Patents by Inventor Hideo Utsuno

Hideo Utsuno 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: 20190313921
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a pulse wave signal acquisition unit, a pulse wave velocity calculator, a transfer function calculator, a phase diagram classifier, and an aneurysm determinator. The pulse wave signal acquisition unit acquires time-series pulse wave signals of each of an upper arm and an ankle of the subject. The pulse wave velocity calculator obtains a brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity based on the pulse wave signal of the upper arm and the pulse wave signal of the ankle. The transfer function calculator calculates a transfer function from the pulse wave signal of the upper arm and the pulse wave signal of the ankle. The phase diagram classifier classifies the phase diagram of each subject into any one of four groups. The aneurysm determinator determines presence or absence of the abdominal aortic aneurysm by a criterion set according to each group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., A SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Miki IMAMURA, Yukiya SAWANOI, Toshihiko OGURA, Hideo UTSUNO, Kimihiko KICHIKAWA, Shigeo ICHIHASHI, Shinichi IWAKOSHI
  • Patent number: 10085650
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a detection device to detect a pulse wave signal at a first measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of a measurement subject to an area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur and a pulse wave signal at a second measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of the measurement subject to an area that is different from the area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur, a comparison device to calculate a comparison result by comparing frequency characteristics between the pulse wave signals, and a determination device to determine at least one of the presence/absence and size of an arterial aneurysm based on a predetermined characteristic amount for a frequency contained in the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Sato, Hideo Utsuno, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Keisuke Yamada, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Patent number: 9668658
    Abstract: A first calculation unit receives phase characteristics Pa(f) and Pb(f) outputted from frequency transform units, calculates a propagation time difference based on a phase difference between the two phase characteristics in a high-frequency component thereof, and calculates a pulse wave velocity by dividing a difference in the distances of vascular pathways from the heart to respective measurement areas. Meanwhile, a second calculation unit calculates a pulse wave velocity by dividing the stated difference in the distances by a appearance time difference at a predetermined position in respective pulse waveforms obtained by rendering the measurement signals Pa(t) and Pb(t) on a time axis. A comparison unit compares the pulse wave velocities, and in the case where the ratio thereof is outside a predetermined range, an evaluation result indicating that it is possible that a predetermined pathologic change is present in the vascular pathway is outputted to a display processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Sato, Naoki Mori, Tomoko Hashimoto, Toshihiko Ogura, Shozo Takamatsu, Hideo Utsuno, Kimihiko Kichikawa, Hirofumi Ito
  • Patent number: 9393691
    Abstract: An industrial robot system may enable a reduction in an installation/adjustment period, and an increase in a no-error continuous operation period. The system includes an action planning section for temporary halts, an error-inducing-task restraining section, a section for teaching task, an operation mastering section, a hand library, an optimum-task-operation generating section, a specific task library, an error-recovery-task teaching section, an error recovery library, a finger-eye-camera measurement section including an omnidirectional mirror, a three-dimensional recognition section, a controller, a manipulator, and a hand with a plurality of fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akio Noda, Haruhisa Okuda, Kenichi Tanaka, Tetsuo Sawaragi, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Yasuyoshi Yokokouji, Hideo Utsuno, Masaharu Komori, Hajime Mizuyama, Hiroaki Nakanishi, Yukio Horiguchi, Takehisa Kouda, Kazuhiro Izui
  • Publication number: 20140257117
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a detection device to detect a pulse wave signal at a first measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of a measurement subject to an area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur and a pulse wave signal at a second measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of the measurement subject to an area that is different from the area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur, a comparison device to calculate a comparison result by comparing frequency characteristics between the pulse wave signals, and a determination device to determine at least one of the presence/absence and size of an arterial aneurysm based on a predetermined characteristic amount for a frequency contained in the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Sato, Hideo Utsuno, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Keisuke Yamada, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Patent number: 8628476
    Abstract: A phase line tilt calculating unit (actual measurement) receives phase characteristics Pa(f) and Pb(f) outputted from frequency conversion units, and calculates phase difference characteristics of actual measurement based on a phase difference on each frequency component between the phase characteristics. A phase line tilt calculating unit (model) calculates phase difference characteristics between a transfer function Ga(f) and a transfer function Gb(f) calculated by a transfer function calculating unit, and outputs the calculated phase difference characteristics to a search unit. The search unit fits a variable k and determines a variable kopt (optimum solution) in which a tilt g(k) and a tilt gexp substantially match each other. The variable kopt is an index indicating a degree of arterial sclerosis of a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Utsuno, Shinya Umeda, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Hironori Sato, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Publication number: 20110288667
    Abstract: Provided is an industrial robot system which enables a reduction in an installation/adjustment period, and an increase in a no-error continuous operation period, and includes an action planning section (4) for temporary halts, an error-inducing-task restraining section (5), a section (6) for teaching task, an operation mastering section (7), a hand library (8), an optimum-task-operation generating section (11), a specific task library (9), an error-recovery-task teaching section (12), an error recovery library (10), a finger-eye-camera measurement section (32), a three-dimensional recognition section (33), a controller (30), a manipulator (31), and a universal hand contained in a manipulation device group (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Noda, Haruhisa Okuda, Kenichi Tanaka, Tetsuo Sawaragi, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Yasuyoshi Yokokouji, Hideo Utsuno, Masaharu Komori, Hajime Mizuyama, Hiroaki Nakanishi, Yukio Horiguchi, Takehisa Kouda, Kazuhiro Izui
  • Publication number: 20100121204
    Abstract: A phase line tilt calculating unit (actual measurement) receives phase characteristics Pa(f) and Pb(f) outputted from frequency conversion units, and calculates phase difference characteristics of actual measurement based on a phase difference on each frequency component between the phase characteristics. A phase line tilt calculating unit (model) calculates phase difference characteristics between a transfer function Ga(f) and a transfer function Gb(f) calculated by a transfer function calculating unit, and outputs the calculated phase difference characteristics to a search unit. The search unit fits a variable k and determines a variable kopt (optimum solution) in which a tilt g(k) and a tilt gexp substantially match each other. The variable kopt is an index indicating a degree of arterial sclerosis of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Utsuno, Shinya Umeda, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Toshihiko Ogura, Hironori Sato
  • Patent number: 7451843
    Abstract: Engine noise of a construction machine is effectively reduced without reducing cooling performance and with an increase in the height of a body cover kept minimum. To achieve the above, an air-intake opening portion (10) and an air discharge opening portion (11) are arranged in a body cover (8) of an upper rotating body (1), and a cooling fan (5) in an engine room covered by the body cover (8) is driven, taking cooling air in from the air-intake opening portion (10) to cool a heat exchanger (7) in the body cover (8) and discharging the air from the air discharge opening portion (11). The air-intake opening portion (10) is laterally offset from a position facing to a ventilation surface of the heat exchanger (7). Alternatively, plural air-intake opening portions are located in a scattered manner such that the plural air-intake opening portions include the offset air-intake opening portion offset from the ventilation surface of the heat exchanger (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakashima, Kazuhiro Ueda, Yasumasa Kimura, Hideo Utsuno, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20080257642
    Abstract: A perforated soundproof structure is formed by oppositely arranging an external plate 1 and an internal plate 2 having a number of through-holes 2a. The board thickness, hole diameter and open area ratio of the internal plate 2 are set to satisfy design conditions to give rise to a viscous effect in the air passing through the through-holes 2a, and the design conditions are set so that the frequency bandwidth to attain an absorption coefficient of 0.3 or more is 10% or more of the resonance frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamagiwa, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Hiroki Ueda, Hideo Utsuno, Toru Sakatani, Akio Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7434660
    Abstract: A perforated soundproof structure is formed by oppositely arranging an external plate 1 and an internal plate 2 having a number of through-holes 2a. The board thickness, hole diameter and open area ratio of the internal plate 2 are set to satisfy design conditions to give rise to a viscous effect in the air passing through the through-holes 2a, and the design conditions are set so that the frequency bandwidth to attain an absorption coefficient of 0.3 or more is 10% or more of the resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamagiwa, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Hiroki Ueda, Hideo Utsuno, Toru Sakatani, Akio Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20060144350
    Abstract: Engine noise of a construction machine is effectively reduced without reducing cooling performance and with an increase in the height of a body cover kept minimum. To achieve the above, an air-intake opening portion (10) and an air discharge opening portion (11) are arranged in a body cover (8) of an upper rotating body (1), and a cooling fan (5) in an engine room covered by the body cover (8) is driven, taking cooling air in from the air-intake opening portion (10) to cool a heat exchanger (7) in the body cover (8) and discharging the air from the air discharge opening portion (11). The air-intake opening portion (10) is laterally offset from a position facing to a ventilation surface of the heat exchanger (7). Alternatively, plural air-intake opening portions are located in a scattered manner such that the plural air-intake opening portions include the offset air-intake opening portion offset from the ventilation surface of the heat exchanger (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakashima, Kazuhiro Ueda, Yasumasa Kimura, Hideo Utsuno, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20040191474
    Abstract: A perforated soundproof structure is formed by oppositely arranging an external plate 1 and an internal plate 2 having a number of through-holes 2a. The board thickness, hole diameter and open area ratio of the internal plate 2 are set to satisfy design conditions to give rise to a viscous effect in the air passing through the through-holes 2a, and the design conditions are set so that the frequency bandwidth to attain an absorption coefficient of 0.3 or more is 10% or more of the resonance frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamagiwa, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Hiroki Ueda, Hideo Utsuno, Toru Sakatani, Akio Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 6045344
    Abstract: An oil-cooled type screw compressor capable of improving the oil separating efficiency is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Kobelco Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Noboru Tsuboi, Katsuyuki Suzuki, Hideo Utsuno, Yoshitaka Morisawa