Patents by Inventor Kenji Kadota
Kenji Kadota 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: 10147261Abstract: A bundle conveyance unit conveys a medium bundle created by a storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path. Either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit includes a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion of the bundle conveyance path, and that transitions between a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a reject storage box, and a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a stacking section.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryousuke Kojima, Ikuo Suto, Kenji Kadota, Akira Gotou
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Patent number: 9890014Abstract: A medium conveyance device includes a placement body having a bundle conveyance face on which a medium bundle is conveyed. A Scott-Russell body includes an abutting portion that abuts the medium bundle. A movement section causes the Scott-Russell body to abut against the medium bundle and moves the Scott-Russell body along the bundle conveyance face in first or second directions, so as to move the medium bundle along the bundle conveyance face in the direction. The conveyance state switching section switches to a first state in which the Scott-Russell body is caused to abut against a second direction side of the medium bundle and conveyance of the medium bundle toward the first direction is enabled, or to a second state in which the Scott-Russell body is caused to abut against a first direction side of the medium bundle and conveyance of the medium bundle toward the second direction is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuji Kobayashi, Akira Gotou, Kenji Kadota
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Publication number: 20180005479Abstract: A bundle conveyance unit conveys a medium bundle created by a storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path. Either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit includes a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion of the bundle conveyance path, and that transitions between a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a reject storage box, and a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a stacking section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryousuke KOJIMA, Ikuo SUTO, Kenji KADOTA, Akira GOTOU
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Publication number: 20170341902Abstract: A medium conveyance device is provided including a placement body, a Scott-Russell body, a moving section, and a conveyance state switching section. The placement body includes a bundle conveyance face on which a medium bundle configured by stacking plural medium into a bundle shape is conveyed in a state placed on the bundle conveyance face. The Scott-Russell body includes an abutting portion that abuts the medium bundle. The movement section causes at least a portion of the Scott-Russell body to abut against the medium bundle and moves the Scott-Russell body along the bundle conveyance face in a first direction, or in a second direction opposite to the first direction, so as to move the medium bundle along the bundle conveyance face in the first direction or in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuji KOBAYASHI, Akira GOTOU, Kenji KADOTA
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Publication number: 20170341896Abstract: A banknote pay-out device includes a pay-out port where a banknote bundle is handed over to a user, a shutter that is provided so as to capable of closing or opening the pay-out port, a gripping conveyance guide and a stage that guide the banknote bundle W, and a push-out plate that is disposed facing the gripping conveyance guide and the stage, and that moves in a handover direction toward the pay-out port while contacting one edge side of the banknote bundle to convey the banknote bundle toward the pay-out port. The banknote pay-out device also includes a shutter opening-and-closing projection that, as the push-out plate moves toward the pay-out port, moves together with the push-out plate and moves the shutter toward an opening direction to open the pay-out port.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira GOTOU, Kenji KADOTA
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Patent number: 9731926Abstract: A paper sheet handling device that facilitates removal of paper sheets blocked on a conveying path. The device includes a safe casing internally provided with a paper sheet storage box; a processing unit capable of being pulled out from, or stowed in, a main device; a conveying section coupled to the processing unit, and that forms a conveying path; a handover section coupled to a top plate of the safe casing to hand over the sheets between the storage box and the conveying path; and a positioning section that positions for connecting the handover section and the conveying path together when the processing unit is being stowed in the main device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Kadota
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Patent number: 9481539Abstract: A paper sheet handling device that facilitates removal of paper sheets blocked on a conveying path. The device includes a safe casing internally provided with a paper sheet storage box; a processing unit capable of being pulled out from, or stowed in, a main device; a conveying section coupled to the processing unit, and that forms a conveying path; a handover section coupled to a top plate of the safe casing to hand over the sheets between the storage box and the conveying path; and a positioning section that positions for connecting the handover section and the conveying path together when the processing unit is being stowed in the main device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Kadota
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Publication number: 20150307306Abstract: A paper sheet handling device that facilitates removal of paper sheets blocked on a conveying path. The device includes a safe casing internally provided with a paper sheet storage box; a processing unit capable of being pulled out from, or stowed in, a main device; a conveying section coupled to the processing unit, and that forms a conveying path; a handover section coupled to a top plate of the safe casing to hand over the sheets between the storage box and the conveying path; and a positioning section that positions for connecting the handover section and the conveying path together when the processing unit is being stowed in the main device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji KADOTA
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Patent number: 8181520Abstract: A training device measures, after its robot arm is mounted on a trainee, a change in angle of the joint axles of a limb of the trainee with angular sensors. Based on the angular change measured, a controller calculates an angular rate in the direction in which a load is applied, stores as the maximum muscular force a load at the time when the angular rate has exceeded a predetermined value, and stops applying the loads.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Kadota, Mamoru Tokita, Nobuharu Nishino
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Patent number: 8181519Abstract: In an apparatus for resistance-based muscular force evaluation and training, elasticity at the distal end of a robot arm is made to follow changes caused in the force exerted by the muscles of praxis as a result of changes in angle at the first and second joints. Even when the trainee changes his or her position, he or she may be indicated of and may positively comprehend the direction in which he or she is to exert the force. The robot arm have its distal end secured to the distal end of the link mechanism has elasticity variable with directions. The elasticity is varied to follow changes caused in the force exerted on the distal end of the link mechanism by a set of antagonistic mono-articular muscles and a set of antagonistic bi-articular muscles, as a result of changes in angle at the first and second joints.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Kadota
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Patent number: 8002670Abstract: A resistance training device effectively training the muscular force of a desired muscle includes a saddle for a user to sit on, a robot arm adjustable to the length of a limb of the user, a fastener for securing the robot arm to the limb, a controller for controlling the torque of a driving source driving a joint of the robot arm, and an input operating unit for the user to input a driving condition. When the user inputs a training load and an output direction of the distal end of the limb to be trained, the value of a torque necessary for generating the training load is calculated. The robot arm generates the torque of the calculated magnitude acting in a direction opposite to the output direction in such a manner that a constant training load is exerted to the user without dependency on the position of the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Kadota
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Patent number: 7748271Abstract: The torques at the first and second joints of a test subject are measured, which may be generated simultaneously by the coordinate action of the antagonistic mono- and bi-articular muscles. A hexagonal diagram of the output distribution is formulated on a plane formed by two axes corresponding to torques at the first and second joints as. Based on the diagram, the muscular force of the subject, changing through training, may accurately be evaluated, without the necessity of specifying the force of individual function-based muscles of praxis, even if the subject changes his or her position or joint angle. The torques at the first and second joints are measured, which are generated simultaneously by the coordinate action of the antagonistic mono- and bi-articular muscles. The muscular force of the bi-articular link mechanism of the subject is thus measured by the diagram.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Kadota
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Publication number: 20100050765Abstract: A training device measures, after its robot arm is mounted on a trainee, a change in angle of the joint axles of a limb of the trainee with angular sensors. Based on the angular change measured, a controller calculates an angular rate in the direction in which a load is applied, stores as the maximum muscular force a load at the time when the angular rate has exceeded a predetermined value, and stops applying the loads.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji KADOTA, Mamoru Tokita, Nobuharu Nishino
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Publication number: 20080202232Abstract: The torques at the first and second joints of a test subject are measured, which may be generated simultaneously by the coordinate action of the antagonistic mono- and bi-articular muscles. A hexagonal diagram of the output distribution is formulated on a plane formed by two axes corresponding to torques at the first and second joints as. Based on the diagram, the muscular force of the subject, changing through training, may accurately be evaluated, without the necessity of specifying the force of individual function-based muscles of praxis, even if the subject changes his or her position or joint angle. The torques at the first and second joints are measured, which are generated simultaneously by the coordinate action of the antagonistic mono- and bi-articular muscles. The muscular force of the bi-articular link mechanism of the subject is thus measured by the diagram.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji KADOTA
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Publication number: 20080207409Abstract: In an apparatus for resistance-based muscular force evaluation and training, elasticity at the distal end of a robot arm is made to follow changes caused in the force exerted by the muscles of praxis as a result of changes in angle at the first and second joints. Even when the trainee changes his or her position, he or she may be indicated of and may positively comprehend the direction in which he or she is to exert the force. The robot arm have its distal end secured to the distal end of the link mechanism has elasticity variable with directions. The elasticity is varied to follow changes caused in the force exerted on the distal end of the link mechanism by a set of antagonistic mono-articular muscles and a set of antagonistic bi-articular muscles, as a result of changes in angle at the first and second joints.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji KADOTA
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Publication number: 20080026923Abstract: A resistance training device effectively training the muscular force of a desired muscle includes a saddle for a user to sit on, a robot arm adjustable to the length of a limb of the user, a fastener for securing the robot arm to the limb, a controller for controlling the torque of a driving source driving a joint of the robot arm, and an input operating unit for the user to input a driving condition. When the user inputs a training load and an output direction of the distal end of the limb to be trained, the value of a torque necessary for generating the training load is calculated. The robot arm generates the torque of the calculated magnitude acting in a direction opposite to the output direction in such a manner that a constant training load is exerted to the user without dependency on the position of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Kadota
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Patent number: 6694194Abstract: A remote work supporting system includes a photographing device for photographing a work target machine that is to be worked on by a first operator, a first display for displaying an image of the target machine to the first operator, a second display for displaying the same image to a second operator, an operation device to be operated by the second operator, and an instruction displaying device for displaying contents of instructions in the first display based on operations made on the operation device. Since the instruction contents are displayed in the first display according to the operations made on the operation device by the second operator, the first and second operators can share considerable amount of information.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2001Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Oda, Kenji Kadota, Yuji Ohta, Kenya Suzuki
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Patent number: 6614480Abstract: The present invention is an automatic focusing apparatus for automatically focusing on a subject in an image plane. The automatic focusing apparatus includes a focus lens for focusing on the subject, drive means for moving the focus lens, an image element for picking up image data from the subject through the focus lens, an image processor for extracting luminance signals of each pixel from the image data picked up by the image element, and a controller for computing contrast value under the luminance signals of each pixel extracted by the image processor, for computing moving quantity of the focus lens by using inverse number of the contrast value, and for controlling the drive means according to the moving quantity.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1998Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Oda, Kenji Kadota
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Publication number: 20020049510Abstract: A remote work supporting system includes a photographing device for photographing a work target machine that is to be worked on by a first operator, a first display for displaying an image of the target machine to the first operator, a second display for displaying the same image to a second operator, an operation device to be operated by the second operator, and an instruction displaying device for displaying contents of instructions in the first display based on operations made on the operation device. Since the instruction contents are displayed in the first display according to the operations made on the operation device by the second operator, the first and second operators can share considerable amount of information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventors: Takahiro Oda, Kenji Kadota, Yuji Ohta, Kenya Suzuki
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Patent number: 4266967Abstract: A process for reducing pellets containing metal oxides, such as chrome oxide, iron oxide, zinc oxide, etc. with the contained carbon to metallized pellets in a rotary kiln, characterized by carrying out the reduction while blowing air or spraying water into the portion near the charge end of the kiln in order to prevent too rapid heating of the raw pellets is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1979Date of Patent: May 12, 1981Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuteru Yamada, Kenji Kadota