Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Abe

Kenichiro Abe 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).

  • Publication number: 20260093090
    Abstract: The objective includes a first lens group having positive power and a second lens group having negative power and including a pair of meniscus lens components having concave surfaces facing each other. The first lens group includes a first lens situated closest to an object side and has positive power with a concave surface facing the object side. The objective includes three or more cemented lenses arranged closer to the object side than the pair of meniscus lens components, and satisfies the following conditional expressions. 2.6 ? ? L ? 1 / D L ? 1 ? 16 ( 1 ) 0.1 ? ? "\[LeftBracketingBar]" R 2 ? 1 ? 2 ? "\[RightBracketingBar]" / f ? 3.5 ( 2 ) Here, ?L1 and DL1 are an outer diameter and a thickness of the first lens. R212 is a radius of curvature of a surface closest to the image side in a first meniscus lens component among the pair of meniscus lens components. f is a focal length of the objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Applicant: Evident Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro ABE
  • Patent number: 12544917
    Abstract: A device for acquiring a positional relationship between a robot coordinate system set in a robot and a working machine coordinate system set in a working machine installed outside the robot, includes a position data acquisition unit that acquires, when a finger part of the robot is placed in a predetermined position and posture with respect to the working machine, first position data indicating the position and posture of the finger part with respect to the robot coordinate system, and second position data indicating the position and the posture of the finger part with respect to the working machine coordinate system; and a positional relationship acquisition unit that acquires third position data indicating the positional relationship using the first position data and the second position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Watanabe, Masahiro Morioka, Kenichiro Abe, Seigo Kato, Hiroyuki Uchida, Zheng Tong, Masanori Itou
  • Publication number: 20260036800
    Abstract: An objective includes a first lens group, a second lens group configured to move along an optical axis, a third lens group having two or more cemented surfaces, and a fourth lens group including a lens having a convex surface directed to the object side, a lens having a concave surface on an image side, a lens having a concave surface on the object side, and a lens having a convex surface on the image side. The first lens group has three or more lens components including a lens component in which a positive lens having a convex surface on the image side and a meniscus lens having a concave surface on the object side are cemented on outermost object side, and none of the three or more lens components is a cemented lens in which a negative lens is disposed closer to the object side than a positive lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Applicant: Evident Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro ABE
  • Patent number: 12539614
    Abstract: Provided is a remote support system with a higher level of safety. The remote support system includes a control device configured to control an industrial machine, a first information processing terminal connected to the control device, and one or more second information processing terminals capable of controlling the first information processing terminal. The control device is controllable from one or more second information processing terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuuhei Ogawa, Tomonori Arai, Norimichi Yoshida, Seigo Kato, Kenichiro Abe, Masahiro Morioka
  • Patent number: 12535649
    Abstract: The objective includes a first lens group having positive power and a second lens group having negative power and including a pair of meniscus lens components having concave surfaces facing each other. The first lens group includes a first lens situated closest to an object side and has positive power with a concave surface facing the object side. The objective includes three or more cemented lenses arranged closer to the object side than the pair of meniscus lens components, and satisfies the following conditional expressions. 2.6??L1/DL1?16??(1) 0.1?|R212|/f?3.5??(2) Here, ?L1 and DL1 are an outer diameter and a thickness of the first lens. R212 is a radius of curvature of a surface closest to the image side in a first meniscus lens component among the pair of meniscus lens components. f is a focal length of the objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Evident Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Abe
  • Patent number: 12493165
    Abstract: An objective includes a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group including a pair of lens components having concave surfaces facing each other, and a third lens group having positive power, and the pair of lens components is cemented lenses, and the following conditional expression is satisfied. 0.20?d2/L?0.5??(1) where d2 is a distance between a surface situated closest to an image side in a first lens component and a surface situated closest to the object side in a second lens component, the first lens component being a lens component situated on the object side and the second lens component being a lens component situated on the image side of the pair of lens components. L is a distance between a surface situated closest to the object side and a surface situated closest to the image side in the objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: Evident Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Abe, Shinya Sakata
  • Patent number: 12455432
    Abstract: An objective includes a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group including a pair of lens components having concave surfaces facing each other, and a third lens group having positive power, and the pair of lens components is cemented lenses, and the following conditional expression is satisfied. 0.20?d2/L?0.5??(1) where d2 is a distance between a surface situated closest to an image side in a first lens component and a surface situated closest to the object side in a second lens component, the first lens component being a lens component situated on the object side and the second lens component being a lens component situated on the image side of the pair of lens components. L is a distance between a surface situated closest to the object side and a surface situated closest to the image side in the objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Evident Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Abe, Shinya Sakata
  • Patent number: 12327665
    Abstract: A resistor material including a plurality of crystalline phases having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance, and an amorphous phase having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and having a resistivity higher than the crystalline phase, in a mixed state, is provided. Moreover, a resistor element having a resistor film configured by the resistor material described above, and a method of manufacturing a resistor element by forming a film of an amorphous material having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and subjecting this film to an annealing treatment to obtain the resistor element described above, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Ito, Yorinobu Kunimune, Kenichiro Abe, Nobuhito Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20240402686
    Abstract: A remote support system includes a control device configured to control an industrial machine, a first information processing terminal connected to the control device directly or via a network line, and a second information processing terminal connected to the control device or the first information processing terminal directly or via the network line. The remote support system is configured so that the first information processing terminal is able to permit/not permit remote operation of the control device or the first information processing terminal from the second information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIOKA, Norimichi YOSHIDA, Shuuhei OGAWA, Seigo KATO, Kenichiro ABE
  • Publication number: 20240269726
    Abstract: A method for producing an arm structure in which the arm structure is produced by: forming an arm precursor member having an external shape of the arm structure by, in a state in which a die is closed with a metal pipe member being disposed in a cavity thereof, pressurizing the pipe member with liquid supplied to an inside thereof to cause an external surface of the thus expanded pipe member to be pressed against an inner surface of the cavity; and forming a flange portion to be attached to a driven body by machining at least an end of the formed arm precursor member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicants: FANUC CORPORATION, TUBE FORMING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka NAKAYAMA, Kenichiro ABE, Masahiro MORIOKA, Yasutoyo OOKI, Keiichi TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20240261972
    Abstract: Provided is a remote support system with a higher level of safety. The remote support system includes a control device configured to control an industrial machine, a first information processing terminal connected to the control device, and one or more second information processing terminals capable of controlling the first information processing terminal. The control device is controllable from one or more second information processing terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shuuhei OGAWA, Tomonori ARAI, Norimichi YOSHIDA, Seigo KATO, Kenichiro ABE, Masahiro MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 11992869
    Abstract: A method for producing an arm structure in which the arm structure is produced by: forming an arm precursor member having an external shape of the arm structure by, in a state in which a die is closed with a metal pipe member being disposed in a cavity thereof, pressurizing the pipe member with liquid supplied to an inside thereof to cause an external surface of the thus expanded pipe member to be pressed against an inner surface of the cavity; and forming a flange portion to be attached to a driven body by machining at least an end of the formed arm precursor member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: FANUC CORPORATION, TUBE FORMING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Nakayama, Kenichiro Abe, Masahiro Morioka, Yasutoyo Ooki, Keiichi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20240051131
    Abstract: A gap detection device includes: a measurement unit measuring the driving torque or current value of a motor when the robot is actually being operated along an arbitrary motion trajectory; a simulation unit setting an arbitrary second gap amount between pairing elements of a plurality of pairing elements, performing a simulation in which the robot operates along the same arbitrary motion trajectory, and estimating the driving torque or the current value of the motor; a feature amount calculation unit calculating a first feature amount indicating fluctuations of a value related to the measured driving torque or current value, and a second feature amount indicating fluctuations of a value related to the estimated driving torque or current value; and a gap calculation unit calculating an index related to a first gap amount on the basis of the first feature amount, the second feature amount, and the second gap amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Kenichiro ABE, Hideo MATSUI, Tomoaki NAGAYAMA, Yukio TAKEDA, Masumi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20230373083
    Abstract: A device for acquiring a positional relationship between a robot coordinate system set in a robot and a working machine coordinate system set in a working machine installed outside the robot, includes a position data acquisition unit that acquires, when a finger part of the robot is placed in a predetermined position and posture with respect to the working machine, first position data indicating the position and posture of the finger part with respect to the robot coordinate system, and second position data indicating the position and the posture of the finger part with respect to the working machine coordinate system; and a positional relationship acquisition unit that acquires third position data indicating the positional relationship using the first position data and the second position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Watanabe, Masahiro Morioka, Kenichiro Abe, Seigo Kato, Hiroyuki Uchida, Zheng Tong, Masanori Itou
  • Publication number: 20230185054
    Abstract: The objective includes a first lens group having positive power and a second lens group having negative power and including a pair of meniscus lens components having concave surfaces facing each other. The first lens group includes a first lens situated closest to an object side and has positive power with a concave surface facing the object side. The objective includes three or more cemented lenses arranged closer to the object side than the pair of meniscus lens components, and satisfies the following conditional expressions. 2.6??L1/DL1?16??(1) 0.1?|R212|/f?3.5??(2) Here, ?L1 and DL1 are an outer diameter and a thickness of the first lens. R212 is a radius of curvature of a surface closest to the image side in a first meniscus lens component among the pair of meniscus lens components. f is a focal length of the objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Evident Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro ABE
  • Publication number: 20230185055
    Abstract: An objective includes a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group including a pair of lens components having concave surfaces facing each other, and a third lens group having positive power, and the pair of lens components is cemented lenses, and the following conditional expression is satisfied. 0.20?d2/L?0.5??(1) where d2 is a distance between a surface situated closest to an image side in a first lens component and a surface situated closest to the object side in a second lens component, the first lens component being a lens component situated on the object side and the second lens component being a lens component situated on the image side of the pair of lens components. L is a distance between a surface situated closest to the object side and a surface situated closest to the image side in the objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Evident Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro ABE, Shinya SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20230116260
    Abstract: A resistor material including a plurality of crystalline phases having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance, and an amorphous phase having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and having a resistivity higher than the crystalline phase, in a mixed state, is provided. Moreover, a resistor element having a resistor film configured by the resistor material described above, and a method of manufacturing a resistor element by forming a film of an amorphous material having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and subjecting this film to an annealing treatment to obtain the resistor element described above, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Nozomi ITO, Yorinobu KUNIMUNE, Kenichiro ABE, Nobuhito SHIRAISHI
  • Patent number: 11402618
    Abstract: A microscope objective includes: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power and includes a first cemented lens; and a second lens group, the first lens group and the second lens group having concave surfaces adjacent to and facing each other. The second lens group includes: at least one lens component that has a negative refractive power overall; a second cemented lens; and a single lens having a positive refractive power. An axial marginal light ray height is maximized at the lens surface of the microscope objective that is the closest to an image. The microscope objective satisfies the following conditional expression: ?0.38?Fs/FC2?0.38??(1) where FC2 indicates the focal length of the second cemented lens for an e line, and Fs indicates the focal length of the single lens for the e line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Yonemaru, Kenichiro Abe
  • Patent number: 11213527
    Abstract: A novel therapeutic drug for malignant tumors, cancer stem cells, or fibrosis is obtained. A therapeutic drug for malignant tumors or cancer stem cells is used that includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas (1), (2), and (5), a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof. Alternatively, a therapeutic drug for fibrosis can be used that includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas (1), (2), and (5), a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tottori University, KanonCure, Inc.
    Inventors: Goshi Shiota, Noriko Itaba, Keita Kanki, Kenzo Seto, Hiroki Shimizu, Yohei Kouno, Shinya Kunita, Zyunya Adumi, Tomohiko Sakabe, Kenichiro Abe, Minoru Morimoto, Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20210386747
    Abstract: A novel therapeutic drug for malignant tumors, cancer stem cells, or fibrosis is obtained. A therapeutic drug for malignant tumors or cancer stem cells is used that includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas (1), (2), and (5), a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof. Alternatively, a therapeutic drug for fibrosis can be used that includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas (1), (2), and (5), a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Goshi SHIOTA, Noriko ITABA, Keita KANKI, Kenzo SETO, Hiroki SHIMIZU, Yohei KOUNO, Shinya KUNITA, Zyunya ADUMI, Tomohiko SAKABE, Kenichiro ABE, Minoru MORIMOTO, Hiroyuki OKA