Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Sakoda

Hideyuki Sakoda 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: 9937095
    Abstract: An exercise training apparatus attached to a trainee who performs a body exercise training, includes movable bodies, actuators, sensors and a processor. The movable bodies each having a fixed member which a part of a trainee's body is fixed to and exercising a trainee's extremities by rotating around shafts, respectively. The sensors each detecting a physical quantity that changes depending on force applied to the fixed members by a trainee. The processor, in response to a detection of a predetermined change in a physical quantity by the sensors, driving the actuators, rotating the movable bodies in a first direction and successively rotating the movable bodies in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, JAPAN
    Inventors: Kenji Hachisuka, Futoshi Wada, Taiji Oda, Yoshie Nakanishi, Ikuo Yamamoto, Takunori Tsuji, Hideyuki Sakoda
  • Publication number: 20150133828
    Abstract: An exercise training apparatus 10 attached to a trainee who performs a body exercise training, includes movable bodies 11, 12, actuators 13, 14, change detecting means 15, 16 and a controlling means 25, the movable bodies 11, 12 having fixed members 11a, 12a which a part of a trainee's body is fixed to and exercising a trainee's extremities by rotating around shafts 19, 22, respectively, the change detecting means 15, 16 each detecting a physical quantity that changes depending on force applied to the fixed members 11a, 12a by a trainee, the controlling means 25, in response to a detection of a predetermined change in a physical quantity by the change detecting means 15, 16, driving the actuators 13, 14, rotating the movable bodies 11, 12 in a first direction and successively rotating the movable bodies 11, 12 in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, JAPAN
    Inventors: Kenji Hachisuka, Futoshi Wada, Taiji Oda, Yoshie Nakanishi, Ikuo Yamamoto, Takunori Tsuji, Hideyuki Sakoda