Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Takahashi
Kazuhiko Takahashi 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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Publication number: 20160292948Abstract: A drawer 72 includes a coin container receiving unit 74 and a plurality of types of coin containers 76a, 76b having different shapes, each of the coin containers 76a, 76b can be placed in the coin container receiving unit 74, and wherein a number of the coin containers 76a, 76b installed in the drawer 72 is changeable according to a combination of the types of the coin containers 76a, 76b placed in the coin container receiving unit 74.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo NAGOYA, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Kenichiro AKITA
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Patent number: 9384614Abstract: A drawer 72 includes a coin container receiving unit 74 and a plurality of types of coin containers 76a, 76b having different shapes, each of the coin containers 76a, 76b can be placed in the coin container receiving unit 74, and wherein a number of the coin containers 76a, 76b installed in the drawer 72 is changeable according to a combination of the types of the coin containers 76a, 76b placed in the coin container receiving unit 74.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Nagoya, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichiro Akita
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Publication number: 20160166133Abstract: A capsule endoscope system includes: a capsule endoscope configured to be introduced into a subject; a guiding unit that generates a magnetic field to guide the capsule endoscope; a guidance magnetic field control unit that switches between ON and OFF of the magnetic field; a body posture discriminating unit that discriminates a body posture of the subject; a model extracting unit that extracts a body posture model according to the body posture of the subject, from among prepared body posture models, and extracts an organ model according to the body posture of the subject, from among prepared organ models; and a display control unit configured to: superimpose the organ model according to the body posture of the subject, on the extracted body posture model when the magnetic field is ON; and display the extracted body posture model and to hide the organ model when the magnetic field is OFF.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi CHIBA, Hironobu TAKIZAWA, Ryoji SATO, Hironao KAWANO, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Takuto IKAI
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Publication number: 20160089009Abstract: A capsule endoscope system includes: a capsule endoscope; a receiving unit that receives an image signal of an object transmitted wirelessly from the capsule endoscope; an image display unit that displays an image based on the image signal received by the receiving unit; a position detection unit that detects a position of the capsule endoscope; and a control unit having a first determination unit that determines whether normal display of the image based on the image signal is possible and having a second determination unit that determines whether normal position detection for the capsule endoscope is possible by the position detection unit. The control unit causes the image display unit to start display of the image based on the image signal when the normal display of the image based on the image signal is possible and the normal position detection for the capsule endoscope is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9212957Abstract: In an electrical machinery and apparatus, a storage space is formed along an extension direction of a strand, and a temperature sensor is installed in the storage space of the strand, so that temperature of the strand can be immediately measured, and no pressure is applied to the temperature sensor in the process of forming a ground wall insulation thereby the temperature of the strand can be accurately measured.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kengo Iwashige, Kenichi Hattori, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Yasunori Satake, Takayasu Tanaka, Toru Muto, Seiichi Sawada, Yasuaki Kageyama
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Patent number: 9192289Abstract: An endoscope system includes at least an endoscope of the endoscope and an accessory, a placement unit on which the endoscope is adapted to be placed, a detecting unit configured to detect whether the endoscope is placed on the placement unit or not, an actuating unit for at least one of the endoscope and the accessory, an operating unit for operating the actuating unit, and a control unit configured to be switched between a normal mode wherein the actuating unit is controlled according to an operation to the operating unit and a restricting mode wherein the actuating unit is controlled regardless of an operation to the operating unit, on the basis of a result of detection by the detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Umemoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi
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Patent number: 9161682Abstract: A medical system includes a movable portion configured to allow an angle to be changed within a predetermined angular range, an actuator configured to drive the movable portion so as to change the angle of the movable portion when a wire is pulled, a control unit configured to perform drive control of the actuator, a slack detection unit configured to detect a driving condition as to whether or not the wire is slack, a slack adjustment unit configured to adjust slack of the wire based on a detection result produced by the slack detection unit; and a slack adjustment command input unit used to input a command to adjust the slack of the wire, wherein the slack adjustment unit adjusts the slack of the wire to a predetermined state of adjustment in response to the command to adjust the slack of the wire.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Umemoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi
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Patent number: 9101339Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an accessory including an actuation portion configured to be actuated, an operating unit for operating the actuation portion, an endoscope including an accessory insertion pass wherein the accessory is adapted to be inserted through the accessory insertion pass from a proximal end portion of the accessory insertion pass to a distal end portion of the accessory insertion pass, and projected from and retracted into the distal end portion of the accessory insertion pass, a detecting unit configured to detect a condition of a part of the accessory, which is projected from the distal end portion of the accessory insertion pass, and a control unit configured to control an actuation of the actuation portion by an operation to the operating detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Toshio Nakamura
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Patent number: 9101514Abstract: A method of ejecting a faulty absorbent article which includes a step of detecting a failure region of an absorbent article in which a failure location of the absorbent article exists, and a type of a failure in the failure region, by identifying a shape of the absorbent article in the course of the manufacturing line, a step of deciding the absorbent article to be ejected based on the detection result of the failure region and the type of failure in the step of detecting, and a step of disengaging, from the manufacturing line, the absorbent article decided in the step of deciding, and then ejecting the absorbent article in the course of the manufacturing line. In the step of deciding, the number of absorbent articles to be ejected in the step of ejecting is decided according to the failure region and the type of the failure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Tomohiro Watanabe, Masanobu Miyaki
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Publication number: 20150187063Abstract: A medical device for acquiring a series of images in time sequence includes: a display unit; a feature information calculation unit that calculates feature information representing a feature of each of the series of images; a classification unit that classifies the series of images into groups in time sequence according to similarity between the images; a display area calculation unit that calculates a display area for each group, where the feature information of images in each of the groups is displayed, in a specified area on a screen of the display unit, based on the number of the groups; and a feature information display generation unit that arranges the feature information of images in each of the groups on the display area for each group, and generates a feature information display in which the display area for each group is arranged in time sequence in the specified area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventor: Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9036945Abstract: A medical image handling system includes a monitor for displaying a medical image, an input device for inputting an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and a processor. The processor judges the presence or absence of an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and restricts a change of the medical image in a case where the image reading report is judged as being absent.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Takekoshi, Akira Tago, Makoto Sato, Keiichi Sakai, Tsukasa Sako, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Muling Guo
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Publication number: 20150123508Abstract: Rotating machinery of the invention includes a 2n-pole rotor, 72n slots, and three-phase armature windings (n?1). Each of the slots houses a top coil on an inner radius side of the slots and a bottom coil on an outer radius side thereof. Each of the armature windings is formed by connecting the top and bottom coils and has 2n phase belts per phase. Each of the phase belts includes a first parallel winding and a second parallel winding. The top and bottom coils are formed by arranging the first and second parallel windings in a predefined order when a circumferential mean position of all top coils and bottom coils in each of the phase belts is defined as a phase belt center and an arrangement of the first and second parallel windings in at least one phase belt is viewed in an order of proximity to the phase belt center.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Norihito YANAGITA, Shigeki TOUNOSU
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Patent number: 8865896Abstract: A method for producing adenine compound (1): wherein m and n are independently an integer of 2 to 5, R1 is C1-6 alkyl group, R2 and R3 are the same or different, and hydrogen atom, or C1-6 alkyl group, or R2 and R3 are combined with an adjacent nitrogen atom to form pyrrolidine, morpholine, piperidine, piperazine, etc., and R4 is C1-3 alkyl group, which comprises a step of reacting compound (2): and compound (3): in the presence of a boron-containing reducing agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: Astrazeneca Aktiebolag, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Hashimoto, Wataru Katoda, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Ayumu Kurimoto
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Publication number: 20140197079Abstract: A method of ejecting a faulty absorbent article which includes a step of detecting a failure region of an absorbent article in which a failure location of the absorbent article exists, and a type of a failure in the failure region, by identifying a shape of the absorbent article in the course of the manufacturing line, a step of deciding the absorbent article to be ejected based on the detection result of the failure region and the type of failure in the step of detecting, and a step of disengaging, from the manufacturing line, the absorbent article decided in the step of deciding, and then ejecting the absorbent article in the course of the manufacturing line. In the step of deciding, the number of absorbent articles to be ejected in the step of ejecting is decided according to the failure region and the type of the failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Tomohiro Watanabe, Masanobu Miyaki
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Publication number: 20140196585Abstract: A method of ejecting absorbent articles which comprises: a step of providing a joint portion where a trailing end of a continuous web is joined to a starting end of a next continuous web, a step of controlling a timing of supplying the continuous web so as to locate the joint portion at a central portion of the absorbent articles in a machine direction, based on a length of the continuous web from the joint portion up to a cutting location and a dimension of the absorbent articles in the machine direction of the continuous web; and a step of disengaging only absorbent articles having the joint portion and ejecting the absorbent articles in the course of the manufacturing line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Tomohiro Watanabe, Masanobu Miyaki
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Patent number: 8760028Abstract: An electrical rotating machine including a stator core is provided. The stator core is formed of substantially sector-shaped sheet segments die-cut from electrical steel sheets and arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core to form circular sheets which are stacked in an axial direction of the stator core. In the electrical rotating machine, end regions of the stator core are formed of stacked sheet segments die-cut from non-grain oriented steel sheets, and the other region of the stator core is formed of stacked sheet segments die-cut from grain oriented steel sheets.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Junya Kaneda, Kenichi Hattori, Takashi Watanabe
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Patent number: 8744287Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an information rewrite unit that rewrites information stored in a storage if an empty detector detects that a toner container is empty and the toner container is at least allowed to be released, and then if the empty detector detects that the toner container is not empty.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko Takahashi
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Patent number: 8717427Abstract: An endoscope includes a bending operation knob inputting a bending operation of a bending section in first perpendicular directions, a touch surface which is exposed in an outer surface of a grip casing and on which a bending operation of the bending section in second perpendicular directions is input, and a positional information calculator calculating a positional information of a touched region with time, the touched region being a region that is touched in the touch surface. The endoscope includes a positional change detector detecting a positional change of the touched region when the bending operation of the bending section in the second perpendicular directions is input, and a drive controller controlling a drive state of a drive member in accordance with the positional change of the touched region.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventor: Kazuhiko Takahashi
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Publication number: 20140069769Abstract: In a banknote handling apparatus capable of dealing with a depositing/dispensing process by a banknote cassette and a manual depositing/dispensing process, the banknote handling apparatus enables a depositing process without dispensing a reject banknote, which has been deposited from the banknote cassette, to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Kobayashi, Shingo Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi
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Publication number: 20140024890Abstract: An endoscope system includes at least an endoscope of the endoscope and an accessory, a placement unit on which the endoscope is adapted to be placed, a detecting unit configured to detect whether the endoscope is placed on the placement unit or not, an actuating unit for at least one of the endoscope and the accessory, an operating unit for operating the actuating unit, and a control unit configured to be switched between a normal mode wherein the actuating unit is controlled according to an operation to the operating unit and a restricting mode wherein the actuating unit is controlled regardless of an operation to the operating unit, on the basis of a result of detection by the detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Yoshitaka UMEMOTO, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI