Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Usui

Hiroshi Usui 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: 11961687
    Abstract: A push switch includes a case having a housing space with an upper opening, fixed contacts provided at a bottom of the housing space in the case, a movable contact member having a dome-shaped member, the movable contact member being disposed in the housing space, and having a central portion that is brought into contact with the fixed contacts by inverting the movable contact member in response to the movable contact member being pushed by an operator, and a pushing member is disposed above the movable contact member, and the pushing member is configured to push the movable contact portion directly or through other portions upon being pushed by the operator. The pushing member pushes a portion being situated outside of a central portion of the movable contact member directly or through other portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kaneko, Katsutoshi Usui, Hiroshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 11946906
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a damaged region determination system of the embodiment includes a plurality of sensors, a position locator, and a determiner. The plurality of sensors detects elastic waves generated in a target object related to a railway which is a determination target of a damaged region. The position locator locates positions of sources of a plurality of elastic waves based on the plurality of elastic waves detected by each of the plurality of sensors. The determiner determines the damaged region in the target object based on the positions of the sources of the plurality of elastic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiki Takayasu, Takashi Usui, Kazuo Watabe, Atsuro Oonishi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Takamitsu Sunaoshi
  • Patent number: 11478160
    Abstract: A vital information measuring apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a vital information measuring apparatus for measuring vital information by compressing a measurement site of a subject with a cuff, and includes a fluid supply unit configured to supply a fluid to the cuff, and a first fluid supply controller configured to control, when a situation of the subject satisfies a first condition in which measurement of the vital information is recommended, a supply of the fluid to the cuff by the fluid supply unit to compress the measurement site in a first compression mode for informing the subject that the first condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Deno, Naoki Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Usui, Kosuke Inoue, Yoshiyuki Morita, Yasushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11457826
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the invention, an information processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first blood pressure information and second blood pressure information that is information earlier than the first blood pressure information, a blood pressure fluctuation detector configured to detect a blood pressure fluctuation exceeding a first reference value from the first and second blood pressure information, and a fluctuation information output unit configured to output blood pressure fluctuation information that reports the blood pressure fluctuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Deno, Naoki Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Usui, Kosuke Inoue, Yoshiyuki Morita, Yasushi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20210407651
    Abstract: A meal information management device according to one aspect includes: a biological information acquisition unit that acquires biological information of a user; a first generation unit that generates recommended meal information related to a meal menu which satisfies a standard based on the biological information at a specific time acquired by the biological information acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs the generated recommended meal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Toru DENO, Hiroshi USUI, Miho INOUE, Masakazu KISHIMOTO, Tamio UEDA, Mizuki FURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210391047
    Abstract: A document creation apparatus includes a first unit that acquires health data indicating a user health condition, a second unit that acquires at least one of consciousness data indicating user health consciousness, environment data indicating an environment related to user health, or knowledge data indicating a knowledge level related to the user health, a determination unit that determines a type of the user health based on a position of a point corresponding to the data acquired by the first unit and the second unit in a space spanned by bases, the bases being a vector having the health data, and at least one vector of a vector having the consciousness data, a vector having the environment data, or a vector having the knowledge data, and a creation unit that creates document data for a document to be presented to the user according to the type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: OMRON Corporation, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seitaro MURA, Hiroshi USUI, Hirotaka WADA
  • Publication number: 20200323441
    Abstract: A vital information measuring apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a vital information measuring apparatus for measuring vital information by compressing a measurement site of a subject with a cuff, and includes a fluid supply unit configured to supply a fluid to the cuff, and a first fluid supply controller configured to control, when a situation of the subject satisfies a first condition in which measurement of the vital information is recommended, a supply of the fluid to the cuff by the fluid supply unit to compress the measurement site in a first compression mode for informing the subject that the first condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru DENO, Naoki TSUCHIYA, Hiroshi USUI, Kosuke INOUE, Yoshiyuki MORITA, Yasushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20200315529
    Abstract: The present invention automatically acquires information about a living body at a time at which an effect of a medicine is generated. The present invention includes an acquisition control unit configured to acquire information about a medicine and time information about when the medicine is to be taken, a calculation control unit configured to calculate an effect generation time period in which an effect of the medicine is estimated to be generated, based on the information about the medicine and the time information, and a biological information acquisition control unit configured to perform processing for acquiring information about a living body, based on the effect generation time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Toru DENO, Naoki TSUCHIYA, Hiroshi USUI, Kosuke INOUE, Yoshiyuki MORITA, Yasushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20200315549
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire user data including physiological indicator data that are measurement data relating to a physiological indicator of a user and position data that are measurement data relating to a position of the user, a time identification unit configured to identify a time when fluctuations in the physiological indicator satisfying a predetermined condition have occurred, based on the physiological indicator data, a position identification unit configured to identify a position where the user has been present at the identified time, based on the position data, and an observed region determination unit configured to determine a local region including the identified position as an observed region for performing an attention alert relating to an occurrence of fluctuations in the physiological indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi USUI, Hironori SATO, Kosuke INOUE, Yasushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20200315463
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the invention, an information processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first blood pressure information and second blood pressure information that is information earlier than the first blood pressure information, a blood pressure fluctuation detector configured to detect a blood pressure fluctuation exceeding a first reference value from the first and second blood pressure information, and a fluctuation information output unit configured to output blood pressure fluctuation information that reports the blood pressure fluctuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru DENO, Naoki TSUCHIYA, Hiroshi USUI, Kosuke INOUE, Yoshiyuki MORITA, Yasushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20200315496
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal representing a movement of a subject from a sensor that detects the movement of the subject, a measurement unit that measures at least one of an activity amount and a number of steps of the subject based on the signal representing the movement of the subject, and an estimation unit that estimates a situation of the subject based on at least one of the activity amount or the number of steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru DENO, Hiroshi USUI, Kosuke INOUE, Yasushi MATSUOKA, Yoshiyuki MORITA, Naoki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20200303058
    Abstract: A lifestyle habit management device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a biological information acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement result of biological information about a user, a biological information fluctuation detection unit configured to detect fluctuations in the biological information caused by a lifestyle habit to be managed, and a lifestyle habit information generation unit configured to generate lifestyle habit information indicating a history in which the user has performed the lifestyle habit, based on a detection result of the fluctuations in the biological information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Toru DENO, Naoki TSUCHIYA, Hiroshi USUI, Kosuke INOUE, Yoshiyuki MORITA, Yasushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20200286626
    Abstract: A health management support device according to an aspect of the present invention is capable of providing appropriate support information to a user for whom health state improvement is desired, without relying on the user's own behavior log information. A health information database (21) stores medical examination information and lifestyle information for each user. Further, a lifestyle score is calculated for each of the users on the basis of the lifestyle information and stored in the health information database (21). Then, from among the users described above, a user to whom a classification of the medical examination information is “monitoring required” is selected as a supported user, and a goal user who is to serve as an example of health state improvement for the supported user is selected on the basis of attribute information, the medical examination information, and the lifestyle score stored in the health information database (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi USUI, Naoki TSUCHIYA, Yoshiyuki MORITA, Yasushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20190357842
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. The processing circuitry set a management target value related to a blood pressure feature value for each person, calculate improvement targets in lifestyle habits of the person according to the management target value, set a curved target line according to time transition data indicating a target blood-pressure lowering value at each time for predicting achievement of the management target value, detect that an actual blood-pressure lowering value obtained in time series from the person diverges from the target value, and notify the person when the divergence is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicants: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi USUI, Naoki TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20190320971
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a user terminal includes a processor. The processor is configured to: calculate feature quantities based on vital data, acceleration data, angular velocity data, and/or environmental data to obtain a feature vector including the feature quantities as elements; code at least a part of the elements of the feature vector to generate state data; and transmit the state data. The feature vector includes a first feature quantity as an element. The first feature quantity includes a feature quantity based on vital data, acceleration data, angular velocity data, and/or environmental data in a first time unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki TSUCHIYA, Hiroshi USUI, Yoshiyuki MORITA
  • Patent number: 9459609
    Abstract: An actuator monitoring circuit 1 which is mounted in an airplane and monitors an actuator 30 having a piston (output portion) calculates the moving distance of the piston, and outputs, when the moving distance exceeds a predetermined threshold, an approaching notification signal 78s and a progression notification signal 79s to notify the excess over the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Koizumi, Hiroshi Usui, Kiyoshi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 8817494
    Abstract: A converter includes a rectifying circuit of an AC voltage of an AC power source into a rectified voltage, an input smoothing capacitor Ci, a first series circuit connected to the input smoothing capacitor and including a first and a second switching elements, a second series circuit connected to a connection point of the first and second switching elements and a first end of the input smoothing capacitor and including a primary winding of a transformer and a first capacitor Cri, a controller to alternately turn on/off the first and second switching elements, a rectifying-smoothing circuit (D1, Co) to rectify and smooth a high-frequency voltage of a secondary winding of the transformer into a DC output voltage, and a second capacitor connected between a connection point of the primary winding of the transformer and the first capacitor and a first end of the AC power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
  • Patent number: 8648577
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DC-DC converter including: a first series circuit which is connected to the two ends of a direct-current power source Vi, and in which a first switching element Q1 and a second switching element Q2 are connected together in series; a control circuit 10 configured to alternately turn on and off the first switching element and the second switching element; a second series circuit which is connected to the two ends of the first switching element, and in which a first capacitor Ci, a first reactor Ls and a second reactor Ll having a larger value than the first reactor are connected together in series; and rectifying/smoothing circuits (Do, Co) configured to rectify and smooth a voltage between the two ends of the second reactor, and to output a direct-current output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
  • Patent number: D891468
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuki Tamai, Yasuhisa Tawa, Fumihiko Nakamura, Hiroshi Usui
  • Patent number: D891469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuki Tamai, Yasuhisa Tawa, Fumihiko Nakamura, Hiroshi Usui