plane toward a space in which the stereo camera is disposed, a non-reference normal vector perpendicular to a non-reference plane different from the jig reference plane among the N planes and having a direction from the non-reference plane toward the space in which the stereo camera is disposed. Non-reference normal vectors corresponding to N?1 non-reference planes among the N planes have directions different from one another with respect to the reference normal vector and do not have directions symmetrical with respect to the reference normal vector.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Inventor: Atsushi Harada
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Publication number: 20210303721Abstract: The data management server (10) includes a data acquirer (113) and an individual metadata generator (114a). The data acquirer (113) acquires main data including a plurality of pieces of device data. The individual metadata generator (114a) generates individual metadata including target data information and process information. The target data information indicates, as target data, one or more of the plurality of pieces of device data included in the main data. The process information is associated with a process performed on the target data indicated by the target data information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Atsushi HARADA, Masato NAGASAWA
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Publication number: 20210034470Abstract: A data processing device (100) is connected to a backup storage (50) used for a backup of data and to a restore test storage (60) used for a restore test on the data backed up. A backup execution section (B-04) stores in the backup storage (50), a plurality of pieces of test divided data selected as restore test targets from among a plurality of pieces of divided data divided from backup-targeted data in a smaller size than a storage size of the restore test storage (60). A restore test execution section (C-05) repeats an operation of storing test divided data from the backup storage (50) into the restore test storage (60) and performs the restore test on the plurality of pieces of test divided data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuya ISHIZU, Atsushi HARADA
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Publication number: 20200122332Abstract: A jig according to the present disclosure includes N planes (N is an integer equal to or larger than 4) respectively attached with patterns, in which ?90°<?<90°??(1) 0?0??(2) where ? is an angle formed by, with respect to a reference normal vector perpendicular to a jig reference plane, the jig reference plane being one plane among the N planes, and having a direction from the jig reference plane toward a space in which the stereo camera is disposed, a non-reference normal vector perpendicular to a non-reference plane different from the jig reference plane among the N planes and having a direction from the non-reference plane toward the space in which the stereo camera is disposed. Non-reference normal vectors corresponding to N?1 non-reference planes among the N planes have directions different from one another with respect to the reference normal vector and do not have directions symmetrical with respect to the reference normal vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventor: Atsushi HARADA
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Patent number: 10551821Abstract: A robot includes a movable part, and the movable part performs an action based on a position of a first marker obtained using first position and attitude of the movable part when a first image containing the first marker is captured by an imaging unit provided in the movable part and second position and attitude of the movable part when a second image containing the first marker is captured by the imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Taro Ishige, Atsushi Harada
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Patent number: 10525597Abstract: A robot includes an instruction receiving unit that receives a calibration initiation instruction, and an arm that changes a positional relationship between a marker which indicates a reference point and a capturing unit when the calibration initiation instruction is received, in which the calibration of a coordinate system of the capturing unit and a coordinate system of the robot is performed on the basis of an image in which the marker is captured by the capturing unit after the positional relationship between the capturing unit and the marker changes.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Harada, Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Taro Ishige, Koichi Yasuda, Kazushige Akaha
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Patent number: 10201900Abstract: A control device is capable of controlling each of a robot having a robot arm, and an imaging portion which is capable of capturing a first reference marker, a second reference marker, and a third reference marker, any one of the imaging portion, the first reference marker, the second reference marker, and the third reference marker is provided in the robot, and a posture of a reference surface parallel to a plane which passes through the first reference marker, the second reference marker, and the third reference marker, is acquired based on a first image in which the first reference marker is captured by the imaging portion, a second image in which the second reference marker is captured by the imaging portion, and a third image which captures the third reference marker by the imaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Taro Ishige, Atsushi Harada, Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Hiromitsu Abe
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Patent number: 10195744Abstract: A control device controls a robot including an arm, an end effector provided in the arm, and a force detector provided in the arm and configured to detect force. After bringing a first portion of the end effector close to a work surface and detecting contact of the first portion and the work surface on the basis of an output from the force detector, the control device brings a second portion of the end effector different from the first portion close to the work surface, detects contact of the second portion and the work surface on the basis of an output from the force detector, and teaches the robot a position of the end effector with respect to the work surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Harada, Kenji Onda
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Publication number: 20180323949Abstract: In order to provide feedback information of a transmission acknowledgement signal or the like appropriately even in change in DL/UL configuration in TDD, a radio base station that communicates with a user terminal by time division duplex that is capable of controlling change in DL/UL configuration is provided. The user terminal includes a receiver that receives information to change a DL/UL configuration in time division duplex, receives higher layer signaling including first information about HARQ feedback timing, and receives downlink control information including second information about the HARQ feedback timing. The user terminal determines the HARQ feedback timing for a downlink shared channel based on the first information and the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
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Patent number: 10099380Abstract: A robot includes: a local coordinate system deriving portion which derives a local coordinate system having two shafts which are parallel to a work plane and orthogonal to each other, based on an image in which markers illustrating three or more points on the work plane which is not horizontal are captured; and a control parameter obtaining portion which obtains control parameters via the local coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Taro Ishige, Atsushi Harada, Yukihiro Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180243911Abstract: A robot includes an instruction receiving unit that receives a calibration initiation instruction, and an arm that changes a positional relationship between a marker which indicates a reference point and a capturing unit when the calibration initiation instruction is received, in which the calibration of a coordinate system of the capturing unit and a coordinate system of the robot is performed on the basis of an image in which the marker is captured by the capturing unit after the positional relationship between the capturing unit and the marker changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Atsushi HARADA, Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI, Taro ISHIGE, Koichi YASUDA, Kazushige AKAHA
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Patent number: 9967861Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink resource scheduling method, a wireless base station and a mobile station. The method comprises: generating group dedicated signaling respectively for mobile station groups managed by the wireless base station, wherein group dedicated signaling of each mobile station group indicates uplink resources allocated to the mobile station group; multiplexing the generated group dedicated signaling into different positions of a first channel and transmitting the multiplexed group dedicated signaling; generating mobile station dedicated signaling for each mobile station in each of the mobile station groups, wherein the mobile station dedicated signaling at least includes group information indicating the mobile station group to which the mobile station belongs; and multiplexing the generated mobile station dedicated signaling into a second channel and transmitting the multiplexed mobile station dedicated signaling.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Xiaohang Chen, Anxin Li, Atsushi Harada
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Patent number: 9960875Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base station, a communication system and a method thereof. The communication system includes three base stations adjacent to each other, and each base station serves at least one UE. The method includes: acquiring, by each base station, a channel matrix of a channel from the base station to an adjacent base station; calculating an interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix for each base station based on the channel matrices of the channels between the base stations; and precoding, by each base station, data to be transmitted with the interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada, Hidetoshi Kayama
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Publication number: 20180004188Abstract: A robot includes a movable part, and the movable part performs an action based on a position of a first marker obtained using first position and attitude of the movable part when a first image containing the first marker is captured by an imaging unit provided in the movable part and second position and attitude of the movable part when a second image containing the first marker is captured by the imaging unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI, Taro ISHIGE, Atsushi HARADA
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Patent number: 9839029Abstract: A radio base station capable of reducing the impact of interference and improving the efficiency of the use of radio resources even when different DL/UL configurations are employed between neighboring transmitting/receiving points is disclosed. The radio base station can communicate with user terminals via time division duplex and is able to change and control DL/UL configurations, has a subframe type determining section that classifies subframes into fixed subframes or flexible subframes, in accordance with the relationship between the DL/UL configurations that are employed in the radio base station and the DL/UL configurations that are employed in other radio base stations, and a frequency allocation control section that applies mutually different frequency allocation methods to the fixed subframes and the flexible subframes.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Xiaolin Hou, Chongning Na, Atsushi Harada