Patents by Inventor Hiroto Kubozono
Hiroto Kubozono 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: 11460324Abstract: A scale includes a plurality of conductors that are arrayed in a given interval along a measurement axis, wherein each of the plurality of conductors has projection portions, each of which projects toward each side of the measurement axis, and wherein at least a part of each of the projection portions has a curve projecting in the measurement axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Patent number: 11422010Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type encoder includes a detection head and a scale. The detection head has a first transceiver coil to generate magnetic flux with respect to a first track and a second transceiver coil to generate magnetic flux with respect to a second track. The scale has a first plurality of periodical elements with respect to the first track and a second plurality of periodical elements with respect to the second track. The detection head has a receiver coil that continuously extends from the first track to the second track, is electromagnetically coupled with the magnetic flux generated by the first plurality of periodical elements and the magnetic flux generated by the second plurality of periodical elements, and detects a phase of the magnetic flux generated by the first plurality of periodical elements and a phase of the magnetic flux generated by the second plurality of periodical elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Publication number: 20210190544Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type encoder includes a detection head and a scale. The detection head has a first transceiver coil to generate magnetic flux with respect to a first track and a second transceiver coil to generate magnetic flux with respect to a second track. The scale has a first plurality of periodical elements with respect to the first track and a second plurality of periodical elements with respect to the second track. The detection head has a receiver coil that continuously extends from the first track to the second track, is electromagnetically coupled with the magnetic flux generated by the first plurality of periodical elements and the magnetic flux generated by the second plurality of periodical elements, and detects a phase of the magnetic flux generated by the first plurality of periodical elements and a phase of the magnetic flux generated by the second plurality of periodical elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Publication number: 20210180991Abstract: A scale includes a plurality of conductors that are arrayed in a given interval along a measurement axis, wherein each of the plurality of conductors has projection portions, each of which projects toward each side of the measurement axis, and wherein at least a part of each of the projection portions has a curve projecting in the measurement axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Patent number: 10996077Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type encoder includes a detection head and a scale. The detection head has a transmitter coil configured to generate magnetic flux. The scale has connection coils that are arrayed in a measurement axis direction, are configured to be electromagnetically coupled with magnetic flux generated by the transmitter coil and generate magnetic flux that fluctuates in a predetermined spatial period in the measurement axis direction. The detection head has a receiver coil having a plurality of coils that are arrayed in the measurement axis direction on a predetermined face of the detection head, are configured to be electromagnetically coupled with the magnetic flux generated by the connection coils and detect a phase of the magnetic flux. A current direction of one of the plurality of coils is opposite to a current direction of another coil of the plurality of coils next to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Publication number: 20200240812Abstract: The electromagnetic induction type encoder includes a detection head and a scale each having a substantially flat plate shape. The detection head and the scale are disposed opposed to one another and relatively move in a measurement axis direction. The scale includes a plurality of periodic elements formed of a conductor periodically disposed in the measurement axis direction. The plurality of periodic elements are coupled with a conductor. The detection head includes a transmitting coil wired so as to generate two or more eddy currents in directions opposite to one another in each of the plurality of periodic elements. The detection head includes a receiving coil. The receiving coil is electromagnetically coupled to magnetic fluxes generated by the plurality of periodic elements to detect phases of the magnetic fluxes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Patent number: 10704930Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic induction type displacement detection apparatus in which influence of a change in magnetic flux received by a receiving device can be suppressed. An electromagnetic induction type displacement detection apparatus 1 includes a scale including a scale coil and a head 3 relatively moving with respect to the scale. The head 3 includes a transmitting device 4 that generates magnetic flux in the scale coil, and a receiving device 5 that includes a first receiving unit 51 and a second receiving unit 52 each receiving the change in the magnetic flux and in which the first receiving unit 51 and the second receiving unit 52 are arranged to be shifted from each other along a measurement direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: MITUTOYOInventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Publication number: 20200109966Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type encoder, wherein a detection head has a transmitter coil configured to generate magnetic flux, wherein a scale has a plurality of connection coils arrayed in a measurement axis direction, are configured to be electromagnetically coupled with magnetic flux generated by the transmitter coil and generate magnetic flux that fluctuates in a predetermined spatial period in the measurement axis direction, wherein the detection head has a receiver coil having a plurality of coils arrayed in the measurement axis direction on a predetermined face of the detection head and are configured to be electromagnetically coupled with the magnetic flux generated by the plurality of connection coils and detect a phase of the magnetic flux, wherein a current direction of one of the plurality of coils is opposite to a current direction of another coil of the plurality of coils next to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Publication number: 20180274949Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic induction type displacement detection apparatus in which influence of a change in magnetic flux received by a receiving device can be suppressed. An electromagnetic induction type displacement detection apparatus 1 includes a scale including a scale coil and a head 3 relatively moving with respect to the scale. The head 3 includes a transmitting device 4 that generates magnetic flux in the scale coil, and a receiving device 5 that includes a first receiving unit 51 and a second receiving unit 52 each receiving the change in the magnetic flux and in which the first receiving unit 51 and the second receiving unit 52 are arranged to be shifted from each other along a measurement direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventor: Hiroto Kubozono
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Patent number: 7906958Abstract: The invention provides a highly accurate and inexpensive electromagnetic induction type encoder capable of acquiring strong signal intensity with the offset reduced by a short scale coil, and is durable against fluctuations in the yaw direction, which includes a number of scale coils 14 arrayed on a scale 10 along the measurement direction, and transmitting coils 24 and receiving coils 20 that are disposed on a grid 12 relatively movably in the measurement direction with respect to the scale, and which detects a relative movement amount of the scale and the grid from changes in magnetic fluxes detected by the receiving coils via the scale coil when the transmitting coils are magnetized, wherein a plurality of sets of the transmitting coils (24A, 24B), the receiving coils (20A, 20B) and the scale coils (14A, 14B) are disposed symmetrically with respect to the center of the scale, and scale coils of one set located at a symmetrical position around the center of the scale is disposed with ½ phase of the scale piType: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Osamu Kawatoko, Hiroto Kubozono
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Publication number: 20090195241Abstract: The invention provides a highly accurate and inexpensive electromagnetic induction type encoder capable of acquiring strong signal intensity with the offset reduced by a short scale coil, and is durable against fluctuations in the yaw direction, which includes a number of scale coils 14 arrayed on a scale 10 along the measurement direction, and transmitting coils 24 and receiving coils 20 that are disposed on a grid 12 relatively movably in the measurement direction with respect to the scale, and which detects a relative movement amount of the scale and the grid from changes in magnetic fluxes detected by the receiving coils via the scale coil when the transmitting coils are magnetized, wherein a plurality of sets of the transmitting coils (24A, 24B), the receiving coils (20A, 20B) and the scale coils (14A, 14B) are disposed symmetrically with respect to the center of the scale, and scale coils of one set located at a symmetrical position around the center of the scale is disposed with ½ phase of the scale piType: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIOINInventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Osamu Kawatoko, Hiroto Kubozono