Patents by Inventor Kazunobu Hashimoto
Kazunobu Hashimoto 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: 10028881Abstract: A swinging leg pendulum movement aid for walking including a pair of assisting units for a left leg and a right leg each having a drive source for applying a pulling force to an auxiliary force transmission part, a joint angle sensor for detecting a joint angle of user's hip joints, and a control member for driving the drive sources of the respective assisting units corresponding to changes in the joint angle and applying an assistance force in a forward swinging direction to the swinging leg that kicked off a ground so as to aid a pendulum movement of the swinging leg.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignees: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Motoji Yamamoto, Shin-ichiro Takasugi, Masanori Sato, Takahiro Komatsu, Kazunobu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9954162Abstract: A reactive ionic liquid to be used as an ionic component that is contained in an ion-containing layer in a transducer arranged in contact with a high-resistance layer as a dielectric layer of the transducer, and is restrained from migrating from the ion-containing layer to the high-resistance layer on application of a voltage is provided. The reactive ionic liquid comprises an ion pair that consists of an anion and a cation. (a) The cation (a1) is an imidazolium or quaternary ammonium cation, and (a2) comprises a reactive group that consists of an alkoxysilyl or phosphonate group. (b) The anion (b1) is a sulfonate, sulfonylimide, or nitrobenzoate anion.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, KYUSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Shigeaki Takamatsu, Yota Kokubo, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Hitoshi Yoshikawa, Atsushi Takahara, Ryousuke Matsuno, Hideyuki Otsuka
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Patent number: 9763847Abstract: Provided is a joint movement aid, which has a simple structure and is lightweight and which a user can easily put on and take off, and which has a novel structure capable of safely supporting a walking without impeding a user's autonomous fall-preventing movement even in a case of a disturbance such as external force on the user in a transverse direction. The walking movement aid includes a right and left pair of assisting units provided with drive sources, which exert a pulling force on flexible auxiliary force transmission parts, and a control member for controlling the respective drive sources of the assisting units corresponding to changes in a joint angle with user's hip joints.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignees: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Motoji Yamamoto, Shin-ichiro Takasugi, Yukihide Iwamoto, Masanori Sato, Kazunobu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9550865Abstract: An ion-immobilized metal oxide particle includes a metal oxide particle and an anion that itself includes a) a reactive group that consists of an alkoxysilyl group and b) an anionic group consisting of a carboxylate (—COO?) group or a sulfonate (—SO3?) group, the anion being immobilized to the metal oxide particle via a silanol group derived from the reactive group. An elastomer includes the ion-immobilized metal oxide particle, and a transducer includes the elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeaki Takamatsu, Ryosuke Matsuno, Shingi Kumagai, Yota Kokubo, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Hitoshi Yoshikawa, Atsushi Takahara, Hideyuki Otsuka
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Publication number: 20160235615Abstract: A joint-movement assisting device including: (i) an assist force control member to adjust an output level of a driving member in order to bring a load acting on an assist force transmission part to a targeted assist force during action of an assist force; (ii) a slack prevention control member to operate the driving member and exert a bias force on the assist force transmission part in order to eliminate a slack thereof during non-action of the assist force; and a load sensor to detect the load acting on the assist force transmission part in a direction of tension. For at least one of the assist force control member and the slack prevention control member, the driving member is feedback-controlled based on a detection value by the load sensor in order to bring the acting load to the targeted assist force or bias force.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicants: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, Sumitomo Riko Company LimitedInventors: Motoji YAMAMOTO, Shin-ichiro TAKASUGI, Shanhai JIN, Hiroshi YOSHIMINE, Takahiro KOMATSU, Kazunobu HASHIMOTO, Shohei SATO
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Publication number: 20160075835Abstract: An ion-immobilized metal oxide particle includes a metal oxide particle and an anion that itself includes a) a reactive group that consists of an alkoxysilyl group and b) an anionic group consisting of a carboxylate (—COO?) group or a sulfonate (—SO3?) group, the anion being immobilized to the metal oxide particle via a silanol group derived from the reactive group. An elastomer includes the ion-immobilized metal oxide particle, and a transducer includes the elastomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicants: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeaki TAKAMATSU, Ryosuke MATSUNO, Shingi KUMAGAI, Yota KOKUBO, Kazunobu HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi YOSHIKAWA, Atsushi TAKAHARA, Hideyuki OTSUKA
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Patent number: 9212263Abstract: A reactive ionic liquid to be used as an ionic component that is contained in an ion-containing layer in a transducer arranged in contact with a high-resistance layer as a dielectric layer of the transducer, and is restrained from migrating from the ion-containing layer to the high-resistance layer on application of a voltage is provided. The reactive ionic liquid comprises an ion pair that consists of an anion and a cation. In the reactive ionic liquid, (a) the anion comprises (a1) a reactive group that consists of an alkoxysilyl group and (a2) an anionic group consisting of a carboxylate (—COO?) group or a sulfonate (—SO3?) group. (b) The cation (b1) consists of an imidazolium, ammonium, pyrrolidinium, morpholinium, or phosphonium cation, and (b2) does not comprise an N—H group or a P—H group.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeaki Takamatsu, Ryosuke Matsuno, Shingi Kumagai, Yota Kokubo, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Hitoshi Yoshikawa, Atsushi Takahara, Hideyuki Otsuka
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Patent number: 9073449Abstract: An efficiency map generating apparatus (100) generates an efficiency map of motors (M) connected to drive wheels of a mobile body and includes an instructed torque detecting unit (111) that detects an instructed torque input for the multiple motors (M), a torque distributing unit (112) that distributes torque to each of the multiple motors (M) based on the instructed torque, a power consumption detecting unit (113) that detects power consumption of the motors (M), a rotation count detecting unit (103) that detects the rotation counts of the motors (M), and an efficiency map generating unit (114) that generates a motor efficiency map (115) based on the torque in multiple combinations, the power consumption, and the rotation counts, where the torque distributing unit (112) causes any of the multiple motors (M) to generate regenerative torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutoshi Kitano, Masahiro Kato, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Chihiro Kawabata, Eiji Muramatsu
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Patent number: 9045057Abstract: An efficiency map generating apparatus (100) generates an efficiency map of motors (M) connected to drive wheels of a mobile body and includes an instructed torque detecting unit (111) that detects an instructed torque input for the multiple motors (M), a torque distributing unit (112) that distributes torque to each of the multiple motors (M) based on the instructed torque, a power consumption detecting unit (113) that detects power consumption of the motors (M), a rotation count detecting unit (103) that detects the rotation counts of the motors (M), and an efficiency map generating unit (114) that generates a motor efficiency map (115) based on the torque in multiple combinations, the power consumption, and the rotation counts, where the torque distributing unit (112) causes any of the multiple motors (M) to generate regenerative torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutoshi Kitano, Masahiro Kato, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Chihiro Kawabata, Eiji Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20150137666Abstract: A reactive ionic liquid to be used as an ionic component that is contained in an ion-containing layer in a transducer arranged in contact with a high-resistance layer as a dielectric layer of the transducer, and is restrained from migrating from the ion-containing layer to the high-resistance layer on application of a voltage is provided. The reactive ionic liquid comprises an ion pair that consists of an anion and a cation. (a) The cation (a1) is an imidazolium or quaternary ammonium cation, and (a2) comprises a reactive group that consists of an alkoxysilyl or phosphonate group. (b) The anion (b1) is a sulfonate, sulfonylimide, or nitrobenzoate anion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicants: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, KYUSHU UNIVERSITYInventors: Shigeaki TAKAMATSU, Yota KOKUBO, Kazunobu HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi YOSHIKAWA, Atsushi TAKAHARA, Ryousuke MATSUNO, Hideyuki OTSUKA
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Patent number: 9014897Abstract: A torque distribution apparatus acquires instructed torque input and a motor efficiency map; detects vehicular speed and drive wheel rotational speed; calculates based on the speeds, a relational expression of a slip rate at drive wheels and a friction coefficient; creates based on the relational expression, a performance curve expression that indicates torque-drive wheel rotational speed relations, superimposes the performance curve expression on the motor efficiency map, creates an efficiency variation expression that indicates for each vehicular speed, the torque and efficiency values of the motor efficiency map, and calculates torque that optimizes efficiency, from the efficiency variation expression; calculates within a range of the slip rate being 0 to 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kato, Eiji Muramatsu, Chihiro Kawabata, Kazutoshi Kitano, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Yoshikazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8935032Abstract: A torque distribution apparatus acquires an instructed torque input and a motor efficiency map for motors; detects vehicular speed and drive wheel rotational speed; calculates based on the detected speeds, a relational expression of drive wheel slip rate and a friction coefficient; creates based on the relational expression, a performance curve expression indicating relations between torque and the drive wheel rotational speed, superimposes the performance curve expression on the motor efficiency map, creates an efficiency variation expression indicating for each vehicular speed, the torque and efficiency values of the motor efficiency map, and calculates a torque that optimizes efficiency from the efficiency variation expression; calculates based on the instructed torque and the torque optimizing efficiency, a torque distribution value for each motor; and controls torque distribution to each motor, within a range of the slip rate being 0 to 0.2 and based on the torque distribution values.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kato, Eiji Muramatsu, Chihiro Kawabata, Kazutoshi Kitano, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Yoshikazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20140300247Abstract: A reactive ionic liquid to be used as an ionic component that is contained in an ion-containing layer in a transducer arranged in contact with a high-resistance layer as a dielectric layer of the transducer, and is restrained from migrating from the ion-containing layer to the high-resistance layer on application of a voltage is provided. The reactive ionic liquid comprises an ion pair that consists of an anion and a cation. In the reactive ionic liquid, (a) the anion comprises (a1) a reactive group that consists of an alkoxysilyl group and (a2) an anionic group consisting of a carboxylate (—COO?) group or a sulfonate (—SO3?) group. (b) The cation (b1) consists of an imidazolium, ammonium, pyrrolidinium, morpholinium, or phosphonium cation, and (b2) does not comprise an N—H group or a P—H group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Shigeaki TAKAMATSU, Ryosuke MATSUNO, Shingi KUMAGAI, Yota KOKUBO, Kazunobu HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi YOSHIKAWA, Atsushi TAKAHARA, Hideyuki OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20140296761Abstract: Provided is a joint movement aid, which has a simple structure and is lightweight and which a user can easily put on and take off, and which has a novel structure capable of safely supporting a walking without impeding a user's autonomous fall-preventing movement even in a case of a disturbance such as external force on the user in a transverse direction. The walking movement aid includes a right and left pair of assisting units provided with drive sources, which exert a pulling force on flexible auxiliary force transmission parts, and a control member for controlling the respective drive sources of the assisting units corresponding to changes in a joint angle with user's hip joints.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Motoji YAMAMOTO, Shin-ichiro TAKASUGI, Yukihide IWAMOTO, Masanori SATO, Kazunobu HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 8849538Abstract: A torque distribution apparatus includes an instructed torque acquiring unit that acquires input instructed torque, a determining unit that determines whether to perform power running control or regenerative braking, an efficiency map acquiring unit that based on a determination result, acquires a motor efficiency map, a vehicular speed detecting unit, a drive wheel rotational speed detecting, a slip rate calculating unit that calculates slip rate at drive wheels, a calculating unit that based on the slip rate, creates an efficiency variation expression that indicates efficiency values on a performance curve that indicates relations between drive wheel rotational speed and torque, a distributing unit that calculates based on the slip rate, the instructed torque, and the torque optimizing efficiency, torque distribution values such that overall efficiency during power running and during regeneration are maximized, and a control unit that controls torque distribution to the motors.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kato, Eiji Muramatsu, Kazutoshi Kitano, Chihiro Kawabata, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Yoshikazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8770045Abstract: A purpose is to provide a sensor assembly and a sensor module having a flexible sensor element that uses polymer material and having a component such as the sensor element and the like that hardly deteriorates and is superior in durability. A sensor assembly includes a sensor element and an exterior packaging bag enclosing the sensor element. The sensor element includes a sensor thin film made of resin or elastomer, and at least one pair of electrodes connected to the sensor thin film. The exterior packaging bag is made from laminate films having a metal foil and two resin layers arranged sandwiching the metal foil.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Murayama, Yuuki Saitou, Tomonori Hayakawa, Kazunobu Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20140163435Abstract: A swinging leg pendulum movement aid for walking including a pair of assisting units for a left leg and a right leg each having a drive source for applying a pulling force to an auxiliary force transmission part, a joint angle sensor for detecting a joint angle of user's hip joints, and a control member for driving the drive sources of the respective assisting units corresponding to changes in the joint angle and applying an assistance force in a forward swinging direction to the swinging leg that kicked off a ground so as to aid a pendulum movement of the swinging leg.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventors: Motoji YAMAMOTO, Shin-ichiro TAKASUGI, Masanori SATO, Takahiro KOMATSU, Kazunobu HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20140067181Abstract: A torque distribution apparatus acquires an instructed torque input and a motor efficiency map for motors; detects vehicular speed and drive wheel rotational speed; calculates based on the detected speeds, a relational expression of drive wheel slip rate and a friction coefficient; creates based on the relational expression, a performance curve expression indicating relations between torque and the drive wheel rotational speed, superimposes the performance curve expression on the motor efficiency map, creates an efficiency variation expression indicating for each vehicular speed, the torque and efficiency values of the motor efficiency map, and calculates a torque that optimizes efficiency from the efficiency variation expression; calculates based on the instructed torque and the torque optimizing efficiency, a torque distribution value for each motor; and controls torque distribution to each motor, within a range of the slip rate being 0 to 0.2 and based on the torque distribution values.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Eiji Muramatsu, Chihiro Kawabata, Kazutoshi Kitano, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Yoshikazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20140046568Abstract: A torque distribution apparatus includes an instructed torque acquiring unit that acquires input instructed torque, a determining unit that determines whether to perform power running control or regenerative braking, an efficiency map acquiring unit that based on a determination result, acquires a motor efficiency map, a vehicular speed detecting unit, a drive wheel rotational speed detecting, a slip rate calculating unit that calculates slip rate at drive wheels, a calculating unit that based on the slip rate, creates an efficiency variation expression that indicates efficiency values on a performance curve that indicates relations between drive wheel rotational speed and torque, a distributing unit that calculates based on the slip rate, the instructed torque, and the torque optimizing efficiency, torque distribution values such that overall efficiency during power running and during regeneration are maximized, and a control unit that controls torque distribution to the motors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Eiji Muramatsu, Kazutoshi Kitano, Chihiro Kawabata, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Yoshikazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20140018988Abstract: An efficiency map generating apparatus (100) generates an efficiency map of motors (M) connected to drive wheels of a mobile body and includes an instructed torque detecting unit (111) that detects an instructed torque input for the multiple motors (M), a torque distributing unit (112) that distributes torque to each of the multiple motors (M) based on the instructed torque, a power consumption detecting unit (113) that detects power consumption of the motors (M), a rotation count detecting unit (103) that detects the rotation counts of the motors (M), and an efficiency map generating unit (114) that generates a motor efficiency map (115) based on the torque in multiple combinations, the power consumption, and the rotation counts, where the torque distributing unit (112) causes any of the multiple motors (M) to generate regenerative torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2011Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutoshi Kitano, Masahiro Kato, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Chihiro Kawabata, Eiji Muramatsu