Patents by Inventor Ken MOTOHASHI
Ken MOTOHASHI 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: 20230067203Abstract: An optical device provided with an optical parts position adjusting and fixing device for adjusting and fixing the position of the optical parts moving in an optical axis direction, wherein the position adjusting and fixing device is provided with a long slotted hole extended in the optical axis direction formed on a side surface of the optical parts; a fixing means which is mounted on an object to be fixed of the optical parts and which is movable along the long slotted hole; a non-penetrating screw hole formed in the fixing means and which is divided by a slit; and a screw which is screwed into the screw hole and spreads the slit when screwed into the screw hole so as to press the outer surface of the fixing means against the inner surface of the long slotted hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Yuki Tanaka, Ken Motohashi
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Patent number: 11519519Abstract: A sleeve is provided inside a body configuring a channel selector valve, and first and second guide portions with which outer peripheries of first and second land portions of a valve body are in sliding contact are formed on one end side and the other end side of the sleeve. The first and second guide portions are formed to axially overlap with the first and second land portions so as to abut the first and second land portions at all times when the valve body axially moves. The valve body includes a plurality of communicating paths penetrating through the valve body in the axial direction, and, in the sleeve, a first space formed on one end side of the valve body and a second space formed on the other end side of the valve body communicate with each other via the communicating paths.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Oikawa, Yuta Soma, Ken Motohashi, Yuji Ito
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Patent number: 10794688Abstract: An interferometric optical device that measures the curved wall shape of a cylindrical object and includes: an interferometric optical system that emits measurement light at the curved wall of the object, collects the light reflected by the object, and creates a composite wave that combines the reflected light and a reference light; a rotation drive assembly that is connected to the interferometric optical system and rotationally displaces the interferometric optical system centered about a rotation axis that coincides with a center axis of the cylindrical shape of the object; a sensor that acquires a two-dimensional distribution of the intensity of the composite wave using a plurality of photoreceptor elements arrayed two-dimensionally; and a computation device that computes the internal wall shape of the object based on the plurality of two-dimensional distributions acquired in a state where a rotation angle for the rotation drive mechanism varies.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Motohashi, Johannes Anna Quaedackers, Adriaan Tiemen Zuiderweg
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Publication number: 20200309281Abstract: A sleeve is provided inside a body configuring a channel selector valve, and first and second guide portions with which outer peripheries of first and second land portions of a valve body are in sliding contact are formed on one end side and the other end side of the sleeve. The first and second guide portions are formed to axially overlap with the first and second land portions so as to abut the first and second land portions at all times when the valve body axially moves. The valve body includes a plurality of communicating paths penetrating through the valve body in the axial direction, and, in the sleeve, a first space formed on one end side of the valve body and a second space formed on the other end side of the valve body communicate with each other via the communicating paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Naoki Oikawa, Yuta Soma, Ken Motohashi, Yuji Ito
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Publication number: 20190277628Abstract: An interferometric optical device that measures the curved wall shape of a cylindrical object and includes: an interferometric optical system that emits measurement light at the curved wall of the object, collects the light reflected by the object, and creates a composite wave that combines the reflected light and a reference light; a rotation drive assembly that is connected to the interferometric optical system and rotationally displaces the interferometric optical system centered about a rotation axis that coincides with a center axis of the cylindrical shape of the object; a sensor that acquires a two-dimensional distribution of the intensity of the composite wave using a plurality of photoreceptor elements arrayed two-dimensionally; and a computation device that computes the internal wall shape of the object based on the plurality of two-dimensional distributions acquired in a state where a rotation angle for the rotation drive mechanism varies.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Ken MOTOHASHI, Johannes Anna QUAEDACKERS, Adriaan Tiemen ZUIDERWEG
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Patent number: 10295337Abstract: A surface texture measuring apparatus includes an X axis displacement mechanism and a Y axis displacement mechanism displacing a measurable object having an interior wall along an XY plane; a measurement sensor measuring a surface texture of the interior wall without contact; a Z axis displacement mechanism displacing the measurement sensor in a Z axis direction orthogonal to the XY plane and bringing the measurement sensor to face the interior wall; a W axis displacement mechanism displacing the measurement sensor facing the interior wall in a normal direction of the interior wall; and a ? axis displacement mechanism displacing the measurement sensor facing the interior wall along the interior wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Sadayuki Matsumiya, Shuichi Kamiyama, Hidemitsu Asano, Hiroshi Sakai, Hiromu Maie, Yoshihiko Takahashi, Masanori Arai, Ken Motohashi
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Patent number: 10161747Abstract: A surface texture measuring apparatus includes: a measurement sensor measuring, without contact, a surface texture of an interior wall of a cylinder portion of a measurable object while displacing in a normal direction of the interior wall at each measurement region into which the interior wall is divided in a circumferential direction of the cylinder portion; a W axis displacer displacing the measurement sensor in a W axis direction; a ? axis displacer displacing the measurement sensor in the circumferential direction, after measurement of the surface texture of a first measurement region, such that the measurement sensor faces a second measurement region adjacent to the first measurement region in the circumferential direction; and a controller adjusting a W axis direction measurement position for measuring the surface texture of the second measurement region while displacing the measurement sensor in the W axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Sakai, Tetsuya Ito, Ken Motohashi
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Patent number: 10024648Abstract: The present invention provides an interference measuring device with an optical system that can receive light reflected from a measurement object of a surface profile that is not perpendicular to an optical axis. An interference measuring device includes a light source for emitting light and an interferometric objective lens. The interferometric objective lens includes a reference mirror disposed in a reference beam path and a beam splitter that splits the incident light into a beam traveling along the reference beam path and a beam traveling along a measurement beam path. The beam splitter also combines the beam reflected off the reference mirror with the beam reflected off a measurement object disposed in the measurement beam path before emitting the combined beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Nagahama, Ken Motohashi, Han Haitjema, Johannes Anna Quaedackers
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Patent number: 9964174Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator for an active vibration isolation system, the electromagnetic actuator includes: a fixed core; a movable core that is opposed to the fixed core and is joined to a vibration member; and a coil unit having coils that surround part of the fixed core and the movable core. The movable core and the vibration member are vibrated in a reciprocating manner by energization to the coils, and the coils include a main coil to which an alternating current with a waveform corresponding to vibrations of a vibration generation source is input and a sub-coil that amplifies magnetic flux generated by the main coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATIONInventor: Ken Motohashi
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Patent number: 9921391Abstract: An interference objective lens includes: an objective lens system; a beam splitter which is placed between a measurement surface of a measuring object and a tip end of the objective lens, which diverges light emitted from the objective lens into a reference optical path and a measurement optical path, and which outputs combined wave in which reflection light passing through the reference optical path and reflection light passing through the measuring object are combined; a reference mirror which is placed in the reference optical path and which reflects, by the beam splitter, light diverged into the reference optical path; a mirror holding member which has a spherical surface-shaped outer surface, and which holds the reference mirror such that a reflection surface of the reference mirror passes through a center of a spherical surface; a support member which has a spherical surface-shaped inner surface having a diameter which is substantially equal to the outer surface of the mirror holding member, and which sType: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventor: Ken Motohashi
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Publication number: 20170363411Abstract: The present invention provides an interference measuring device with an optical system that can receive light reflected from a measurement object of a surface profile that is not perpendicular to an optical axis. An interference measuring device includes a light source for emitting light and an interferometric objective lens. The interferometric objective lens includes a reference mirror disposed in a reference beam path and a beam splitter that splits the incident light into a beam traveling along the reference beam path and a beam traveling along a measurement beam path. The beam splitter also combines the beam reflected off the reference mirror with the beam reflected off a measurement object disposed in the measurement beam path before emitting the combined beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Tatsuya Nagahama, Ken Motohashi, Han Haitjema, Johannes Anna Quaedackers
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Publication number: 20170248416Abstract: A surface texture measuring apparatus includes: a measurement sensor measuring, without contact, a surface texture of an interior wall of a cylinder portion of a measurable object while displacing in a normal direction of the interior wall at each measurement region into which the interior wall is divided in a circumferential direction of the cylinder portion; a W axis displacer displacing the measurement sensor in a W axis direction; a ? axis displacer displacing the measurement sensor in the circumferential direction, after measurement of the surface texture of a first measurement region, such that the measurement sensor faces a second measurement region adjacent to the first measurement region in the circumferential direction; and a controller adjusting a W axis direction measurement position for measuring the surface texture of the second measurement region while displacing the measurement sensor in the W axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi SAKAI, Tetsuya ITO, Ken MOTOHASHI
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Publication number: 20170248415Abstract: A surface texture measuring apparatus includes an X axis displacement mechanism and a Y axis displacement mechanism displacing a measurable object having an interior wall along an XY plane; a measurement sensor measuring a surface texture of the interior wall without contact; a Z axis displacement mechanism displacing the measurement sensor in a Z axis direction orthogonal to the XY plane and bringing the measurement sensor to face the interior wall; a W axis displacement mechanism displacing the measurement sensor facing the interior wall in a normal direction of the interior wall; and a ? axis displacement mechanism displacing the measurement sensor facing the interior wall along the interior wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Sadayuki MATSUMIYA, Shuichi KAMIYAMA, Hidemitsu ASANO, Hiroshi SAKAI, Hiromu MAIE, Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Masanori ARAI, Ken MOTOHASHI
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Patent number: 9618321Abstract: An interference measuring device comprises: a light source; a beam splitter that causes the light to diverge into a reference optical path and a measurement optical path and that outputs a combined wave in which reflection light passed the reference optical path and reflection light passed the measurement optical path are combined; a reference light diverging part that causes the light diverged into the reference optical path, to further diverge into a plurality of optical paths and that causes reflection light beams respectively passed the optical paths to be input into the beam splitter; and a plurality of reference mirrors that are respectively arranged in the optical paths such that optical path lengths of the optical paths are different from each other, and that reflect reference light. An interference image is imaged by varying the optical path length of either the reference optical path or the measurement optical path.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Motohashi, Atsushi Usami
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Publication number: 20160195384Abstract: An interference objective lens includes: an objective lens system; a beam splitter which is placed between a measurement surface of a measuring object and a tip end of the objective lens, which diverges light emitted from the objective lens into a reference optical path and a measurement optical path, and which outputs combined wave in which reflection light passing through the reference optical path and reflection light passing through the measuring object are combined; a reference mirror which is placed in the reference optical path and which reflects, by the beam splitter, light diverged into the reference optical path; a mirror holding member which has a spherical surface-shaped outer surface, and which holds the reference mirror such that a reflection surface of the reference mirror passes through a center of a spherical surface; a support member which has a spherical surface-shaped inner surface having a diameter which is substantially equal to the outer surface of the mirror holding member, and which sType: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventor: Ken Motohashi
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Publication number: 20160084337Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator for an active vibration isolation system, the electromagnetic actuator includes: a fixed core; a movable core that is opposed to the fixed core and is joined to a vibration member; and a coil unit having coils that surround part of the fixed core and the movable core. The movable core and the vibration member are vibrated in a reciprocating manner by energization to the coils, and the coils include a main coil to which an alternating current with a waveform corresponding to vibrations of a vibration generation source is input and a sub-coil that amplifies magnetic flux generated by the main coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: KEIHIN CORPORATIONInventor: Ken Motohashi
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Publication number: 20150285619Abstract: An interference measuring device comprises: a light source; a beam splitter that causes the light to diverge into a reference optical path and a measurement optical path and that outputs a combined wave in which reflection light passed the reference optical path and reflection light passed the measurement optical path are combined; a reference light diverging part that causes the light diverged into the reference optical path, to further diverge into a plurality of optical paths and that causes reflection light beams respectively passed the optical paths to be input into the beam splitter; and a plurality of reference mirrors that are respectively arranged in the optical paths such that optical path lengths of the optical paths are different from each other, and that reflect reference light. An interference image is imaged by varying the optical path length of either the reference optical path or the measurement optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Ken MOTOHASHI, Atsushi USAMI