Patents by Inventor Kazumasa Ito
Kazumasa Ito 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: 20180116569Abstract: A medical photometer includes a processor and a memory that stores an instruction readable by a computer. When the instruction is executed by the processor, the medical photometer acquires a first light attenuation of a first light beam that is transmitted through or reflected from a tissue of a living body, and that has a first wavelength, based on a first intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of the first light beam, acquires a second light attenuation of a second light beam that is transmitted through or reflected from the tissue, and that has a second wavelength, based on a second intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of the second light beam, and calculates a light absorber amount that is an amount of a first light absorber in the tissue, based on a ratio of the first light attenuation and the second light attenuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori UEDA, Teiji UKAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Hideki FUJISAKI
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Publication number: 20180116568Abstract: A medical photometer includes a processor and a memory that stores an instruction readable by a computer. When the instruction is executed by the processor, the medical photometer acquires a first light attenuation of a first light beam that is transmitted through or reflected from a tissue of a living body, and that has a first wavelength, based on a first intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of the first light beam, acquires a second light attenuation of a second light beam that is transmitted through or reflected from the tissue, and that has a second wavelength, based on a second intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of the second light beam, calculates a tissue thickness based on a ratio of the first light attenuation and the second light attenuation, and detects an artifact of the living body based on a temporal variation of the tissue thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori UEDA, Teiji UKAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Hideki FUJISAKI
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Publication number: 20180116567Abstract: A medical photometer includes a processor and a memory that stores an instruction readable by a computer. When the instruction is executed by the processor, the medical photometer acquires an intensity of one of a first intensity signal and a second intensity signal, the first intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of a first light beam that has a first wavelength and that is transmitted through or reflected from a tissue of a living body, and a second intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of a second light beam that has a second wavelength and that is transmitted through or reflected from the tissue of the living body acquires an intensity ratio of the first intensity signal and the second intensity signal, and detects an artifact of the living body based on the acquired intensity and the acquired intensity ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Nihon Kohden CorporationInventors: Yoshinori UEDA, Teiji UKAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Hideki FUJISAKI
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Publication number: 20180115202Abstract: In the rotary electric machine according to the present invention, a plurality of core sheets include linked core sheets that include linking portions that protrude circumferentially from flange portions so as to link together tip portions of adjacent tooth portions, at least one sheet of the linked core sheets is formed such that a tooth tip portion shape is mirror-asymmetrical relative to a tooth central axis that passes through a circumferential center of the tooth portions, and a stator core is configured by laminating the linked core sheets such that circumferential positions of the linking portions are offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yu HIROTANI, Kazumasa ITO, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Satoru AKUTSU, Hiroshi AIDA, Shusuke HORI
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Publication number: 20180097433Abstract: An armature has a plurality of armature cores arranged in a line in a first direction, coils wound on an area of the armature cores in a second direction, a carrier provided with a space in which to dispose the coils left in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction with respect to the armature cores, and at least one mounting member to fix the armature cores and the carrier. The armature cores are fixed to the mounting member by first bolts, and the carrier is fixed to the mounting member by second bolts. The at least one mounting member, the first bolts, and the second bolts are disposed in positions not overlapping the coils when viewed from the third direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroshi WAKAYAMA, Ryutaro INAGAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Kazumasa ITO, Kenta MOTOYOSHI
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Publication number: 20180092579Abstract: A pulse photometer includes a light emitter, a light detector, a first signal separator that separates a first signal component and a first noise component, a second signal separator that separates a second signal component and a second noise component, a first determining section, a second determining section, and a concentration calculating section that calculates a concentration of a light absorption material in blood of the subject based on a fundamental frequency of the first signal component or a fundamental frequency of the second signal component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori UEDA, Teiji UKAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Hideki FUJISAKI
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Publication number: 20180062466Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a conductive member surrounds a shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets provided on an outer peripheral portion of the shaft as a whole, and a holding member surrounds the shaft, the plurality of permanent magnets, and the conductive member as a whole. A conductivity of the conductive member is higher than a conductivity of the permanent magnet. The conductive member includes first and second opposing portions that oppose each other via a gap in a circumferential direction. An inter-opposing portion region existing between the first and second opposing portions is positioned within a circumferential direction range of an inter-magnet region existing between permanent magnets that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro MIZUTA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Kazumasa ITO, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Masatsugu NAKANO, Yoshiharu TAKASHIMA, Yoshiki OKADA, Masafumi OGAWA
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Publication number: 20180019628Abstract: With regard to an end portion shape of a slit formed in a rotor core in which flux barriers are formed in a circumferential direction in an identical number to the number of poles by arranging one or more slits and core layers alternately in a radial direction, an end portion of a slit is shaped such that, when mg is set as the number of slit end portions, ni is set as a natural number no smaller than 1, ? and ? are set as numbers within a range of ?¼ to ¼, q is set as a natural number no smaller than 1, and Ns is set as the number of slots, intervals ?gi and ?gi from a first slit end to an ith slit end of a slit wall on an identical circumferential direction side satisfy specific mathematical formulae.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumasa ITO, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Haruyuki KOMETANI, Masatsugu NAKANO, Norihiro ACHIWA, Yoshiki MAEDA, Masaya HARAKAWA
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Patent number: 9854999Abstract: A pulse photometer includes a light emitter, a light detector, a first signal separator that separates a first signal component and a first noise component, a second signal separator that separates a second signal component and a second noise component, a first determining section, a second determining section, and a concentration calculating section that calculates a concentration of a light absorption material in blood of the subject based on a fundamental frequency of the first signal component or a fundamental frequency of the second signal component.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Ueda, Teiji Ukawa, Kazumasa Ito, Hideki Fujisaki
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Patent number: 9825515Abstract: The rotation of the synchronous reluctance motor is controlled through energization of the winding with current of a phase having a ratio k between the total sum of radial-direction widths of the slits on the q-axis and a magnetic gap length, and having a lead angle ? from the d-axis. Among the core layers, the radial-direction width, on the q-axis, of the core layer that lies at a position closest in the circumferential direction to a point P at which there intersect the outer periphery of the rotor and the straight line passing through the rotor center and drawn at an angle ?=arctan(tan ?/(1+0.2k)) from the d-axis, is larger than the radial-direction width of other core layers on the q-axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumasa Ito, Shinichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9755470Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, when armature coil bodies of respective phases in which first and second armature windings, are both wound around 6 k×n teeth are set as Ua, Va, and Wa, armature coil bodies of respective phases in which only the first and armature winding is wound around 6 m×n teeth are set as Ub, Vb, and Wb, and armature coil bodies of respective phases in which only the second armature winding is wound around 6 m×n teeth are set as Uc, Vc, and Wc, Ua, Va, Wa, Ub, Vb, Wb, Uc, Vc, and Wc are respectively arranged so as to exhibit 2 n-fold rotational symmetry about an axial center of a rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Hirotani, Masatsugu Nakano, Kazumasa Ito, Hiroko Ueyama
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Publication number: 20170196463Abstract: A probe having a sensor configured to be attached to a living body to detect a physiological parameter and an information element configured to identify the sensor is connected to an interface of a physiological parameter processing apparatus. A detecting section of the physiological parameter processing apparatus detects, through the interface, whether the information element is present and whether the sensor is present. In response to the information element being detected but the sensor not being detected, a limiting processor of the physiological parameter processing apparatus limits at least a part of a function of the information element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2016Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo SUZUKI, Kazumasa ITO
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Publication number: 20170199057Abstract: In a related-art resolver, a front and a back of a stator core cannot be distinguished, and it is difficult to mass-produce the resolver while matching directions of shear drops and burrs. Thus, assembly accuracy of the resolver is degraded. Further, productivity and assembling ability are degraded because electromagnetic steel sheets are laminated by rotary lamination. The present invention provides a resolver including: a resolver stator including: a stator core formed of electromagnetic steel sheets, which have teeth, and are laminated without rotary lamination; a one-phase excitation winding; and two-phase output windings; and a resolver rotor arranged to be opposed to the resolver stator, in which the stator core has marks which enable distinction of a rolling direction of the stator core and distinction of a front and a back of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yusuke MORITA, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Masahiko FUJITA, Naohiro MOTOISHI, Kazumasa ITO, Masatsugu NAKANO
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Publication number: 20170100065Abstract: A physiological parameter measuring apparatus is configured to perform a screening for a likelihood of the critical congenital heart disease, based on the oxygen saturations at two locations on a body of a patient and the difference between the oxygen saturations, and to display the likelihood as a result of the screening. The physiological parameter measuring apparatus manages, with respect to each patient, a scheduled time for starting the screening, the result of the screening, and information relating to the patient. The physiological parameter measuring apparatus can display a first screen containing information relating to the scheduled time, a second screen for receiving the instruction to perform the screening, and a third screen containing the result of the screening. A physiological parameter measuring system includes sensors to be attached to the body at the two locations, and the physiological parameter measuring apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiko SUGIHARA, Kazumasa ITO, Osamu KAMATAKI, Hiroko HAGIWARA, Rie MUNESHIMA
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Patent number: 9615774Abstract: A CO2 sensor includes: a sensing portion operable to change in color in accordance with a CO2 partial pressure in expiration from at least one of nares and a mouth of a living body; and a mounting member adapted to hold the sensing portion at a position where the expiration from the at least one of the nares and the mouth impinges on the sensing portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Masayuki Inoue, Hidetoshi Dainobu, Toshiki Aoki, Kumi Sugiyama, Iwao Takahashi, Kazumasa Ito, Takashi Usuda
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Publication number: 20170093242Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, when armature coil bodies of respective phases in which first and second armature windings, are both wound around 6k×n teeth are set as Ua, Va, and Wa, armature coil bodies of respective phases in which only the first and armature winding is wound around 6m×n teeth are set as Ub, Vb, and Wb, and armature coil bodies of respective phases in which only the second armature winding is wound around 6m×n teeth are set as Uc, Vc, and Wc, Ua, Va, Wa, Ub, Vb, Wb, Uc, Vc, and Wc are respectively arranged so as to exhibit 2n-fold rotational symmetry about an axial center of a rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu HIROTANI, Masatsugu NAKANO, Kazumasa ITO, Hiroko UEYAMA
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Publication number: 20170062286Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing method according to an embodiment includes forming a first film on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor manufacturing method includes forming cavities in the first film. The semiconductor manufacturing method includes forming a second film inside the cavities by a CVD method using first gas containing a component of the second film, detecting a first time point at which the second film blocks openings of the cavities in forming the second film, and ending forming of the second film at a second time point at which a predetermined time has elapsed from the first time point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazumasa ITO, Seiichi Omoto, Takanobu Itoh, Ryota Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20170055919Abstract: A pulse photometer includes: a first variation acquirer acquiring a first variation corresponding to a light attenuation variation of a first light beam due to pulsation of blood in a subject based on a first intensity signal corresponding to an intensity of the first light beam transmitted through or reflected from a body of the subject and having a first wavelength; a second variation acquirer acquiring a second variation; a third variation acquirer acquiring a third variation; a concentration calculator calculating a blood light absorber concentration based on the first variation and the second variation; an estimated value calculator calculating an estimated value of the third variation based on the first variation and the second variation; and an evaluator evaluating reliability of a calculated value of the blood light absorber concentration based on the third variation and the estimated value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori UEDA, Teiji UKAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Hideki FUJISAKI
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Publication number: 20170014076Abstract: A probe which is to be attached to a finger of a subject to acquire physiological parameter of the subject includes a light emitter that emits a light beam toward the finger, a light detector that outputs a signal corresponding to a light beam that is transmitted through or reflected from the finger, a first holding face that has a portion which is faced with a nail of the finger and another portion which is faced with a side face of the finger, and a second holding face that has a portion which is faced with a pad of the finger and another portion which is faced with the side face of the finger. In a state where the probe is attached to the finger, the first holding face and the second holding face are placed to be continuous to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Yoshinori UEDA, Teiji UKAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Hideki FUJISAKI
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Patent number: 9526444Abstract: A biological signal measuring apparatus includes: a light emitter which emits at least two light beams having different wavelengths to living tissue of a subject; a light receiver which receives the light beams that are emitted from the light emitter, and which converts at least one of the light beams to at least one electric signal that corresponds to a reception light intensity of the at least one of the light beams; a detector which detects temporal variation of the reception light intensity from the electric signal; a selector which selects a pulse oximeter mode in which at least one of an oxygen saturation and a pulse rate is calculated and a capillary refilling time measurement mode in which a capillary refilling time is calculated; and a calculator which, based on the temporal variation of the reception light intensity, performs a calculation in the mode selected by the selector.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Kazumasa Ito, Hideaki Hirahara