Patents by Inventor Kenji Inoue
Kenji Inoue 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: 12233841Abstract: A transmission controller is configured to control a transmission configured to transmit power between a primary shaft and a secondary shaft while changing a gear ratio between the primary shaft and the secondary shaft. includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to perform processing including: performing first control for upshifting the transmission when a target rotational speed of the primary shaft reaches or exceeds a first threshold; and performing second control for upshifting the transmission when an engine speed reaches or exceeds a second threshold. The second control is executed when the target rotational speed is higher than or equal to a set value set for each gear of the transmission, and is not executed when the target rotational speed is lower than the set value.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Kawakami, Kenji Inoue
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Publication number: 20250025973Abstract: A cutting machining device includes a head, a holding unit, and a controller. The holding unit includes a workpiece holding portion, a contact plug-that a tool fixed to the head is contactable, a cover having a box shape and having a first opening in which the contact plug-is detachably held in a position separated from a fixed section of the workpiece holding portion in a surrounding wall, and a touch sensor that detects contact of a tip portion of the tool with the contact plug. The controller includes a calculator that calculates a machining start position by the tool, based on an initial position of the head and a contact position of the head which is detected by using the touch sensor, when the tip portion of the tool comes into contact with the contact plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Koji TANAKA, Shuhei MURAOKA, Hidekazu TSUJI, Ryosuke YAMAZOE, Kenji INOUE, Akira NISHIKOHRI
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Publication number: 20240400033Abstract: A transmission controller is configured to control a transmission configured to transmit power between a primary shaft and a secondary shaft while changing a gear ratio between the primary shaft and the secondary shaft. includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to perform processing including: performing first control for upshifting the transmission when a target rotational speed of the primary shaft reaches or exceeds a first threshold; and performing second control for upshifting the transmission when an engine speed reaches or exceeds a second threshold. The second control is executed when the target rotational speed is higher than or equal to a set value set for each gear of the transmission, and is not executed when the target rotational speed is lower than the set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro KAWAKAMI, Kenji INOUE
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Publication number: 20240364083Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cable laying method that enables efficient work. A cable laying method according to the present invention includes: preparing a structure 31 having a hook 32; fixing a cable 50 to the hook 32 attached to a surface of the cap-type structure 31 on the ground in the vicinity of a pole 11 built on the ground 10; lifting the structure 31 up to the vicinity of a tip of the pole 11; and covering the tip of the pole 11 with the structure 31. This cable laying method eliminates the need to work in high places. This cable laying method is efficient because it eliminates the need to work in high places.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya MOKI, Kenji INOUE, Hidenobu HIROTA, Wataru KOKUBO, Yoshiyasu SATO
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Publication number: 20240352759Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pole erection method capable of efficiently and safely erecting a utility pole with a small number of operators even in a construction environment in which heavy machines cannot be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya MOKI, Yoshiyasu SATO, Wataru KOKUBO, Hidenobu HIROTA, Kenji INOUE
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Publication number: 20240295134Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a utility pole capable of generating oxygen, and an oxygen generation method using the utility pole. The present disclosure relates to a utility pole that is formed with a transparent material that transmits sunlight, the utility pole having a cylindrical trapezoidal shape with a thin upper portion and a thick lower portion, an upper portion of the internal space of the utility pole being open, a lower portion of the internal space being closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2021Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya MOKI, Kenji INOUE, Hidenobu HIROTA, Yoshiyasu SATO, Wataru KOKUBO
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Publication number: 20240291248Abstract: The present disclosure aims to reduce the weight of a utility pole. The present disclosure provides a utility pole that is formed with an organic material, and has a plurality of holes penetrating between the outside space and the internal space, the plurality of holes being formed in part of the side surface of a cylindrical trapezoid that has a thin upper portion and a thick lower portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2021Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya MOKI, Kenji INOUE, Hidenobu HIROTA, Yoshiyasu SATO, Wataru KOKUBO
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Publication number: 20240269792Abstract: A cutting machining apparatus 1 includes: a head 5 including a spindle drive 51 that rotary drives a rotary spindle with a tool 20 secured to a tip of the rotary spindle; a proximity sensor 34; a signal acquirer obtaining a signal waveform of a detection signal that is output from the proximity sensor 34 when the rotary spindle 52 is rotated in a state in which the head 5 is moved so that the proximity sensor 34 faces a lateral side of the tool before and after cutting machining of the workpiece W using the tool; and a determiner determining whether or not the tool 20 is broken based on whether or not there is a difference in signal waveforms obtained before and after the cutting machining.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Chiori Mochizuki, Hidekazu Tsuji, Koji Tanaka
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Patent number: 12049955Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller that switches a transmission mode of a transmission of a vehicle between an automatic shift mode and a temporary manual shift mode; and a storage unit storing maps each representing a relationship between a vehicle speed and an accelerator operation amount that are parameters for switching the transmission mode, and that are set for individual gradients of road on which the vehicle drives. The maps each include a cancellation region, a first maintenance region, and a second maintenance region, which are set to be different from each other according to the gradients. The controller includes a processor(s) and a memory(ies) coupled to the processor(s). The processor(s) executes a process including: selecting a map corresponding to a gradient of road on which the vehicle is driving; and switching the transmission mode based on the selected map, the vehicle speed and the accelerator operation amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Inoue, Akihiro Kawakami
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Publication number: 20240167294Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a utility pole capable of supplying rainwater to residents. The present disclosure is a utility pole including: a cylindrical structure that has one end opened and another end closed; and a water draining mechanism that discharges water inside the cylindrical structure on a side surface on a side of the other end.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Hidenobu HIROTA, Tatsuya MOKI, Kenji INOUE
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Publication number: 20240151058Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a utility pole and a method for constructing the utility pole, which can simplify and improve efficiency of work at the time of new construction and replacement and can shorten a work period. The anchor has a larger diameter than a body of a utility pole on the ground and has higher ground support force. Thus, the hole for building the assembly type utility pole on the ground can be made shallower than the hole for building the utility pole in related art on the ground. The depth of the hole is shallow, so that it is possible to reduce a period for digging, reduce a probability of hitting a buried object, and reduce work for confirming a buried object. In addition, the assembly type utility pole includes a plurality of parts, and thus, only a degraded portion needs to be replaced, so that it is possible to shorten replacement work.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya MOKI, Kenji INOUE, Hidenobu HIROTA, Yoshiyasu SATO
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Publication number: 20240115272Abstract: A cutting machining apparatus includes: a holding unit including a workpiece holder, a tool holder, and a unit body; a head positioned facing the holding unit and including a chuck holding a tool; an interior case of a box shape including, in a peripheral wall, a first opening through which the holding unit is inserted and a second opening through which the head is inserted and housing the workpiece holder, the tool holder, and the chuck disposed inside; a first cover occluding between the head and the outer periphery of the first opening of the interior case, a second cover occluding between the holding unit and the outer periphery of the second opening of the interior case, and a cooling source cooling the tool holder from within the unit body via a heat transfer member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuji, Chiori Mochizuki, Kenji Inoue, Koji Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240116115Abstract: A workpiece holder 1 includes a holder head 11 and a holder body 12. The holder head 11 includes a chuck unit 13 for holding a workpiece W, a support pedestal 111 for supporting the chuck unit 13, and a hook 113 provided on a distal end portion of an arm 112 extending from the support pedestal 111. The holder body 12 includes a cylindrical body portion 121, a retained portion 123 that is arranged inside the body portion 121 and rotated around the cylinder axis J1 to be in either a retained state in which the retained portion 123 is retained by the hook 113 on the ?Z direction side or in the released state in which retaining by the hook 113 is released, and a disk spring 126 for biasing the retained portion 123 in the ?Z direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Koji Tanaka, Chiori Mochizuki, Shingo Funai, Kenji Inoue
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Publication number: 20240102551Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller that switches a transmission mode of a transmission of a vehicle between an automatic shift mode and a temporary manual shift mode; and a storage unit storing maps each representing a relationship between a vehicle speed and an accelerator operation amount that are parameters for switching the transmission mode, and that are set for individual gradients of road on which the vehicle drives. The maps each include a cancellation region, a first maintenance region, and a second maintenance region, which are set to be different from each other according to the gradients. The controller includes a processor(s) and a memory(ies) coupled to the processor(s). The processor(s) executes a process including: selecting a map corresponding to a gradient of road on which the vehicle is driving; and switching the transmission mode based on the selected map, the vehicle speed and the accelerator operation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji INOUE, Akihiro KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240031019Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring device and an optical fiber identification method capable of efficiently identifying an optical fiber at a construction site. The monitoring device 71 includes a light receiver 74 that receives an optical signal SL leaked from an optical fiber, a counter 75 that counts the number of unique numbers indicating transmission sources included in the optical signal SL, and a display unit 76 that displays the number of unique numbers. The monitoring device 71 further includes a control unit 77 that causes the display unit 76 to display that a portion where the optical signal SL has leaked is between the 8-branch splitter 51 and the OLT 11 when the number of unique numbers is two or more, and that causes the display unit 76 to display that it is unknown whether a portion where the optical signal SL has leaked is between the 8-branch splitter 51 and the OLT 11 or between the 8-branch splitter 51 and the ONU 21 when the number of unique numbers is one.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenobu HIROTA, Takui UEMATSU, Hiroyuki IIDA, Kazutaka NOTO, Kenji INOUE
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Publication number: 20240012219Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to adjust a balance of tension applied to an optical cable fixed to a utility pole. A disclosed utility pole includes: a through hole (12) that is disposed on an upper side of a utility pole (10) and through which optical cable (21) can pass; and a cap (22) disposed in a gap between the through hole (12) and the optical cable (21), in which the cap (22) is fixed to the through hole (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Yoshiyasu SATO, Tatsuya MOKI, Hidenobu HIROTA, Kenji INOUE
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Publication number: 20230298061Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a game program for a game which is played through a network causes a computer to realize a selection receiving function of receiving, from one user, the selection of whether to transmit a message to another user, an extraction function of extracting at least one other user to which the message is transmitted, on the basis of a certain condition, a message transmitting function of transmitting the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function when the selection receiving function receives the selection indicating that the message is transmitted to the other user, and a reward giving function of giving a reward to the one user when the message transmitting function transmits the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Kenji INOUE
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Patent number: 11699165Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a game program for a game which is played through a network causes a computer to realize a selection receiving function of receiving, from one user, the selection of whether to transmit a message to another user, an extraction function of extracting at least one other user to which the message is transmitted, on the basis of a certain condition, a message transmitting function of transmitting the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function when the selection receiving function receives the selection indicating that the message is transmitted to the other user, and a reward giving function of giving a reward to the one user when the message transmitting function transmits the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventor: Kenji Inoue
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Patent number: 11644097Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a torque converter, a transmission, and a control device. The torque converter is coupled to the engine. The transmission is coupled to the torque converter. The control device is configured to control operation of the transmission. The control device includes a controller configured to perform shift hold control to prevent upshift of the transmission based on a lateral acceleration value of the vehicle. The controller is configured to permit the upshift of the transmission by only one gear shift stage in a case where a predetermined condition is met in the shift hold control. The predetermined condition includes a condition that an index value indicating a rotation speed of an output shaft of the torque converter be higher than a first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Shuntaro Miura, Kenji Inoue, Akihiro Kawakami, Takahiro Okada
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Publication number: 20230026614Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a torque converter, a transmission, and a control device. The torque converter is coupled to the engine. The transmission is coupled to the torque converter. The control device is configured to control operation of the transmission. The control device includes a controller configured to perform shift hold control to prevent upshift of the transmission based on a lateral acceleration value of the vehicle. The controller is configured to permit the upshift of the transmission by only one gear shift stage in a case where a predetermined condition is met in the shift hold control. The predetermined condition includes a condition that an index value indicating a rotation speed of an output shaft of the torque converter be higher than a first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Shuntaro MIURA, Kenji INOUE, Akihiro KAWAKAMI, Takahiro OKADA