Patents by Inventor Koichi Takahashi
Koichi Takahashi 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: 9961038Abstract: A computer-implemented method of posting content to a social medium comprises receiving content posted by a user along with an associated posting time which indicates when the user selected an option to post the content to the social medium; determining that publication of the content posted by the user is dependent on a trigger; and in response to determining that publication of the content is dependent on the trigger, storing the content with the associated posting time and suspending publication of the content until the trigger is satisfied such that the posting time published with the content indicates a time prior to transmission of the content from an electronic device to a server for publishing.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yuka Nomura, Koichi Takahashi, Takashi Takahashi, Daisuke Tomoda, Hiroki Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 9950588Abstract: A vehicle includes a high voltage equipment-accommodation portion, a cooling mechanism, and a discharge passage. The high voltage equipment-accommodation portion is provided behind a seat and includes a high voltage equipment. The cooling mechanism cools the high voltage equipment with cooling air introduced from an outside of the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and diffuses in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion the cooling air which has cooled the high voltage equipment. The discharge passage connects a lower end part of the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and a vicinity of a floor surface in the vehicle interior. The cooling mechanism is configured to discharge the cooling air in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion downwardly to the vehicle interior via the discharge passage.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Koichi Takahashi, Kazuya Nakano
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Patent number: 9950601Abstract: A vehicle includes an upper member, a lower member, and a high voltage equipment. The upper member is provided at a rear of a seat in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The upper member extends in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The lower member extends in the vehicle width direction. The lower member is provided at the rear of the seat in the front-rear direction below the upper member in a vehicle height direction of the vehicle. The high voltage equipment is provided at the rear of the seat in the front-rear direction and connected to an upper connecting point of the upper member and a lower connecting point of the lower member. A virtual line connecting the upper connecting point and the lower connecting point passes through a center of gravity of the high voltage equipment viewed in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Koichi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180067290Abstract: A prism optical system has an optical element that includes an entrance-side reflecting surface having reflection on the most entrance-side of the optical element on an optical path, an exit-side reflecting surface having reflection on the most exit side of the optical element on the optical path, and an intermediate reflecting surface having reflection between the entrance-side reflecting surface and the exit-side reflecting surface on the optical path, a thickness of an intermediate area including the intermediate reflecting surface in the X-Z plane is greater than a thickness of an entrance-side area including the entrance-side reflecting surface or a thickness of an exit-side area including the exit-side reflecting surface, and the following condition (1) is satisfied: 0.5<Tn/Tc<1.0??(1) where Tn is a thickness of the entrance-side area including the entrance-side reflecting surface, and Tc is a thickness of the intermediate area including the intermediate reflecting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Koichi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180067289Abstract: A prism optical system has an optical element that includes, a first surface that defines a transmitting surface as an entrance surface and an internal reflecting surface as well, a second surface that defines an internal reflecting surface in opposition to the first surface, a third surface that defines an internal reflecting surface in opposition to the first surface and adjacent to the second surface, a fourth surface that defines an internal reflecting surface in opposition to the first surface and adjacent to the third surface and an internal reflecting surface closest to the image plane as well, and a fifth surface that defines a transmitting surface adjacent to the first surface and in opposition to the fourth surface; the fourth surface is defined by a rotationally asymmetric surface having a negative power in the Y-Z plane and a positive power in the X-direction perpendicular to the Y-Z plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Koichi TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9884535Abstract: A vehicle includes an air conditioning system, a high voltage equipment, a cooling fan, and an intake duct. The air conditioning system is to condition air in an interior of the vehicle which has a vehicle height direction. The cooling fan is to send cooling air which has passed through the air conditioning system to the high voltage equipment. The cooling fan has an intake port. The intake duct is connected to the intake port from upward in the vehicle height direction to supply the cooling air to the cooling fan. A lowermost part of the intake port in the vehicle height direction is positioned higher than a lowermost surface of a duct flow path of the intake duct in the vehicle height direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Nakano, Koichi Takahashi, Sachiko Katsuno
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Publication number: 20180029650Abstract: Provided is a rear end structure of a vehicle body, with which it is possible to reduce vehicle weight and achieve satisfactory vehicle body rigidity. The rear end structure of a vehicle body is equipped with a floor panel having a low floor part, a high floor part provided rearward of the low floor part, and a floor recess formed in the high floor part and describing a protuberant configuration when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and a brace connecting the low floor part and the bottom surface of the floor recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi TAKAHASHI, Satoru KAWABE, Ken YASUI, Masaaki YAMANE
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Patent number: 9804373Abstract: The first optical element 10 and the second optical element 20 are spaced away from each other in an effective area through which a light beam passes, and satisfy the following condition (1): 0<DMAX/f?0.3??(1) where DMAX is the maximum value of a distance as measured in the effective area through which the light beam passes on a section including a center chief ray of the light beam in a direction parallel with the center chief ray between the second surface 12 of the first optical element 10 and the first surface 21 of the second optical element 20, and f is the focal length of the decentered optical system 1.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Koichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 9736102Abstract: A system, device, computer program product, and/or method generates display data that allows a user to ascertain a relationship between related electronic information from among sent and received electronic information. A three-dimensional time series data processing system selects one electronic information, extracts electronic information relating to the selected electronic information from the electronic information database, calculates relevance between the sender of the selected electronic information and the sender of the extracted electronic information, and generates three-dimensional time series data for three-dimensionally rendering a relationship between the selected electronic information and the extracted electronic information as positional information of the respective extracted electronic information in a virtual three-dimensional space, where the sender, the send time and the relevance are axes.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kumi Adachi, Eisuke Kanzaki, Koichi Takahashi, Takashi Takahashi, Hideo Takeda
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Publication number: 20170205585Abstract: An optical system for optical communications includes: a signal light exit portion, a first coupler optical system that collects the signal light, a first collimator optical system that collimates the signal light into a parallel light, an optical signal-operating portion that reflects the parallel light, a second collimator optical system that collects the parallel light reflected, a second coupler optical system that collects signal light, and a signal light-receiving portion that receives the signal light incident, wherein: the first collimator optical system is defined by a decentered optical system that includes a reflective surface that tilts with respect to an optical axis of incident signal light and is capable of reflection, and the second collimator optical system is defined by a second decentered optical system that includes a reflective surface that tilts with respect to an optical axis of incident signal light and is capable of internal reflection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Koichi TAKAHASHI
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DECENTERED OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROJECTOR APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE DECENTERED OPTICAL SYSTEM
Publication number: 20170153455Abstract: The decentered optical system 1 includes: a first optical element 10 having at least three mutually decentered optical surfaces, and filled inside with a medium having a refractive index of greater than 1, at least one of the three optical surfaces being configured into a rotationally asymmetric shape, a second optical element 20 having at least two mutually decentered optical surfaces, and filled inside with a medium having a refractive index of greater than 1, and a third optical element 30 having at least two mutually decentered optical surfaces, and filled inside with a medium having a refractive index of greater than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Koichi TAKAHASHI -
Publication number: 20170111307Abstract: A computer-implemented method of posting content to a social medium comprises receiving content posted by a user along with an associated posting time which indicates when the user selected an option to post the content to the social medium; determining that publication of the content posted by the user is dependent on a trigger; and in response to determining that publication of the content is dependent on the trigger, storing the content with the associated posting time and suspending publication of the content until the trigger is satisfied such that the posting time published with the content indicates a time prior to transmission of the content from an electronic device to a server for publishing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Yuka Nomura, Koichi Takahashi, Takashi Takahashi, Daisuke Tomoda, Hiroki Yoshinaga
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Publication number: 20170107600Abstract: The present invention provides: a compressor impeller that cast from an aluminum alloy, has superior production characteristics, and exhibits stable high-temperature strength when used at temperatures around 200° C.; and a method for producing same. The compressor impeller that is cast from an Al alloy is provided with a boss section, a plurality of vane sections and a disc section; the boss section, the plurality of vane sections and the disc section excluding the end section comprise an Al alloy comprising a predetermined metal composition; and at the end section of the disc section, there are at least 10,000/mm2 of intermetallic compounds having a circle-equivalent diameter of 1-6 ?m, and there are no greater than 500/mm2 of intermetallic compounds having a circle-equivalent diameter exceeding 6 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicants: UACJ Corporation, UACJ Foundry & Forging CorporationInventors: Takashi KUBO, Koichi TAKAHASHI, Toshio USHIYAMA, Nobuhito ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20170106718Abstract: A vehicle includes an air conditioning system, a high voltage equipment, a cooling fan, and an intake duct. The air conditioning system is to condition air in an interior of the vehicle which has a vehicle height direction. The cooling fan is to send cooling air which has passed through the air conditioning system to the high voltage equipment. The cooling fan has an intake port. The intake duct is connected to the intake port from upward in the vehicle height direction to supply the cooling air to the cooling fan. A lowermost part of the intake port in the vehicle height direction is positioned higher than a lowermost surface of a duct flow path of the intake duct in the vehicle height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya NAKANO, Koichi TAKAHASHI, Sachiko KATSUNO
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Publication number: 20170106910Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a seat, an upper member, a lower member, and a high voltage equipment. The engine is provided at a rear in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The seat is provided in front of the engine in the front-rear direction. The upper member is provided between the seat and the engine in the front-rear direction and extends in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The lower member extends in the vehicle width direction and is provided between the seat and the engine below the upper member in a vehicle height direction of the vehicle perpendicular to the front-rear direction and the vehicle width direction. The high voltage equipment is provided between the seat and the engine and in a space surrounded by the upper member and the lower member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu MITANI, Koichi TAKAHASHI, Kazuya NAKANO, Sachiko KATSUNO
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Publication number: 20170106735Abstract: A vehicle includes an upper member, a lower member, and a high voltage equipment. The upper member is provided at a rear of a seat in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The upper member extends in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The lower member extends in the vehicle width direction. The lower member is provided at the rear of the seat in the front-rear direction below the upper member in a vehicle height direction of the vehicle. The high voltage equipment is provided at the rear of the seat in the front-rear direction and connected to an upper connecting point of the upper member and a lower connecting point of the lower member. A virtual line connecting the upper connecting point and the lower connecting point passes through a center of gravity of the high voltage equipment viewed in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu MITANI, Koichi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20170106734Abstract: A vehicle includes a right pillar, a left pillar, a high voltage equipment-accommodation portion, a high voltage equipment, and a high voltage equipment-protection cover. The right pillar is provided at a right end part. The left pillar is provided at a left end part. The high voltage equipment-accommodation portion is provided between the pillars. The high voltage equipment is provided in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and has a front face. The high voltage equipment-protection cover covers the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion to cover the front face. The high voltage equipment-protection cover includes a right extension portion and a left extension portion. Each of the extension portions has a groove portion or a bent portion. Each of the extension portions is bent toward front at the groove portion or the bent portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu MITANI, Koichi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20170106717Abstract: A vehicle includes a high voltage equipment-accommodation portion, a cooling mechanism, and a discharge passage. The high voltage equipment-accommodation portion is provided behind a seat and includes a high voltage equipment. The cooling mechanism cools the high voltage equipment with cooling air introduced from an outside of the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and diffuses in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion the cooling air which has cooled the high voltage equipment. The discharge passage connects a lower end part of the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and a vicinity of a floor surface in the vehicle interior. The cooling mechanism is configured to discharge the cooling air in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion downwardly to the vehicle interior via the discharge passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu MITANI, Koichi TAKAHASHI, Kazuya NAKANO
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Publication number: 20170110774Abstract: A lower battery module includes lower batteries and lower cooling air passages. An upper battery module is provided at an downstream of the lower battery module in a flow direction of the cooling air. The upper battery module includes upper batteries and upper cooling air passages. An intermediate duct is provided between the upper battery module and the lower battery module to prevent leakage of the cooling air. The intermediate duct includes a cutwater portion. The cutwater portion is provided along an inner circumference of the intermediate duct to cut a continuous flow of water from an inside of the upper battery module to an inside of the lower battery module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya NAKANO, Manabu MITANI, Sachiko KATSUNO, Koichi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160334784Abstract: In a plant monitor and control system which includes a large display which displays plant monitor and control information items, and a navigation display terminal by which a touch input operation can be performed, an overall display screen of the large display is displayed on the navigation display terminal, and the display screen of the large display is expanded and displayed on the navigation display terminal in a state where the display screen of the large display, which is displayed on the navigation display terminal, is a base point, and minute information items of devices, which are displayed in a display screen of the navigation display terminal, are displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koichi TAKAHASHI, Kanako HOMIZU