Patents by Inventor Katsuya Iida
Katsuya Iida 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: 11542983Abstract: A motion guide device includes: a supporting body; a movable body which is movable along the supporting body; a roller which is configured to be rollable between the supporting body and the movable body; a roller holding member which is provided on the movable body to hold the roller, wherein the roller holding member comprises an upper roller holding member and a lower roller holding member, a protrusion is formed on the lower roller holding member, the protrusion is in a length direction of the movable body and opposite to a foot of the movable body, an opening is formed on the foot, the opening is opened to a side of the supporting body in the length direction to receive the protrusion, a protrusion width of the protrusion is greater than an opening width of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunlei Liang, Rendong Li, Jixun Sha, Tsutomu Togashi, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida
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Publication number: 20220214311Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis system that diagnoses an abnormality related to each control shaft in equipment in which the plurality of control shafts, each including a motor and an output unit driven by the motor, are incorporated, includes: a plurality of vibration sensors that are provided for the plurality of control shafts, respectively, and that detect vibration occurring in connection with driving of the motor corresponding to each control shaft; a calculation unit that calculates, for each of the plurality of control shafts, vibration levels in a plurality of predetermined frequency ranges, based on vibration information detected by each of the plurality of vibration sensors; and a diagnosis unit that diagnoses an abnormality related to each control shaft, based on a distribution state, across the plurality of predetermined frequency ranges and across the plurality of control shafts, of the vibration levels calculated by the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuhei Yamanaka, Katsuya Iida, Takuya Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Honjo, Hiroshi Inoko, Masatomo Tokuno, Satoru Nagai
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Patent number: 11242919Abstract: An object of the present invention is to preferably detect the failure accompanied with the decrease in the pre-load in a ball screw unit. The failure diagnosis is performed for the ball screw unit on the basis of a combination of a resonance frequency in an axial direction of a predetermined machine assembly including the ball screw unit and a motor and a position of a nut member on a screw shaft corresponding to the resonance frequency as provided when the screw shaft is driven and rotated by the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: THK CO., LTD., DISCO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Honjo, Shuhei Yamanaka, Katsuya Iida, Satoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11227342Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for recommending friends in automated chatting. A message is received from a user in a chat flow. An intention of looking for friends is identified from the message. One or more recommended friends are identified based on a topic knowledge graph. The recommended friends are provided in the chat flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xianchao Wu, Katsuya Iida
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Patent number: 11199227Abstract: A lubricant supplying device has: a mounted member that is mounted to a moving member, which moves along a rail, and that is disposed with an interval between the mounted member and concave portions that are provided in the rail along a length direction of the rail; and a supply path unit that is removably attached to the mounted member, wherein the supply path unit has an introducing port into which a lubricant is supplied, supplying members that project out from the mounted member toward the concave portions and supply the lubricant to rolling surfaces of the concave portions on which rolling bodies that are provided at the moving member roll, and a tubular member that connects the introducing port and the supplying members, and the mounted member has an accommodating portion that is concave and accommodates the supply path unit from the length direction of the rail.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Takuya Horie, Takeshi Shimamura
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Publication number: 20210317872Abstract: A motion guide device includes: a supporting body; a movable body which is movable along the supporting body; a roller which is configured to be rollable between the supporting body and the movable body; a roller holding member which is provided on the movable body to hold the roller, wherein the roller holding member comprises an upper roller holding member and a lower roller holding member, a protrusion is formed on the lower roller holding member, the protrusion is in a length direction of the movable body and opposite to a foot of the movable body, an opening is formed on the foot, the opening is opened to a side of the supporting body in the length direction to receive the protrusion, a protrusion width of the protrusion is greater than an opening width of the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: THK Co., LTD.Inventors: Yunlei Liang, Rendong Li, Jixun Sha, Tsutomu Togashi, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida
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Patent number: 11093711Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for providing artificial intelligence (AI) entity-specific feedback. Official content related to an entity or entity figure may be extracted and analyzed. The extracted content may be classified in an entity corpus based on a determined language style of the content. An input into a conversational AI system may be received. A plurality of potential responses related to the input may be determined from one or more entity corpus. Each of the plurality of potential responses may be ranked according to a rank match value calculated for each of the plurality of determined responses, and at least one of potential responses may be provided as feedback.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Katsuya Iida, Momo Klyen, Keizo Fujiwara, Xianchao Wu, Zhan Chen
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Publication number: 20210164546Abstract: An object of the present invention is to preferably detect the failure accompanied with the decrease in the pre-load in a ball screw unit. The failure diagnosis is performed for the ball screw unit on the basis of a combination of a resonance frequency in an axial direction of a predetermined machine assembly including the ball screw unit and a motor and a position of a nut member on a screw shaft corresponding to the resonance frequency as provided when the screw shaft is driven and rotated by the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicants: THK CO., LTD., DISCO CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Honjo, Shuhei Yamanaka, Katsuya Iida, Satoshi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20200386273Abstract: A lubricant supplying device has: a mounted member that is mounted to a moving member, which moves along a rail, and that is disposed with an interval between the mounted member and concave portions that are provided in the rail along a length direction of the rail; and a supply path unit that is removably attached to the mounted member, wherein the supply path unit has an introducing port into which a lubricant is supplied, supplying members that project out from the mounted member toward the concave portions and supply the lubricant to rolling surfaces of the concave portions on which rolling bodies that are provided at the moving member roll, and a tubular member that connects the introducing port and the supplying members, and the mounted member has an accommodating portion that is concave and accommodates the supply path unit from the length direction of the rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Takuya Horie, Takeshi Shimamura
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Patent number: 10800080Abstract: A tape-shaped product and a belt for a ball chain are provided. A tape-shaped product of synthetic resin includes a tape of a thermoplastic resin, and a preliminarily stretched fibrous member of a thermoplastic resin contained therein along longitudinally parallel edges or in proximity thereto of the tape. A belt for a ball chain, includes a tape-shaped product of synthetic resin formed by injection molding, together with a fibrous member as an insert of a resin of the same kind as that of the fibrous member so that the fibrous member is disposed along the longitudinal edges or in proximity thereto, ball-insetting holes are disposed at equal intervals, and ball-retaining projections are disposed around the holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Masumura, Kazuki Tomita, Akira Tochigi, Yuji Kokuno, Seiichi Ohira, Hidekazu Michioka, Katsuya Iida
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Publication number: 20200234384Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for recommending friends in automated chatting. A message is received from a user in a chat flow. An intention of looking for friends is identified from the message. One or more recommended friends are identified based on a topic knowledge graph. The recommended friends are provided in the chat flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Xianchao WU, Katsuya IIDA
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Patent number: 10711838Abstract: This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Shigeo Tomita
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Patent number: 10662999Abstract: This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Shigeo Tomita
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Publication number: 20190170189Abstract: This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Shigeo Tomita
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Publication number: 20180089164Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for providing artificial intelligence (AI) entity-specific feedback. Official content related to an entity or entity figure may be extracted and analyzed. The extracted content may be classified in an entity corpus based on a determined language style of the content. An input into a conversational AI system may be received. A plurality of potential responses related to the input may be determined from one or more entity corpus. Each of the plurality of potential responses may be ranked according to a rank match value calculated for each of the plurality of determined responses, and at least one of potential responses may be provided as feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Katsuya Iida, Momo Klyen, Keizo Fujiwara, Xianchao Wu, Zhan Chen
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Patent number: 9797447Abstract: In a bearing for vertical axis windmill configured to rotatably support a vertical axis of a vertical axis windmill, the bearing includes a ball (7), a diameter of the ball and a curvature of a rolling groove of the bearing are set to satisfy a predetermined starting torque and a load rating. For example, the curvature of the rolling groove of the bearing is 54% or more and 100% or less, and the diameter of the ball has a ratio of 20% or less with respect to a vertical shaft (2).Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Aso, Katsuya Iida, Tomoyuki Aida, Yuki Hayashi, Takashi Sakuyama
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Patent number: 9506544Abstract: A ball screw device or linear motion guide device has a seal member preventing dust and dirt from entering into a movable member of a linear motion guide device and seals out fine dust, dirt or like by surely contacting a seal to a shaft member without providing a large margin to the seal. The seal member includes a body portion mounted to the movable member and a lip portion contacting an outer portion of the shaft member, the lip portion has an oblique surface having an axial section inclining with respect to its axial direction, the body portion has an urging member urging the lip portion in a diameter direction of the shaft member and a reinforcing portion reinforcing the body portion. The urging member is located on the reinforcing portion side than the tip end of the lip portion in the axial sectional shape of the lip portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Tsutomu Togashi, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160193764Abstract: A tape-shaped product and a belt for a ball chain are provided. A tape-shaped product of synthetic resin includes a tape of a thermoplastic resin, and a preliminarily stretched fibrous member of a thermoplastic resin contained therein along longitudinally parallel edges or in proximity thereto of the tape. A belt for a ball chain, includes a tape-shaped product of synthetic resin formed by injection molding, together with a fibrous member as an insert of a resin of the same kind as that of the fibrous member so that the fibrous member is disposed along the longitudinal edges or in proximity thereto, ball-insetting holes are disposed at equal intervals, and ball-retaining projections are disposed around the holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Nobuyuki MASUMURA, Kazuki TOMITA, Akira TOCHIGI, Yuji KOKUNO, Seiichi OHIRA, Hidekazu MICHIOKA, Katsuya IIDA
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Publication number: 20160070686Abstract: Annotation methods and systems for supporting the annotation of documents in the format of a rendering engine are provided. The annotation system allows for the adding of annotations to documents, the displaying of annotations over content of the documents, and the displaying of annotations in an annotation pane. To provide annotation support for a document, the annotation system augments the document with elements including an element with annotation engine code and elements to support the collecting and displaying of annotations. When the rendering engine renders the document, it executes the annotation engine code to effect the collecting and displaying of the annotations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Chris Yu, David Matsumoto, Katsuya Iida, Xin Zhang, Sachio Kono, Yu Kuratake, Max Levy, Shinobu Furuma
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Publication number: 20140306459Abstract: In a bearing for vertical axis windmill configured to rotatably support a vertical axis of a vertical axis windmill, the bearing includes a ball (7), a diameter of the ball and a curvature of a rolling groove of the bearing are set to satisfy a predetermined starting torque and a load rating. For example, the curvature of the rolling groove of the bearing is 54% or more and 100% or less, and the diameter of the ball has a ratio of 20% or less with respect to a vertical shaft (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Toshiyuki Aso, Katsuya Iida, Tomoyuki Aida, Yuki Hayashi, Takashi Sakuyama