Patents by Inventor Kouji Okamoto
Kouji Okamoto 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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Publication number: 20240101199Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a cab disposed on an upper side of the vehicle body frame, brackets connected to the cab, limiting sections and buffering devices. The limiting sections are disposed between the brackets and the vehicle body frame. The limiting sections limit a movement range of the cab with respect to the vehicle body frame. The buffering devices are disposed between the brackets and the vehicle body frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Souichirou MURAKAMI, Hirofumi KOTAKI, Daisuke OKAMOTO, Kouji NAGAMI, Yohei TAKAHASHI, Osamu YATSUDA, Hironori YAMAMITSU
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Patent number: 9531332Abstract: Disclosed is a distortion-compensation apparatus that can reduce the storage space for storing coefficients required for distortion-compensation calculation, and can accurately execute distortion compensation. Distortion-compensation apparatus (100) compensates for distortion of an output signal from a predetermined circuit by predistortion in which an input signal is preliminarily multiplied by a coefficient. First multiplication section (200c) of distortion-compensation apparatus (100) multiplies an input signal by a first coefficient selected from coefficient candidates in accordance with the input signal; second multiplication section (201c1 to 201cm) multiplies a delay signal of an input signal by a tap coefficient; and adding section (202) outputs a signal obtained by adding together an input signal multiplied by the compensation coefficient and the delay signal multiplied by the tap coefficient to the predetermined circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshito Hirai, Kouji Okamoto
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Patent number: 9438281Abstract: Disclosed is a distortion compensation apparatus that, by appropriately generating a distortion-compensation coefficient, makes it possible to obtain a desired transmission output, and substantially reduce the amount of power leakage to an adjacent channel. Reception section (103) of the distortion compensation apparatus acquires and demodulates a transmission signal to generate a demodulation signal. Delay adjustment section (104) computes the delay amount of the demodulation signal with respect to the baseband signal, eliminates the delay of the demodulation signal with respect to the baseband signal based on the delay amount, and outputs the baseband signal and the demodulation signal in which the delay is eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshito Hirai, Kouji Okamoto
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Patent number: 9401778Abstract: A storage unit stores a first lookup table including a plurality of correction coefficients for I codes, and stores a second lookup table including a plurality of correction coefficients for Q codes. Each of the correction coefficients for I codes and each of the correction coefficients for Q codes are complex numbers. A distortion compensation unit compensates, with one of the plurality of correction coefficients for I codes, distortion of an I code of a transmission signal to generate a first input signal, outputs the first input signal to an SCPA for I codes. The distortion compensation unit compensates, with one of the plurality of correction coefficients for Q codes, distortion of a Q code of the transmission signal to generate a second input signal, and outputs the second input signal to an SCPA for Q codes.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshito Hirai, Kouji Okamoto
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Publication number: 20160071751Abstract: A sheet sticking apparatus includes: a feeder configured to feed an adhesive sheet; a press unit configured to press and stick the adhesive sheet to an adherend provided with a reference portion at a predetermined position; and a mark-providing unit configured to provide a predetermined position recognition mark to the adhesive sheet at a predetermined position within an area stuck to the adherend, the position recognition mark having a predetermined positional pattern relative to the reference portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Kouji OKAMOTO, Kenichi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20150349814Abstract: Disclosed is a distortion compensation apparatus that, by appropriately generating a distortion-compensation coefficient, makes it possible to obtain a desired transmission output, and substantially reduce the amount of power leakage to an adjacent channel. Reception section (103) of the distortion compensation apparatus acquires and demodulates a transmission signal to generate a demodulation signal. Delay adjustment section (104) computes the delay amount of the demodulation signal with respect to the baseband signal, eliminates the delay of the demodulation signal with respect to the baseband signal based on the delay amount, and outputs the baseband signal and the demodulation signal in which the delay is eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Yoshito HIRAI, Kouji OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20150349725Abstract: Disclosed is a distortion-compensation apparatus that can reduce the storage space for storing coefficients required for distortion-compensation calculation, and can accurately execute distortion compensation. Distortion-compensation apparatus (100) compensates for distortion of an output signal from a predetermined circuit by predistortion in which an input signal is preliminarily multiplied by a coefficient. First multiplication section (200c) of distortion-compensation apparatus (100) multiplies an input signal by a first coefficient selected from coefficient candidates in accordance with the input signal; second multiplication section (201c1 to 201cm) multiplies a delay signal of an input signal by a tap coefficient; and adding section (202) outputs a signal obtained by adding together an input signal multiplied by the compensation coefficient and the delay signal multiplied by the tap coefficient to the predetermined circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Yoshito HIRAI, Kouji OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9090869Abstract: A temperature responsive sheet is disclosed that comprises a chemically modified water-soluble elastin obtained by N-acylating at least some of the primary amines and secondary amines contained in a high molecular weight water-soluble elastin molecule and coupling some or all of carboxyl groups contained in the molecule with a glycine alkyl ester. Also is disclosed a process for producing a cell sheet that comprises preparing above the temperature responsive sheet a film that functions as a scaffold for animal cells, culturing specific cells on the film so as to prepare a cell sheet, and subsequently separating the cell sheet and the temperature responsive sheet comprising the chemically modified water-soluble elastin under conditions of no greater than the culturing temperature for the cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kouji Okamoto, Erika Yoshino
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Publication number: 20150180610Abstract: A storage unit stores a first lookup table including a plurality of correction coefficients for I codes, and stores a second lookup table including a plurality of correction coefficients for Q codes. Each of the correction coefficients for I codes and each of the correction coefficients for Q codes are complex numbers. A distortion compensation unit compensates, with one of the plurality of correction coefficients for I codes, distortion of an I code of a transmission signal to generate a first input signal, outputs the first input signal to an SCPA for I codes. The distortion compensation unit compensates, with one of the plurality of correction coefficients for Q codes, distortion of a Q code of the transmission signal to generate a second input signal, and outputs the second input signal to an SCPA for Q codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: YOSHITO HIRAI, KOUJI OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 8980835Abstract: A chemically modified water-soluble elastin that is obtained by subjecting to N-acylating some or all of the primary amines and secondary amines contained in the molecule of a high molecular weight water-soluble elastin and coupling some or all of the carboxyl groups contained in the molecule with the amino group of an amino acid alkyl ester. A chemically modified water-soluble elastin/collagen mixed gel obtained by mixing a collagen with a chemically modified water-soluble elastin that is obtained by subjecting to N-acylating some or all of the primary amines and secondary amines contained in the molecule of a high molecular weight water-soluble elastin and coupling some or all of the carboxyl groups contained in the molecule with the amino group of an amino acid alkyl ester.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Kyushu Institute of TechnologyInventors: Kouji Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Yosuke Maegawa, Ryota Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Adachi
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Patent number: 8912740Abstract: A actuator driver includes a digital filter configured to perform phase compensation of a digital torque command signal using a fed-back digital signal; a digital PWM generator configured to generate a plurality of pulse-width modulated PWM control signals in response to an output of the digital filter; at least one H bridge configured to select and output a first or second terminal voltage in response to the plurality of PWM control signals; first and second continuous time ?? A/D converters configured to convert the first and second terminal voltages from analog to digital, respectively; and a feed-back filter configured to decimate outputs of the first and second continuous time ?? A/D converters to feed back the digital signal to the digital filter.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Akira Kawabe, Kouji Okamoto, Fumiaki Senoue, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Kiyotaka Tanimoto, Hideki Nishino, Shiro Sakiyama, Takashi Morie, Akio Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8780974Abstract: In a digital PLL circuit outputting a clock signal with a frequency obtained by multiplying a frequency of a reference signal by a frequency command word (a frequency ratio), an RPA serially adds a frequency command word containing a fractional component. An output of the RPA is input to a minute phase error generator. The phase error generator generates a plurality of threshold values close to an actual amplitude value of the reference signal based on the fractional portion of the serially added value of the frequency command word, calculates the amplitude value of the reference signal and a phase error of the reference signal corresponding to the amplitude value based on the threshold values, and calculates a minute phase error between the reference signal and the output clock.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Fumiaki Senoue, Kouji Okamoto
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Patent number: 8648632Abstract: In a digital PLL circuit, a phase comparison circuit counts the numbers of transitions of a reference clock and an oscillation clock, sets a time taken until the number of transitions of the reference clock reaches a reference count value as a phase comparison time period, and detects, as a phase error value, a difference between a target count value, obtained based on a magnification value of a desired oscillating frequency with respect to the frequency of the reference clock and the reference count value, and the number of transitions of the oscillation clock in the phase comparison time period. A smoothing circuit smoothes the phase error value. A digitally-controlled oscillation circuit controls the frequency of the oscillation clock in accordance with the phase error value smoothed by the smoothing circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroki Mouri, Kouji Okamoto, Fumiaki Senoue
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Patent number: 8602405Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus has a process tray onto which a sheet is stacked, an aligning member that conveys the sheet toward a sheet edge regulating member in a contact state in which the aligning member, the sheet edge regulating member regulating the edge of the sheet, and a switching member that switches a state of the aligning member between the contact state where the aligning member is in contact with the sheet, and a non-contact state where the aligning member is spaced apart from the process tray. While the sheet on the process tray is being conveyed toward the sheet edge regulating member by the aligning member, the switching member switches the aligning member from the contact state to the non-contact state, and further switches the aligning member from the non-contact state to the contact state.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.Inventors: Kouji Okamoto, Yoshihiko Kitahara
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Publication number: 20130285579Abstract: A actuator driver includes a digital filter configured to perform phase compensation of a digital torque command signal using a fed-back digital signal; a digital PWM generator configured to generate a plurality of pulse-width modulated PWM control signals in response to an output of the digital filter; at least one H bridge configured to select and output a first or second terminal voltage in response to the plurality of PWM control signals; first and second continuous time ?? A/D converters configured to convert the first and second terminal voltages from analog to digital, respectively; and a feed-back filter configured to decimate outputs of the first and second continuous time ?? A/D converters to feed back the digital signal to the digital filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: AKIRA KAWABE, KOUJI OKAMOTO, FUMIAKI SENOUE, HITOSHI KOBAYASHI, KIYOTAKA TANIMOTO, HIDEKI NISHINO, SHIRO SAKIYAMA, TAKASHI MORIE, AKIO YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 8564362Abstract: A filter circuit includes two parallel digital filters, a DAC, and an LPF. The DAC includes two parallel decoders, a parallel-to-serial converter, a switch driver, and a switch. A PLL circuit supplies a reference clock to the DAC. A frequency divider provided in the DAC divides the frequency of the reference clock by two, and supplies the half frequency clock to a parallel processing section (the two decoders and the parallel-to-serial converter) of the DAC and the two digital filters. This makes it easy to secure a timing margin, permitting use in high-speed communication on the order of several GHz.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Michiko Tokumaru, Heiji Ikoma, Kouji Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130130384Abstract: A temperature responsive sheet is disclosed that comprises a chemically modified water-soluble elastin obtained by N-acylating at least some of the primary amines and secondary amines contained in a high molecular weight water-soluble elastin molecule and coupling some or all of carboxyl groups contained in the molecule with a glycine alkyl ester. Also is disclosed a process for producing a cell sheet that comprises preparing above the temperature responsive sheet a film that functions as a scaffold for animal cells, culturing specific cells on the film so as to prepare a cell sheet, and subsequently separating the cell sheet and the temperature responsive sheet comprising the chemically modified water-soluble elastin under conditions of no greater than the culturing temperature for the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kouji Okamoto, Erika Yoshino
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Patent number: 8439342Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus nicely performs an aligning operation for a sheet conveyed onto a process tray with a simple configuration. A switching member performs an operation of switching an aligning member from a non-contact state to a contact state before the sheet reaches a contact position on the tray or performs an operation of, while the sheet on the tray is being conveyed toward a sheet edge regulating member by the aligning member, switching the aligning member from the contact state to the non-contact state, and further switching the aligning member from the non-contact state to the contact state. Thus, the sheet processing apparatus reduces an occurrence of a conveyance failure caused by collision of a leading edge of thick paper with a return roller and a return guide member, and maintains good conveyance performance by preventing sheet stick caused by a coating material coated on coat paper.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Canon Finetech, Inc.Inventors: Kouji Okamoto, Yoshihiko Kitahara
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Patent number: 8395442Abstract: A filter circuit includes two parallel digital filters, a DAC, and an LPF. The DAC includes two parallel decoders, a parallel-to-serial converter, a switch driver, and a switch. A PLL circuit supplies a reference clock to the DAC. A frequency divider provided in the DAC divides the frequency of the reference clock by two, and supplies the half frequency clock to a parallel processing section (the two decoders and the parallel-to-serial converter) of the DAC and the two digital filters. This makes it easy to secure a timing margin, permitting use in high-speed communication on the order of several GHz.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Michiko Tokumaru, Heiji Ikoma, Kouji Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130040891Abstract: A chemically modified water-soluble elastin that is obtained by subjecting to N-acylating some or all of the primary amines and secondary amines contained in the molecule of a high molecular weight water-soluble elastin and coupling some or all of the carboxyl groups contained in the molecule with the amino group of an amino acid alkyl ester. A chemically modified water-soluble elastin/collagen mixed gel obtained by mixing a collagen with a chemically modified water-soluble elastin that is obtained by subjecting to N-acylating some or all of the primary amines and secondary amines contained in the molecule of a high molecular weight water-soluble elastin and coupling some or all of the carboxyl groups contained in the molecule with the amino group of an amino acid alkyl ester.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kouji Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Yosuke Maegawa, Ryota Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Adachi