Patents by Inventor Koji Sawada

Koji Sawada 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: 20230021721
    Abstract: An image processing device 10 includes an image interface 18, a memory 19, and a controller 20. The image interface 18 acquires a captured image. The positions of specific feature points in a world coordinate system and reference positions of the specific feature points are stored in the memory 19. The controller 20 detects the specific feature points in the captured image. In a case where discrepancy between the position in the captured image and the reference position is found with regard to a predetermined percentage or more of the specific feature points, the controller 20 recalculates a calibration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Koji ARATA, Ryuichi SAWADA, Shigeto HATTORI, Hironobu TANIGAWA
  • Patent number: 11534359
    Abstract: The present invention provides an actuator-equipped knee ankle foot orthosis in which a control device calculates a thigh phase angle based on an angle-related signal detected by a thigh orientation detecting means at one sampling point, applies the thigh phase angle at that sampling point to an assisting force control data, which is stored in the control device in advance and indicates the relationship between the thigh phase angle and a size of the assisting force to be imparted to a lower leg-side brace, to obtain the size of the assisting force to be imparted to the lower leg-side brace at that sampling point, and executes operational control for an actuator unit such that the assisting force having the size is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: Suncall Corporation, National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto University
    Inventors: Rei Takahashi, Yuichi Sawada, Yoshiyuki Higashi, Tadao Tsuboyama, Noriaki Ichihashi, Koji Ohata, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11529281
    Abstract: A gait motion assisting apparatus of the present invention includes an actuator unit controlling driver so that assisting force calculated by applying gait motion timing based on detected thigh phase angle to output pattern saved data is imparted to lower leg, and a terminal device capable of wireless-communicating with control device of the actuator unit. The terminal device can receive assisting force setting value including assisting force imparting period during gait cycle and create, based on the assisting force setting value, output pattern setting data indicating a relationship between the gait motion timing and a size of assisting force to be imparted to the lower leg. The control device is configured to overwrite-save the output pattern setting data received from the terminal device as the output pattern saved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Suncall Corporation, Kyoto University, National University Corporation Kyoto institute of Technology
    Inventors: Rei Takahashi, Yukinobu Makihara, Tadao Tsuboyama, Koji Ohata, Yuichi Sawada, Yoshiyuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 11504292
    Abstract: The gait motion assisting device according to the present invention replicates movement of user's leg including thigh and lower leg around hip joint by pendulum movement of a rod-like rigid body, estimates hip joint angle and hip joint angular velocity of thigh calculated based on equation of motion of the pendulum movement by a state estimator using angle-related signal received from a thigh orientation detecting means as the observation, calculates the thigh phase angle using the estimated hip joint angle and the estimated hip joint angular velocity, and outputs assisting force having torque value calculated based on the thigh phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Suncall Corporation
    Inventors: Rei Takahashi, Yukinobu Makihara, Yuichi Sawada, Yoshiyuki Higashi, Tadao Tsuboyama, Noriaki Ichihashi, Koji Ohata
  • Publication number: 20220339916
    Abstract: A light- and heat-shielding composite sheet includes: a fiber cloth; at least one layer of a synthetic resin film containing carbon black at a rate of 4% to 40% by mass both inclusive; and a synthetic resin adhesive containing titanium dioxide at a rate of 30% to 60% by mass both inclusive and bonding the fiber cloth with the synthetic resin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., KOMATSU MATERE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei NAKAYA, Tatsuo HASEGAWA, Masakatsu NISHIHARA, Koji SAWADA
  • Patent number: 11404900
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a combination of one power supply module of a plurality of power supply modules having different power supply performances and one controller of a plurality of controllers having different functions, which are selectively combined. Each of the plurality of power supply modules includes a power supply module side connection portion common to the plurality of power supply modules, and each of the plurality of controllers includes a controller side connection portion common to the plurality of controllers and connectable to the power supply module side connection portion, to allow the one power supply module and the one controller are selectively combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, KYOHO MACHINE WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Onishi, Koji Nishi, Shinichi Sawada, Toyoki Sugiyama, Takumi Mio, Yukihiro Komatsubara, Satoshi Shinoda, Masafumi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20160289975
    Abstract: A building board with an appearance being three-dimensional and having a texture of processed lumber and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. A building board includes a base material board, a patterned region formed on the base material board and demarcated by a first joint-like groove and a second joint-like groove intersecting the first joint-like groove, a plurality of wood grain forming protrusions that are formed in the patterned region so as to express a wood grain pattern, an intersecting recess that is formed in the patterned region to have a strip shape extending in a direction intersecting the plurality of wood grain forming protrusions, a first coating formed on the wood grain forming protrusions, and a second coating formed on the intersecting recess, the second coating having a lower lightness than the first coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eijiro KOBAYASHI, Koji SAWADA
  • Patent number: 9353530
    Abstract: An outer wall structure of the invention includes an outer wall mounting member composed of a supporting plate and a plurality of securing members. The supporting plate includes a plate body and a positioning portion. With this outer wall structure, the plate body is fixed to a horizontal furring strip member and a frame member in an upside portion and a downside portion of a sash body of a window sash at a second distance away from an outer surface of the sash body. The securing members are fixed to the plate body at a third distance away from the outer surface of the sash body. In this outer wall structure, the position at the second distance is farther away from the outer face than the position at a distance from the outer surface of the sash body to a distal end portion of a flange of the sash body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Sawada
  • Publication number: 20160040433
    Abstract: An outer wall structure of the invention includes an outer wall mounting member composed of a supporting plate and a plurality of securing members. The supporting plate includes a plate body and a positioning portion. With this outer wall structure, the plate body is fixed to a horizontal furring strip member and a frame member in an upside portion and a downside portion of a sash body of a window sash at a second distance away from an outer surface of the sash body. The securing members are fixed to the plate body at a third distance away from the outer surface of the sash body. In this outer wall structure, the position at the second distance is farther away from the outer face than the position at a distance from the outer surface of the sash body to a distal end portion of a flange of the sash body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji SAWADA
  • Patent number: 9199271
    Abstract: The present invention provides a building material in which a coating is applied to a front surface and a side surface is sufficiently adhered to a sealing and method for manufacturing thereof. In a building material in which a coating is applied to a front surface, a coating film on a side surface is removed or reduced by laser irradiation. The part of the side surface in which the coating film has been removed or reduced by laser irradiation has a width of at least 5 mm from a front surface side toward a rear surface side of the building material, or extends over the entire side surface from the front surface side toward the rear surface side of the building material, or is formed more than a part in which coating film is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kawakami, Koji Sawada, Yoshinori Hibino
  • Publication number: 20140302769
    Abstract: A register has a narrow and long air outlet that is long in the longitudinal direction and short in the short-side direction, includes, but is not limited to a front movable louver that changes the wind direction in the short-side direction arranged inside the air outlet, and includes a rear movable louver that changes the wind direction in the longitudinal direction arranged upstream from the front movable louver. A back movable louver is arranged upstream from the rear movable louver in order to change the wind direction in the short-side direction. The back movable louver changes the wind direction by turning in a direction opposite to a direction in which the front movable louver is turned in the short-side direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: HOWA PLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Sawada
  • Patent number: 8602852
    Abstract: An operation load application member includes: a pivot support portion, a leg portion having a first projection and a second projection at its tip; and a connection portion which connects the pivot support portion and the leg portion together. The pivot support portion, the leg portion, and the connection portion are unitarily formed. The operation load application member can generate, by itself, a plurality of operation loads and a plurality of operation feels. Accordingly, there is provided an air blowing device which can reduce manufacturing cost while maintaining satisfactory operation loads and operation feels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Howa Plastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Sawada
  • Patent number: 8418420
    Abstract: A window drain for preventing stains on a building wall and damage caused by (frozen) rain water, which is installable and sealable easily without impairing the appearance of a building. The present invention relates to a window drain adaptable to be positioned beneath a sill of a sash window frame having a vertical portion, a sloping portion, a front portion, and a horizontal portion for latching to an upper portion of an external wall. Further, the present invention relates to a window drain, wherein the horizontal portion has notches at both ends thereof. Further, the present invention relates to a window drain, further having upstanding portions at both ends of the window drain to regulate a stream of water so that the water is kept between the upstanding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Nichiha Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Sawada
  • Patent number: 8404331
    Abstract: The present invention provides a building material in which a coating is applied to a front surface and a side surface is sufficiently adhered to a sealing and method for manufacturing thereof. In a building material in which a coating is applied to a front surface, a coating film on a side surface is removed or reduced by laser irradiation. The part of the side surface in which the coating film has been removed or reduced by laser irradiation has a width of at least 5 mm from a front surface side toward a rear surface side of the building material, or extends over the entire side surface from the front surface side toward the rear surface side of the building material, or is formed more than a part in which coating film is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nichiha Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kawakami, Koji Sawada, Yoshinori Hibino
  • Patent number: 8205405
    Abstract: A wall structure is provided, which, despite having a surface that is covered with elastic coating material and that is jointless, has an uneven pattern in the surface, and which does not require any great effort in the coating process and exhibit little variation in the finished design. The wall structure has a wall material, an elastic joint material, a mesh-shaped material and an elastic coating material. The surface of the wall material bears an uneven pattern in which the height difference between deepest portions and highest portions is 2.0 to 4.0 mm and a pattern loss ratio is 15% or less, and furthermore, the wall material is fixed in a state where a side end portion of the wall material is abutted against a side end portion of another wall material. The elastic joint material covers the surface of the abutting portion of the side end portions of the wall materials, and the elastic coating material covers the entire surfaces of the wall materials and of the elastic joint material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Nichiha Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Sawada, Yoshinori Hibino
  • Patent number: 8099920
    Abstract: An external wall constructing structure excellent in ornamental appearance, weather resistance, contractibility, and safety is provided. An external wall constructing structure 1 comprising external wall panels that are joined to each other by vertical and horizontal shiplap joints and secured to a skeleton of a building by securing a metal fitting 5. A cut-off end portion 23 of a dimension-adjusted external wall panel 20 among the plurality of external wall panels is fixed to a skeleton 10 of the building via end constructing bracket 3. Left and right joint end portions of the dimension-adjusted external wall panel 20 are fixed to the skeleton 10 via lateral end securing metal fittings 6. In the end constructing bracket 3, a rear plate portion 31 is abutted on rear surface 26 of the dimension-adjusted external wall panel 20 and forward-bending portion 32 is abutted on cut-off end surface 231 of the dimension-adjusted external wall panel 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nichiha Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneaki Ito, Koji Sawada, Shin Takami
  • Publication number: 20110319005
    Abstract: Peripheral ribs 34A, 34B of a damper plate 30 are raised from at least two sides along an extending direction of a rotation shaft 31 among four sides forming the peripheral portion of the damper plate 30 and have belt-like outer surfaces. When the damper plate 30 is positioned at a position to close a ventilation path 40, the outer surface of the upper peripheral rib 34A becomes parallel with an upper wall surface 13A of the retainer with a narrow clearance therebetween and the outer surface of the lower peripheral rib 34B becomes parallel with a lower wall surface 13B of the retainer with a narrow clearance therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Koji Sawada, Masaaki Yamamoto, Yoshimitsu Hibino
  • Publication number: 20110217915
    Abstract: An operation load application member 40 includes: a pivot support portion 41, a leg portion 43 having a first projection 44 and a second projection 45 at its tip; and a connection portion 42 which connects the pivot support portion 41 and the leg portion 43 together. The pivot support portion 41, the leg portion 43, and the connection portion 42 are unitarily formed. The operation load application member 40 can generate, by itself, a plurality of operation loads and a plurality of operation feels. Accordingly, there is provided an air blowing device which can reduce manufacturing cost while maintaining satisfactory operation loads and operation feels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: HOWA PLASTICS CO., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Sawada
  • Publication number: 20110162284
    Abstract: A window drain for preventing stains on a building wall and damage caused by (frozen) rain water, which is installable and sealable easily without impairing the appearance of a building. The present invention relates to a window drain adaptable to be positioned beneath a sill of a sash window frame having a vertical portion, a sloping portion, a front portion, and a horizontal portion for latching to an upper portion of an external wall. Further, the present invention relates to a window drain, wherein the horizontal portion has notches at both ends thereof. Further, the present invention relates to a window drain, further having upstanding portions at both ends of the window drain to regulate a stream of water so that the water is kept between the upstanding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Koji SAWADA
  • Patent number: 7941980
    Abstract: A window drain for preventing stains on a building wall and damage caused by (frozen) rain water, which is installable and sealable easily without impairing the appearance of a building. The present invention relates to a window drain adaptable to be positioned beneath a sill of a sash window frame having a vertical portion, a sloping portion, a front portion, and a horizontal portion for latching to an upper portion of an external wall. Further, the present invention relates to a window drain, wherein the horizontal portion has notches at both ends thereof. Further, the present invention relates to a window drain, further having upstanding portions at both ends of the window drain to regulate a stream of water so that the water is kept between the upstanding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Nichiha Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Sawada