Patents by Inventor Keisuke Toda
Keisuke Toda 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: 20240230507Abstract: A feature value calculation device is a feature value calculation device that calculates a feature value indicating optical characteristics of an object to be measured in a flow cytometry method, the device including: a signal information acquisition unit to acquire signal information indicating a temporal change in intensity of the electromagnetic waves which is generated by a light detector receiving the modulated electromagnetic waves from the object to be measured; a region setting unit that sets a region to be processed in waveform data in which a feature value is calculated in a domain of the waveform data based on the signal information acquired by the signal information acquisition unit; and a feature value calculation unit that calculates the feature value from the waveform data in the region set by the region setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: ThinkCyte, Inc.Inventors: Keiji NAKAGAWA, Keisuke TODA
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Publication number: 20240183773Abstract: A flow cytometer includes: a microfluidic device; a light source that irradiates illumination light toward an observation object flowing through a flow path; an illumination optical system that shapes the illumination light irradiated by the light source into an illumination light of which a length in a length direction of the flow path is equal to or greater than a length in a width direction of the flow path at an irradiation position of the flow path and irradiates the shaped illumination light; a mask for structured detection that has a binary pattern of transmitting portions and blocking portions; an imaging optical system that images scattered light emitted from the observation object on the mask for structured detection by irradiation of the illumination light shaped by the illumination optical system; and a photodetector that detects the scattered light transmitted through the transmitting portions of the mask for structured detection, wherein a propagation path of direct light, which has been transmiType: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: ThinkCyte K. K.Inventors: Keisuke Toda, Toru Imai
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Publication number: 20240027244Abstract: A measurement device includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a computation processor. The light emitter irradiates, with light, a fluid of an irradiation target. The light receiver receives coherent light scattered by the irradiation target and outputs a signal corresponding to an intensity of the coherent light. The computation processor generates a frequency spectrum for a temporal change in a signal strength and calculates, based on the frequency spectrum, a calculation value for a flow state of the fluid flowing in the irradiation target. The computation processor generates a first frequency spectrum with the fluid in a first flow state, generates a second frequency spectrum with the fluid in a second flow state in which the fluid has a flow rate lower than in the first flow state, and calculates a usable frequency range based on a comparison between the first frequency spectrum and the second frequency spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Keisuke TODA, Shunsuke KUDOU
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Publication number: 20230349738Abstract: A first shield case covers an amplifier on a second surface of a wiring board. A sensor on a first surface of the board includes a light emitter that illuminates, with light, an illumination target having a space in which a fluid flows, a light receiver that receives coherent light including light scattered by the target in the light from the light emitter and outputs an output signal corresponding to intensity of the coherent light, and a package accommodating the emitter and the receiver and including a first wire. The amplifier amplifies the output signal. The calculator calculates a value indicating a flow state of the fluid based on the output signal amplified by the amplifier. The first wire surrounds the emitter and the receiver in a plan or transparent plan view of the package. The first wire and the first shield case are electrically connected to a ground wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Shougo MATSUNAGA, Keisuke TODA
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Publication number: 20230266229Abstract: A flow cytometer includes: a light source; a microfluidic device; a photodetector; an information generation device which generates optical information indicating a morphology of an observation target on the basis of optical signal intensity; and a spatial light modulation unit which is installed on an optical path between the light source and the photodetector and structures any one of illumination light irradiated from the light source toward the flow path and signal light from the observation target.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: ThinkCyte K.K.Inventors: Toru Imai, Hiroaki Adachi, Keisuke Toda
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Patent number: 11713988Abstract: A flow rate-velocity sensor device includes a package including a light receiver and a light emitter, a transparent substrate including a light shield, and a flow rate-velocity calculator. The flow rate-velocity calculator includes a receiver, a correction unit, an arithmetic unit, and a transmitter. The receiver receives data on a first power spectrum. The correction unit corrects the data received by the receiver to calculate a second power spectrum. The arithmetic unit calculates at least one of a flow rate or a flow velocity from the second power spectrum calculated by the correction unit. The transmitter transmits, to an external unit, at least one of the flow rate or the flow velocity calculated by the arithmetic unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Keisuke Toda, Shougo Matsunaga, Yushi Nagasaka
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Publication number: 20230172775Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint mechanism that renders easy alignment between a striker and a latch. One mode of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint mechanism for restraining a wheelchair to a restraining member installed on a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint mechanism includes an engagement target portion and an engagement portion. The engagement target portion includes a striker having a rod shape extending in up-down directions. The engagement portion includes: a housing member to house the striker; a latch to limit separation of the striker from the housing member; and a guide member to guide the striker towards the housing member. The guide member includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface, which face each other in width directions of the wheelchair and have a distance therebetween decreasing towards the housing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Keisuke TODA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Jacob RICHTER, Chandra JINKA, Doug KRUEGER, Tracy JOSEPH, Enoch MORISHIMA
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Publication number: 20230172776Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint apparatus that renders easy adjustment of a restraining position of a wheelchair inside a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint apparatus configured to restrain a wheelchair inside a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint apparatus includes a main body having a seat belt, and a restrained mechanism to and from which the wheelchair is attachable and detachable; and a slide mechanism configured to cause the main body to slide with respect to the vehicle. The restraint mechanism is configured to restrain the wheelchair in a state where a part of the wheelchair is inserted to the restraint mechanism in a traveling direction of the wheelchair.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Keisuke TODA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Jacob RICHTER, Chandra JINKA, Doug KRUEGER, Tracy JOSEPH, Enoch MORISHIMA
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Publication number: 20230090631Abstract: This flow cytometer includes a flow path through which an observation object flows with a fluid; an optical illumination system including a spatial optical modulation device, and a first optical element; and an optical detection system including a first light detector, wherein the optical illumination system further includes a first spatial filter disposed in a first optical path between a light source and an image position of light imaged in the flow path by the first optical element and having a first region which hinders traveling of light emitted from the light source towards the observation object, the optical detection system further includes a second light detector disposed in a second optical path between the first light detector and the image position and having a second region which directs the light modulated by the observation object towards the first light detector, and the position of the first region and the position of the second region are in a substantially optically conjugate relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Toru Imai, Keisuke Toda, Sadao Ota
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Publication number: 20230039952Abstract: A flow cell of the flow cytometer of the present invention includes: a sample flow path through which a sample fluid containing a sample flows; and a sample fluid supply portion which communicates with an upstream end of the sample flow path in the sample fluid flow direction and supplies the sample fluid to the sample flow path, wherein the sample fluid supply portion includes a plurality of sample opening portions which supply a sample fluid to the sample flow path, a cleaning liquid supply opening portion to which a second tube is connectable and which supplies a cleaning liquid for cleaning the sample fluid supply portion, and a cleaning liquid discharge opening portion to which a first tube is connectable and which discharges the cleaning liquid from the sample fluid supply portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: ThinkCyte K.K.Inventors: Yoko KAWAMURA, Keiji NAKAGAWA, Keisuke TODA
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Publication number: 20220378304Abstract: A measurement device includes a light emitter, a light receiver, an extractor, and a processor. The light emitter illuminates an illumination target having an internal space through which a fluid flows. The light receiver receives coherent light including light scattered by the illumination target and outputs a signal corresponding to intensity of the coherent light. The extractor extracts a direct-current component from the signal output from the light receiver at a temporal change in strength of the signal. The processor calculates a calculation value for a flow state of the fluid by performing a process on the signal output from the light receiver. The process includes correction using a value of signal strength of the direct-current component and calculation of a frequency spectrum for the signal at the temporal change in the signal strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Keisuke TODA, Shougo MATSUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220054027Abstract: An optical sensor device includes an optical sensor and a mounting board. The optical sensor includes a substrate, a light receiver, a light emitter, and a transparent substrate. The substrate has a first recess and a second recess at a distance from the first recess. The light receiver is located in the first recess. The light emitter is located in the second recess and at a distance from the light receiver. The transparent substrate is located on a first upper surface of the substrate, bonded to the substrate, and covers the first recess and the second recess. The optical sensor is mounted with a first lower surface being oblique to a second lower surface of the mounting board.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Keisuke TODA
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Publication number: 20220039675Abstract: A measurement device includes a light emitter, a light receiver, an amplifier, and a computation processor. The light emitter irradiates, with light, an irradiation target having an internal space through which a fluid flows. The light receiver receives coherent light including light scattered by the irradiation target and outputs a signal corresponding to intensity of the coherent light. The amplifier amplifies the signal output from the light receiver. The computation processor calculates a first frequency spectrum of signal strength for each frequency with respect to a temporal strength change in the signal amplified by the amplifier, and calculates a calculation value on a flow state of the fluid with a computation including division using a first value and a second value. The first value is a value of a frequency based on the first frequency spectrum. The second value is a value of strength based on the first frequency spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Shougo MATSUNAGA, Keisuke TODA, Hiroshige ITOU, Naoki HORINOUCHI
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Publication number: 20210025742Abstract: A flow rate-velocity sensor device includes a package including a light receiver and a light emitter, a transparent substrate including a light shield, and a flow rate-velocity calculator. The flow rate-velocity calculator includes a receiver, a correction unit, an arithmetic unit, and a transmitter. The receiver receives data on a first power spectrum. The correction unit corrects the data received by the receiver to calculate a second power spectrum. The arithmetic unit calculates at least one of a flow rate or a flow velocity from the second power spectrum calculated by the correction unit. The transmitter transmits, to an external unit, at least one of the flow rate or the flow velocity calculated by the arithmetic unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Keisuke TODA, Shougo MATSUNAGA, Yushi NAGASAKA
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Patent number: 10843610Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a headrest body provided at an upper portion of a seat back rotatably supported by a seat cushion on which an occupant is seated. The headrest body is covered with a skin material. The headrest body includes a driving body that is configured to form a swelling portion that is a portion of the skin material in a seat-height direction swelling toward a front side of the seat at a surface of a seat front side of the skin material and change a formation position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction by being operated inside the headrest body.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita Iwasaki, Keisuke Toda
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Patent number: 10814748Abstract: A vehicle seat structure including a first seat and a second seat, wherein the first seat includes: a tilting rotation mechanism configured to connect the first seat with respect to a floor in a manner switchable between a sitting position and a raised position; and a pivoting mechanism configured to pivotably connect the first seat to the floor with the tilting rotation mechanism provided therebetween, and wherein the second seat includes a concave portion configured to reduce interference between the second seat and a forefoot of a sitting occupant of the first seat which is being pivoted in the raised position when the second seat and the first seat are in a positional relationship in which the second seat overlaps, in a plan view, with a pivoting trajectory of the forefoot of the sitting occupant of the first seat which is being pivoted in the raised position.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji, Keisuke Toda, Hajime Takagi
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Patent number: 10694858Abstract: An air conditioning seat including: a blowing path through which air is blown out from a seat surface, the blowing path including a panel member, the panel member including: an air distribution plate portion which has a vertical plate shape, extends to project from a seat side portion to a seat surface side, and in which air flows along an inner side surface thereof in a seat width direction, and a bent plate portion which is bent inward in the seat width direction from a part of the air distribution plate portion which projects further than a seat top surface, and which is configured to discharge the air flowing toward the seat surface side along the air distribution plate portion by bending the air inward in the seat width direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Toda, Fumitoshi Akaike
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Publication number: 20190359086Abstract: A vehicle seat structure including a first seat and a second seat, wherein the first seat includes: a tilting rotation mechanism configured to connect the first seat with respect to a floor in a manner switchable between a sitting position and a raised position; and a pivoting mechanism configured to pivotably connect the first seat to the floor with the tilting rotation mechanism provided therebetween, and wherein the second seat includes a concave portion configured to reduce interference between the second seat and a forefoot of a sitting occupant of the first seat which is being pivoted in the raised position when the second seat and the first seat are in a positional relationship in which the second seat overlaps, in a plan view, with a pivoting trajectory of the forefoot of the sitting occupant of the first seat which is being pivoted in the raised position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Hiroshi TSUJI, Keisuke TODA, Hajime TAKAGI
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Patent number: 10434911Abstract: A vehicle seat includes; a pair of frame members, the frame members forming a frame of at least one of a seat cushion and a seat back and being disposed at positions surrounding a seat region supporting an occupant with an interval therebetween; and a cloth spring member bridged between the frame members to cover the seat region. The cloth spring member has a shorter length in a bridging direction at least on one end side of the frame member in a longitudinal direction of the frame member than in a center portion of the frame member in the longitudinal direction; and the cloth spring member has elasticity.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shota Higashihara, Keisuke Toda
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Publication number: 20190142172Abstract: An air conditioning seat including: a blowing path through which air is blown out from a seat surface, the blowing path including a panel member, the panel member including: an air distribution plate portion which has a vertical plate shape, extends to project from a seat side portion to a seat surface side, and in which air flows along an inner side surface thereof in a seat width direction, and a bent plate portion which is bent inward in the seat width direction from a part of the air distribution plate portion which projects further than a seat top surface, and which is configured to discharge the air flowing toward the seat surface side along the air distribution plate portion by bending the air inward in the seat width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2018Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke TODA, Fumitoshi AKAIKE