Patents by Inventor Hiromichi Fujimoto
Hiromichi Fujimoto 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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Patent number: 10543143Abstract: A server of a gait data management system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains a first sensor value obtained when a walker walks with assistance from a walking assistance device; an accumulating unit that accumulates the first sensor value, and the walking assistance device includes: an actuator that drives a joint; a storage unit that stores a walk algorithm that is for determining a drive level of the actuator and is generated through statistical processing on a gait value indicating walking characteristics and calculated from the first sensor value accumulated in the accumulating unit; a sensor that obtains a second sensor value obtained when the walker walks with assistance from the walking assistance device; a control unit that determines the drive level of the actuator according to the second sensor value using the walk algorithm; and a transmitting unit that transmits the second sensor value to the server.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhisa Asano, Motoki Nakano, Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10166679Abstract: A movement assistance device includes: a back plate that is fitted onto the back of a wearer; a back frame that has an elongated shape and is supported by a rotating shaft fixed to the back plate so as to be rotatable in a plane parallel to the back plate; a side frame that is rotatably supported by a rotating shaft fixed to the back frame and parallel to the longitudinal direction of the back frame and extends from the back frame toward the vicinity of the side waist of the wearer; a thigh holding portion that is fitted onto the anterior thigh of the wearer; and a drive portion that is connected to each of the side frame and the thigh holding portion and generates force that increases the angle between the side frame and the thigh holding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroki Tanibayashi, Makoto Konishi, Hiromichi Fujimoto, Takuo Wariishi
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Patent number: 9938002Abstract: A vertical takeoff and landing transport plane is characterized in that a structure formed in the top-bottom direction of an airframe penetrates a rear structure of the vertical takeoff and landing transport plane in order to let a tailwind escape, and characterized by comprising, in the rear structure of the vertical takeoff and landing transport plane, a device for generating thrust rearward behind the rear on the top side of the airframe from the bottom of the airframe.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Inventor: Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20170252255Abstract: A server of a gait data management system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains a first sensor value obtained when a walker walks with assistance from a walking assistance device; an accumulating unit that accumulates the first sensor value, and the walking assistance device includes: an actuator that drives a joint; a storage unit that stores a walk algorithm that is for determining a drive level of the actuator and is generated through statistical processing on a gait value indicating walking characteristics and calculated from the first sensor value accumulated in the accumulating unit; a sensor that obtains a second sensor value obtained when the walker walks with assistance from the walking assistance device; a control unit that determines the drive level of the actuator according to the second sensor value using the walk algorithm; and a transmitting unit that transmits the second sensor value to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Katsuhisa ASANO, Motoki NAKANO, Hiromichi FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 9738434Abstract: Conventional sheet storage boxes have problems that the sheet storage box with a sheet-fixing sheet pasted on the sheet-removing opening is wasteful from the point of view of resources and that, in the case of the sheet storage box without the sheet-fixing sheet pasted on the opening, the fixing of sheet becomes weaker as the opening itself becomes larger due to the excessively wide rim of the opening and when the rims of the opening are made too close, the rim of the opening partially becomes smaller and the resistance to remove the sheets becomes too large.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Inventor: Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20170232617Abstract: A movement assistance device includes: a back plate that is fitted onto the back of a wearer; a back frame that has an elongated shape and is supported by a rotating shaft fixed to the back plate so as to be rotatable in a plane parallel to the back plate; a side frame that is rotatably supported by a rotating shaft fixed to the back frame and parallel to the longitudinal direction of the back frame and extends from the back frame toward the vicinity of the side waist of the wearer; a thigh holding portion that is fitted onto the anterior thigh of the wearer; and a drive portion that is connected to each of the side frame and the thigh holding portion and generates force that increases the angle between the side frame and the thigh holding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Hiroki TANIBAYASHI, Makoto KONISHI, Hiromichi FUJIMOTO, Takuo WARIISHI
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Publication number: 20170225322Abstract: A movement assistance device includes: a hanging portion configured to be able to move a connecting end at least horizontally; a power assisted suit that assists a movement of an operator, and includes a fitting portion that is fitted onto an upper part of the torso of the operator, a pair of arm units that is provided along the arms of the operator from around the shoulders of the operator and generates supplementary power for assisting a movement of the arms of the operator following the movement, and a movement control portion that moves the hanging portion horizontally; and a suspension member that connects the connecting end of the hanging portion and the fitting portion of the power assisted suit and hangs the power assisted suit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Takuo WARIISHI, Hiromichi FUJIMOTO, Makoto KONISHI
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Publication number: 20160331486Abstract: A working posture holding device (10) includes: a lower back holding part (11) that holds a lower back of a user; a leg part (12a) that supports the lower back holding part, the leg part being rotatably connected to the lower back holding part, the leg part extending along a leg region of the user; a foot part (13a) that is connected to the leg part, the foot part contacting a ground to support the overall working posture holding device; a fixing part (14a) that fixes the leg part and the user to each other; and a locking mechanism (15a) that switches a state of the leg part between a “variable” state where a distance between a connection part to the lower back holding part and a connection part to the foot part is variable, and a “locked” state where the distance is fixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Kazuhiro NAKATANI, Makoto KONISHI, Hiromichi FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20160331623Abstract: A lower extremity support tool includes: a right and a left foot parts, a right and a left leg parts, a lower back part disposed in an area of a lower back of the user, the lower back part rotatably supporting individually each of the right and the left leg parts, the lower back part including a right and a left motors each causing one of the right and the left leg parts to normally rotate or reversely rotate; and a control part that controls the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of each of the the right and the left motors in the lower back part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Kazuhiro NAKATANI, Makoto KONISHI, Hiromichi FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 9320636Abstract: A support device includes: a force measurement sensor structure which includes a shaft having first and second end sections, an intermediate element movably provided between the first and second end sections, first and second elastic members respectively provided between the first end section and the intermediate element and between the second end section and the intermediate element, a linear potentiometer detecting the one dimensional direction position of the intermediate element, and a gripping unit transmitting a force to the intermediate element in an interlocking manner with movement of upper or lower limb; a drive unit changing a load applied to the intermediate element; a control unit controlling the drive unit; and a wearable unit including a front frame provided on a front side of a user, a rear frame connected to the front frame, provided on a rear side of the user, and supporting the drive unit, and an arm suspending a wire which connects the force measurement sensor structure and the drive unit,Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Go Shirogauchi, Hiromichi Fujimoto, Yoshiaki Ueda, Makoto Konishi
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Publication number: 20150190261Abstract: A support device includes: a force measurement sensor structure which includes a shaft having first and second end sections, an intermediate element movably provided between the first and second end sections, first and second elastic members respectively provided between the first end section and the intermediate element and between the second end section and the intermediate element, a linear potentiometer detecting the one dimensional direction position of the intermediate element, and a gripping unit transmitting a force to the intermediate element in an interlocking manner with movement of upper or lower limb; a drive unit changing a load applied to the intermediate element; a control unit controlling the drive unit; and a wearable unit including a front frame provided on a front side of a user, a rear frame connected to the front frame, provided on a rear side of the user, and supporting the drive unit, and an arm suspending a wire which connects the force measurement sensor structure and the drive unit,Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Go Shirogauchi, Hiromichi Fujimoto, Yoshiaki Ueda, Makoto Konishi
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Publication number: 20150191243Abstract: A vertical takeoff and landing transport plane is characterized in that a structure formed in the top-bottom direction of an airframe penetrates a rear structure of the vertical takeoff and landing transport plane in order to let a tailwind escape, and characterized by comprising, in the rear structure of the vertical takeoff and landing transport plane, a device for generating thrust rearward behind the rear on the top side of the airframe from the bottom of the airframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventor: Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20150158342Abstract: The use of the tire support during tire puncture is such that the size of a ground-contacting section of the outer diameter of the tire support is close to the size of the outer diameter of the space within the tire, the connection strength of tire support sections is maintained, the use of the tire support is easy, and a level difference resulting from the gap at the joint formed between tire supports is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventor: Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20150069081Abstract: Conventional sheet storage boxes have problems that the sheet storage box with a sheet-fixing sheet pasted on the sheet-removing opening is wasteful from the point of view of resources and that, in the case of the sheet storage box without the sheet-fixing sheet pasted on the opening, the fixing of sheet becomes weaker as the opening itself becomes larger due to the excessively wide rim of the opening and when the rims of the opening are made too close, the rim of the opening partially becomes smaller and the resistance to remove the sheets becomes too large.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventor: Hiromichi FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 8425438Abstract: A motion assist apparatus is provided with an attaching member that has a glove shape with finger portions and a middle hand portion that is attachable to one of hands of a user, a back-side actuator that is freely expanded and contracted, and bridged between a tip of each of the finger portions and the middle hand portion on the back side of the attaching member, and a palm-side actuator that is freely expanded and contracted, and bridged between the tip of each of the finger portions and the middle hand portion on the palm side of the attaching member, and in this structure, the palm-side actuator is provided with a wire unit formed of two wires that are disposed on each of the finger portions on the palm side from the tip of each of the finger portions on the back side to the middle hand portion along the finger portion, passing through two side portions of the finger portion, so that intervals therebetween are made different at respective positions corresponding to joints of the finger portion, and rubberType: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Activelink Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Fujimoto, Go Shirogauchi, Keisuke Ueda, Motoshi Hori, Tatsuro Mizutani
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Publication number: 20120228323Abstract: A sheet storage box has a sheet-removing opening effectively forming the portion to remove the sheet easily from the opening and a portion to easily catch the sheet wherein, the shape of the rims of the opening of the sheet storage box designed to remove the sheet is formed in such a way that the movement of the sheet is reduced by adequately reducing the spatial area of the opening and the rims of the opening are converted to convex shape smooth curves to smoothly slide the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventor: Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20100249675Abstract: A motion assist apparatus is provided with an attaching member that has a glove shape with finger portions and a middle hand portion that is attachable to one of hands of a user, a back-side actuator that is freely expanded and contracted, and bridged between a tip of each of the finger portions and the middle hand portion on the back side of the attaching member, and a palm-side actuator that is freely expanded and contracted, and bridged between the tip of each of the finger portions and the middle hand portion on the palm side of the attaching member, and in this structure, the palm-side actuator is provided with a wire unit formed of two wires that are disposed on each of the finger portions on the palm side from the tip of each of the finger portions on the back side to the middle hand portion along the finger portion, passing through two side portions of the finger portion, so that intervals therebetween are made different at respective positions corresponding to joints of the finger portion, and rubberType: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: ACTIVELINK CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromichi Fujimoto, Go Shirogauchi, Keisuke Ueda, Motoshi Hori, Tatsuro Mizutani
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Publication number: 20090276058Abstract: A movement assisting device including a plurality of attachments to be attached over a joint of a user; an actuator suspended between the plurality of attachments; a sensor, attached to the user, for detecting movement of a muscle; and a control unit for controlling the actuator based on the movement of the muscle detected by the sensor is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventors: Keisuke Ueda, Hiromichi Fujimoto, Go Shirogauchi
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Patent number: 6387294Abstract: A magnet having a maximum energy product at 20° C. of 18 MGOe or more, and an extremely excellent magnetic performance is obtained. A magnet stable in the magnetic performance in practical temperature range is obtained. A magnet having an excellent recycling performance is obtained. A magnet motor using such rare earth resin magnet generates a potent static magnetic field in the space with the armature core. The motor output is enhanced, and the current consumption is lowered. The rare earth resin magnet comprises at least one resin of thermoplastic resin and thermoplastic elastomer, pentaerythritol stearic acid triester, and rare earth magnetic powder. The rare earth magnetic powder, resin, and pentaerythritol stearic acid triester form a mutually mixed resin magnet composition, and this resin magnet composition has a predetermined shape. A magnet rotor has this rare earth resin magnet.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumitoshi Yamashita, Yoshikazu Yamagata, Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Patent number: D781430Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Konishi, Takuo Wariishi, Hiroki Tanibayashi, Hiroshi Kanchiku, Hiromichi Fujimoto