Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Wada

Hirotaka Wada 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: 11931974
    Abstract: A filament winding apparatus includes a rail extending in a first direction, a core material support device that supports a core material, and a winding device that winds a fiber bundle onto an outer peripheral surface of the core material, the winding device including: a guide unit having an opening through which the core material passes, and guiding the fiber bundle; and a main frame on which the guide unit is mounted; wherein the main frame is movable relative to the core material in the first direction, the main frame is movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the main frame is rotatable around a first rotational axis extending in a third direction orthogonal to each of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11931949
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes a fiber bundle retainer that temporarily retains fiber bundles. The fiber bundle retainer includes: a reel member including an outer peripheral portion having pins movable in the axial direction relative to the fiber bundles supplied through fiber bundle guides and rotatable about the axis of the liner, the reel member capable of winding the fiber bundles onto the outer peripheral portion; a first cutting unit configured to cut a part of each of the fiber bundles in the circumferential direction, the part being between a part of the fiber bundle wound on the outer peripheral portion and a part of the fiber bundle wound on the liner; and a second cutting unit different from the first cutting unit and configured to cut a part of each of the fiber bundles in the axial direction, the part being wound on the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11783930
    Abstract: The present invention effectively provides, to a user, a coupon to improve a lifestyle. An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire user data including at least one of vital data including biological information pertaining to a user and lifestyle data pertaining to the user, a provision unit configured to apply, to the user data, reference data indicating criteria for determining a content of the user data and, in accordance with a result of the reference data being thus applied, provide, to the user, coupon data pertaining to a coupon configured to encourage the user to take a specific action, and a determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of usage history data of the coupon data thus provided and the user data corresponding to the usage history data, whether or not a coupon corresponding to the usage history data is effective in improving a lifestyle of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Hirotaka Wada, Tamio Ueda, Daisuke Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11776419
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a skill evaluation device, a skill evaluation method, and a storage medium capable of appropriately evaluating the skill of an operator by changing a time range for evaluating the skill of the operator. The skill evaluation device includes an acquisition part, an extraction part, a calculation part, and an output part. The acquisition part acquires time range information indicating an arbitrary time range. The extraction part extracts data of a specific time range determined based on the time range information from operation status data indicating an operation status of the operator in a time series. The calculation part calculates an index value of the skill of the operator for one or more evaluation items based on the data of the specific time range. The output part outputs index information indicating the index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Wada, Hiroshi Nakajima, Danni Wang
  • Patent number: 11700450
    Abstract: A motion analysis device, a motion analysis method and a motion analysis program that make it possible for an operator to improve his or her motions more smoothly are provided. The motion analysis device includes an acquisition part that relates to motions of a plurality of parts of an operator and acquires time-series data relating to an operation performed by an operator and; an analysis part analyzing the time-series data and generating motion data indicating a type of elemental motion and an execution time of the elemental motion from start to end thereof; an evaluation part evaluating the elemental motion performed by the plurality of parts based on an execution timing of the elemental motion; and a display control part performing control to differentiates periods corresponding to different elemental motions and display the evaluation together with the motion data on a display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Miyazaki, Hirotaka Wada
  • Patent number: 11617516
    Abstract: A biological information analyzing device includes: an indicator extraction unit that extracts an indicator pertaining to a characteristic of a blood pressure waveform using data of the blood pressure waveform obtained by a sensor, which is worn on a user's body and can non-invasively measure the blood pressure waveform for each of heartbeats, continuously measuring the blood pressure waveform; and a processing unit that carries out a process based on the extracted indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: Omron Corporation, OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Hirotaka Wada, Naoki Tsuchiya, Masaaki Kasai, Eriko Kan, Toru Uenoyama, Keiichi Obayashi, Ayako Kokubo, Yuya Ota, Toshikazu Shiga, Mitsuo Kuwabara, Hironori Sato, Ken Miyagawa, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11495350
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a situation specifying unit configured to specify a part of a situation of the measurement subject on the basis of the number of measurements of the biological information in each situation of the measurement subject at the time of measuring biological information of the measurement subject by a biological information measuring unit, a current situation detecting unit configured to detect a current situation of the measurement subject, and a support information output unit configured to output support information relating to measurement of the biological information if the current situation corresponds to the measurement promoting situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Hirotaka Wada, Tomohiro Kukita, Daisuke Nozaki, Natsuko Horiguchi, Tamio Ueda
  • Patent number: 11472096
    Abstract: A helical winding unit of a filament winding apparatus includes guide members guiding fiber bundles F to a liner, a movement mechanism moving the guide members, and a rotation mechanism rotating the guide members. Each of the guide members includes two side walls and guide portions fixed between the two side walls. As the guide portions, a first guide portion having a first guide surface and a second guide portion having a second guide surface and provided downstream of the first guide portion are provided. In the height direction, the first guide surface is oriented to one side. The second guide surface is oriented to the other side in the height direction and provided on the other side of the first guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Daigoro Nakamura, Hirotaka Wada, Tadashi Uozumi, Hideo Shitamoto, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Masatsugu Goyude, Tetsuya Matsuura, Shu Ikezaki
  • Patent number: 11472095
    Abstract: In a filament winding apparatus, a supplying device supplies fiber bundles to a surface of a core material. A moving part is movable relative to the core material, and rotatable around a rotational axis extending in a vertical direction. A small diameter aligning guide part is placed at the moving part and has an opening portion through which the core material can pass. The small diameter aligning guide part guides fiber bundles to an outer peripheral surface of the core material such that the fiber bundles are arranged side by side in a circumferential direction of the core material. The tightening fiber bobbin supporting part is placed at the moving part and rotates around a center of the opening portion. A winding guide rotates with the tightening fiber bobbin supporting part and guides a tightening fiber bundle drawn from a tightening fiber bobbin toward the surface of the core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Hirotaka Wada, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11440271
    Abstract: A helical winding unit is provided with a frame member in which a plurality of nozzle attachment units are provided to be aligned in a circumferential direction about an axis of a liner; nozzle units that each have a guide body movable in a radial direction of the liner and rotatable about a rotating axis extending in the radial direction, and that are attachable to and detachable from the nozzle attachment units; a moving endless toothed annular body that transmits, commonly to one or more nozzle units attached to one or more nozzle attachment units, power for moving the guide body in the radial direction; and a rotating endless toothed annular body that transmits, commonly to one or more nozzle units attached to one or more nozzle attachment units, power for rotating the guide body about the rotating axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Masatsugu Goyude, Tetsuya Matsuura, Daigoro Nakamura, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Shota Miyaji
  • Patent number: 11443558
    Abstract: Provided is a motion recognition apparatus capable of individually recognizing motions performed using each body part. A motion recognition apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition unit (11) configured to acquire time series information regarding motions of an operator; a motion recognition unit (12) configured to recognize, on the basis of motion information that defines individual motions and the time series information, a motion of the operator corresponding to any one of the individual motions for each body part of the operator and generate a motion recognition result including a start time and an end time of the one of the individual motions corresponding to the recognized motion of the operator for each body part of the operator; and a display unit (13) configured to display the motion recognition result of each body part in a chronologically aligned manner on the basis of the generated motion recognition result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Wada, Kenta Nishiyuki, Yuji Mizuno, Masashi Miyazaki, Danni Wang, Yoshikazu Mori, Endri Rama
  • Patent number: 11383425
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes: a supporting unit that supports a mandrel on which a plurality of fiber bundles impregnated with a resin are wound, the supporting unit movable in the axial direction of the mandrel; and a helical unit having a plurality of fiber bundle guide units arranged radially in the circumferential direction of the mandrel and guide the corresponding plurality of fiber bundles to the mandrel, the helical unit supplying the plurality of fiber bundles to the mandrel through the fiber bundle guide units. Each of the fiber bundle guide units has a pressing roller for pressing a fiber bundle supplied to the mandrel, against the circumferential surface moving in the axial direction. The pressing roller can come into the contact with the circumferential surface of the mandrel and be rotationally driven about a roller axis extending in a roller axis direction perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Daigoro Nakamura, Hirotaka Wada, Tadashi Uozumi, Hideo Shitamoto, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Masatsugu Goyude, Tetsuya Matsuura, Shu Ikezaki
  • Patent number: 11380137
    Abstract: A motion analysis device, a motion analysis method and a recording medium for storing a motion analysis program that make it possible to use a display region more efficiently are provided. The motion analysis device includes an acquisition part that acquires time-series data relating to an operation performed by an operator, an analysis part that analyzes the time-series data and generates motion data indicating a type and execution time of an elemental motion, a generation part that excludes data corresponding to a stop period of the operator which is taken until an initial elemental motion is started from the motion data, and generates shortened motion data, and a display control part that performs control to differentiate periods corresponding to different elemental motions and display the shortened motion data on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Miyazaki, Hirotaka Wada
  • Patent number: 11363961
    Abstract: A biological information analysis device including: an indicator extraction unit configured to extract an indicator indicating a cardiac state, from data regarding blood pressure waveforms that are consecutively measured by a sensor that is configured to be worn on a body part of a user and to be capable of non-invasively measuring a blood pressure waveform for each heartbeat; and a processing unit configured to output the indicator extracted by the indicator extraction unit. The indicator extraction unit is configured to extract a value of a cardiac load indicator for each heartbeat, from the data regarding blood pressure waveforms, and calculate the indicator indicating the cardiac state, based on characteristics related to distribution of values of the cardiac load indicator corresponding to a plurality of heartbeats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: Omron Corporation, OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Hirotaka Wada, Naoki Tsuchiya, Masaaki Kasai, Eriko Kan, Toru Uenoyama, Keiichi Obayashi, Ayako Kokubo, Yuya Ota, Toshikazu Shiga, Mitsuo Kuwabara, Hironori Sato, Ken Miyagawa, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11324454
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement apparatus includes a measuring device that includes a plurality of pressure sensors and is for measuring blood pressure information for each heartbeat in a measurement target, and an arrangement state inferring unit for extracting a feature quantity from an output waveform of each of the pressure sensors for each heartbeat, and inferring an arrangement state of the measuring means relative to an artery that is the measurement target based on a distribution profile of values of the feature quantity for the plurality of pressure sensors. The apparatus also includes a reliability calculating unit for calculating a reliability of the blood pressure information measured by the measuring means, based on the inferred arrangement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayako Kokubo, Hirotaka Wada, Eriko Kan, Keiichi Obayashi, Masaaki Kasai
  • Patent number: 11318661
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes: a helical winder which winds a fiber bundle around a liner; a bobbin supporting shaft which rotatably supports a bobbin for providing the fiber bundle to the helical winder and a bobbin different from the bobbin in a state in which winding-initiation ends of the fiber bundle wound around the bobbin and winding-termination ends of the fiber bundle wound around the bobbin connect to each other; and a fiber bundle storage unit. The fiber bundle storage unit has a stopper which can switch the fiber bundle storage unit between a storage state in which the fiber bundle is stored in the fiber bundle storage unit and a storage-released state in which the fiber bundle has been released from storage in the fiber bundle storage unit and the fiber bundle is supplied from the fiber bundle storage unit to the helical winding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Tetsuya Matsuura, Hirotaka Wada, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Shu Ikezaki, Daigoro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11311243
    Abstract: A blood pressure data processing apparatus including a peak selection unit, a frequency component suppression unit, a respiratory fluctuation calculation unit, an attenuation amount calculation unit, and a respiratory cycle determination unit. The frequency component suppression unit suppresses components of the selected peak frequency within the first spectrum, and generates a second spectrum. The respiratory fluctuation calculation unit calculates a first respiratory fluctuation in second blood pressure data, and calculates a second respiratory fluctuation in third blood pressure data, which is a time domain representation of the second spectrum. The attenuation amount calculation unit calculates an attenuation amount of the second respiratory fluctuation relative to the first respiratory fluctuation. The respiratory cycle determination unit determines a cycle corresponding to the selected peak frequency as a respiratory cycle of a user if the attenuation amount is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seitaro Mura, Hirotaka Wada, Eriko Kan, Ayako Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20220118723
    Abstract: A method of creating a winding data filament winding apparatus includes inputting an initial setting value including a length in a first direction of a core material in a first direction; setting a plurality of points to divide the length of the core material in the first direction; a winding angle setting step of setting a target winding angle that is an angle defined by an axial direction of the core material, and the fiber bundle wound around the core material between two of the plurality of points adjacent to each other in the first direction; and a winding rotational speed calculation step of calculating at least based on an initial setting value to be inputted and the target winding angle to be set, a target winding rotational speed of the winding drive motor between the two points adjacent to each other, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Masatsugu Goyude, Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Shota Miyaji, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20220112046
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes a fiber bundle retainer that temporarily retains fiber bundles. The fiber bundle retainer includes: a reel member including an outer peripheral portion having pins movable in the axial direction relative to the fiber bundles supplied through fiber bundle guides and rotatable about the axis of the liner, the reel member capable of winding the fiber bundles onto the outer peripheral portion; a first cutting unit configured to cut a part of each of the fiber bundles in the circumferential direction, the part being between a part of the fiber bundle wound on the outer peripheral portion and a part of the fiber bundle wound on the liner; and a second cutting unit different from the first cutting unit and configured to cut a part of each of the fiber bundles in the axial direction, the part being wound on the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11274015
    Abstract: A filament winding device includes a supporter configured to support a liner in a rotatable manner; a yarn supplying unit configured to support bobbins; a helical winding head configured to helical-wind a fiber bundles onto the liner; and a standard thread guiding mechanism configured to form a standard thread guide channel that guides a standard thread from the bobbins to the liner, the standard thread being different from the fiber bundles and being connected to leading ends of the fiber bundles, the standard thread guiding mechanism including nozzles configured to blow the standard thread with a compressed gas, and guide tubes configured to guide the standard thread blown by the nozzles, and the nozzles and the guide tubes being disposed along a fiber bundle guide channel, and capable of taking up the standard thread from the standard thread guide channel to the fiber bundle guide channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Daigoro Nakamura, Masatsugu Goyude, Tetsuya Matsuura, Hideo Shitamoto, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Tadashi Uozumi, Shu Ikezaki, Hirotaka Wada