Patents by Inventor Kunio Takahashi
Kunio 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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Publication number: 20250086947Abstract: An image processing algorithm evaluating apparatus includes: an image storage unit that stores a plurality of actual images captured from a vehicle; an image generating unit that acquires a target image, when receiving disturbance information representing a disturbance in the target image from among the plurality of actual images stored in the image storage unit, interprets the target image, and generates a composite image by manipulating the target image in such a manner that the disturbance is reflected to the target image based on the interpretation; and an image processing unit that evaluates performance of an image processing algorithm for determining a situation around the vehicle based on the generated composite image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Yoshinao TAKAKUWA, Kunio TAKAHASHI, Masato IEHARA, Shunsuke KAMIJO, Daiki SHIOTSUKA, Ehsan JAVANMARDI
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Patent number: 12226658Abstract: The invention is to provide a radiation therapy system capable of widening a radiation irradiation range to a patient without increasing a burden on a structure. The radiation therapy system includes: a radiation source; a rotation mechanism that supports the radiation source and rotates the radiation source around an isocenter; a couch that places a therapy target site of a patient at the isocenter; a head swing mechanism that is disposed between the radiation source and the rotation mechanism and that swings an irradiation axis of a radiation emitted from the radiation source by swinging the radiation source; and a control unit that controls the radiation source, the rotation mechanism, and the head swing mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Kaneko, Kunio Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230419748Abstract: This invention comprises a first testing unit for testing the performance of a vehicle, at least one second testing unit for testing the performance of the vehicle using a different method from that of the first testing unit, and a data processing device for subjecting a test result from the first testing unit and a test result from the second testing unit to alignment processing on the basis of test conditions including a weather condition and outputting an evaluation. The first testing unit comprises an environment reproduction mechanism for reproducing an environment around the vehicle under test, a travel condition reproduction mechanism for moving in relation to the vehicle under test and reproducing a vehicle travel state, and a building that covers the environment reproduction mechanism and travel condition reproduction mechanism and makes the space around a testing stage an indoor space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Yoshinao TAKAKUWA, Mamoru JO, Kunio TAKAHASHI, Masato IEHARA
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Publication number: 20230302299Abstract: The invention is to provide a radiation therapy system capable of widening a radiation irradiation range to a patient without increasing a burden on a structure. The radiation therapy system includes: a radiation source; a rotation mechanism that supports the radiation source and rotates the radiation source around an isocenter; a couch that places a therapy target site of a patient at the isocenter; a head swing mechanism that is disposed between the radiation source and the rotation mechanism and that swings an irradiation axis of a radiation emitted from the radiation source by swinging the radiation source; and a control unit that controls the radiation source, the rotation mechanism, and the head swing mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Shuji KANEKO, Kunio TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11697031Abstract: A radiation therapy system is capable of widening a radiation irradiation range to a patient and includes: a radiation source; a rotation mechanism that supports the radiation source in rotation around an isocenter; a couch that places a therapy target site of a patient at the isocenter; a head swing mechanism that is disposed between the radiation source and the rotation mechanism and that swings an irradiation axis of a radiation emitted from the radiation source by swinging the radiation source; and a controller. The controller holds the head swing mechanism in a state where the irradiation axis of the radiation of the radiation source is shifted from the isocenter in a predetermined direction by a predetermined amount, and rotates the radiation source by the rotation mechanism while emitting the radiation from the radiation source while maintaining the state of the head swing mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shuji Kaneko, Kunio Takahashi
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Publication number: 20210299473Abstract: A radiation therapy system is capable of widening a radiation irradiation range to a patient and includes: a radiation source; a rotation mechanism that supports the radiation source in rotation around an isocenter; a couch that places a therapy target site of a patient at the isocenter; a head swing mechanism that is disposed between the radiation source and the rotation mechanism and that swings an irradiation axis of a radiation emitted from the radiation source by swinging the radiation source; and a controller. The controller holds the head swing mechanism in a state where the irradiation axis of the radiation of the radiation source is shifted from the isocenter in a predetermined direction by a predetermined amount, and rotates the radiation source by the rotation mechanism while emitting the radiation from the radiation source while maintaining the state of the head swing mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Shuji KANEKO, Kunio TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10478641Abstract: A radiotherapy device control apparatus instructs a radiotherapy device to execute instruction information based on a treatment regimen determined in advance, controls the operations of an irradiation-related instrument provided in the radiotherapy device on the basis of irradiation conditions included in the instruction information, determines whether irradiation is permitted on the basis of results detected by an irradiation target detection unit that detects movement of a target to be irradiated, controls execution and interruption of therapeutic irradiation on the basis of the determined result, stores the history of interruption of irradiation according to the determination by the irradiation permission determination unit, and causes the instrument to run the operations based on the instruction information to completion, regardless of whether irradiation has been interrupted during execution of the instruction information.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Kaneko, Kunio Takahashi
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Patent number: 10398913Abstract: Provided is a control device for a radiation irradiation device including a position-related information acquisition portion that acquires position-related information related to a position of a particular site; a model generation portion that generates a model outputting the position of the particular site based on the position-related information; and a particular site position calculation portion that outputs the position of the particular site based on the position-related information acquired by the position-related information acquisition portion, by using the model generated by the model generation portion. The model generated by the model generation portion is provided with a filter regulating an amount of change in the position of the particular site output by the model.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventor: Kunio Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180265372Abstract: An object of the present invention is to easily obtain zirconium oxide particles that contain a metallic element such as a rare earth oxide (preferably stabilized with a metallic element) and exhibit good dispersibility in organic media, without using an aqueous sulfate solution such as an aqueous solution of MgSO4, or using a reduced amount of the aqueous sulfate solution. The present invention is a zirconium oxide nanoparticle coated with a first carboxylic acid that is at least one of primary carboxylic acids and secondary carboxylic acids and has 3 or more carbon atoms, wherein the zirconium oxide nanoparticle comprises at least one selected from the group M consisting of rare earth elements, Al, Fe, Co, Sn, Zn, In, Bi, Mn, Ni, and Cu.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki YAO, Junya KIMURA, Kunio TAKAHASHI, Takeo AKATSUKA
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Patent number: 9974981Abstract: This device for controlling a radiation treatment device is provided with a gantry for supporting a radiation emitting device so as to enable rotation thereof about a first axis, and a ring for supporting the gantry so as to enable rotation thereof about a second axis intersecting with the first axis, the device for controlling a radiation treatment device being provided with a movement path information storage unit for storing movement path information set in the radiation emitting device, and a control unit for providing a limit to the rotation speed of the gantry and the rotation speed of the ring while maintaining the ratio of the rotation speed of the gantry and the rotation speed of the ring indicated by the movement path information, on the basis of the rotation angle of the gantry and the rotation angle of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Kunio Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180008842Abstract: A radiotherapy device control apparatus instructs a radiotherapy device to execute instruction information based on a treatment regimen determined in advance, controls the operations of an irradiation-related instrument provided in the radiotherapy device on the basis of irradiation conditions included in the instruction information, determines whether irradiation is permitted on the basis of results detected by an irradiation target detection unit that detects movement of a target to be irradiated, controls execution and interruption of therapeutic irradiation on the basis of the determined result, stores the history of interruption of irradiation according to the determination by the irradiation permission determination unit, and causes the instrument to run the operations based on the instruction information to completion, regardless of whether irradiation has been interrupted during execution of the instruction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji KANEKO, Kunio TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9724048Abstract: This imaging controller of the imaging controller includes: an imager position determination section that determines whether or not a first imager is located in an overlapping region where a rotation range of the first imager and a rotation range of a second imager overlap each other when a rotation mechanism rotates the first and second imagers by an angle greater than the predetermined angle; and an imaging timing control section that causes one or both of the first and second imagers to perform imaging when arrival of an imaging timing is detected and that causes only the second imager to perform imaging in at least one imaging timing whose arrival is detected in a state where the imager position determination section determines that the first imager is located in the overlapping region.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takanobu Handa, Kunio Takahashi, Satoshi Muraki
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Publication number: 20160271423Abstract: Provided is a control device for a radiation irradiation device including a position-related information acquisition portion that acquires position-related information related to a position of a particular site; a model generation portion that generates a model outputting the position of the particular site based on the position-related information; and a particular site position calculation portion that outputs the position of the particular site based on the position-related information acquired by the position-related information acquisition portion, by using the model generated by the model generation portion. The model generated by the model generation portion is provided with a filter regulating an amount of change in the position of the particular site output by the model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Kunio TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160206899Abstract: A multileaf collimator includes leaves extending in a first direction; a frame supporting the leaves so that the leaves are advanceable and retractable in a state where the leaves are placed side by side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; shafts extending in the second direction and corresponding to the leaves; driving units respectively connected to base ends of the shafts for rotating the shafts around axial lines; and driving units provided at tips of the shafts and contacting portions of the leaves for advancing and retracting the leaves in the first direction by the rotation of the shafts around the axial lines. At least some of the shafts have the same shaft length. The driving units are arranged so that the positions thereof in the second direction are shifted from each other according to the positions of the tips of the shafts having the same length.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD.Inventors: Kunio TAKAHASHI, Akihiro MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 9393445Abstract: This radiation therapy device controller selects, for a plurality of body motion phases, computed tomography image data obtained which shows a diseased portion, and generates, for each rotation angles of a ray source and a sensor array, a reconstructed image. The control device generates a radiation projection image which shows the diseased portion when the radiation is radiated if the rotation angle is a predetermined rotation angle, compares the reconstructed image of each of the plurality of body motion phases with the radiation projection image, and determines a body motion phase indicated by a reconstructed image in which a difference is small, to be a current respiratory phase. As a result, a position of the diseased portion calculated for the computed tomography image data in the computed tomography image data group of the respiratory phase in advance is identified to be a current position of the diseased portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Yasunobu Suzuki, Kunio Takahashi
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Publication number: 20160166858Abstract: This device for controlling a radiation treatment device is provided with a gantry for supporting a radiation emitting device so as to enable rotation thereof about a first axis, and a ring for supporting the gantry so as to enable rotation thereof about a second axis intersecting with the first axis, the device for controlling a radiation treatment device being provided with a movement path information storage unit for storing movement path information set in the radiation emitting device, and a control unit for providing a limit to the rotation speed of the gantry and the rotation speed of the ring while maintaining the ratio of the rotation speed of the gantry and the rotation speed of the ring indicated by the movement path information, on the basis of the rotation angle of the gantry and the rotation angle of the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2013Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventor: Kunio TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160120494Abstract: A radiograph analysis device is configured to detect a marker area from a radiograph obtained by imaging a specimen in which a marker is embedded, and the radiograph analysis device includes a brightness relation information acquisition unit configured to acquire brightness relation information generated based on information related to a quantity of radiation and showing a relation between a brightness of the marker area and a brightness of a reference portion assumed to be a portion other than the marker, a reference brightness acquisition unit configured to acquire the brightness of the reference portion, and a marker area detection unit configured to detect the marker area based on the brightness relation information acquired by the brightness relation information acquisition unit and the brightness of the reference portion acquired by the reference brightness acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Kunio TAKAHASHI, Masahiro YAMADA, Akira SAWADA
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Patent number: 9284728Abstract: A honeycomb panel laminate includes a sound absorbing face made of a foam, a sound absorbing layer, and a sound insulating face made of a foam. The sound absorbing layer is composed of a honeycomb material and a layer obtained by filling spaces with a hard foam material. The honeycomb material is bonded to the sound absorbing face by applying an adhesive to edges of the honeycomb material of the sound absorbing layer and pressing the edges against the sound absorbing face so that the edges bite into the foam. The sound insulating face is obtained by applying an adhesive allover a surface of the sound insulating face that makes contact with the honeycomb material and pressing opposite edges of cell walls of the honeycomb material against the sound insulating face so that the opposite edges bite into the surface, having the adhesive, of the foam.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: SHIZUKA CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Take, Kunio Takahashi, Shunji Takahashi, Yoshihiko Ueki
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Publication number: 20150284947Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] In a laminated material based on a honeycomb material, there has been such a problem that the bonding between a honeycomb material serving as a base and two face materials between which the honeycomb material is sandwiched requires bonding between planar members having great rigidity with a high degree of planar accuracy and honeycomb members that are linear and not completely flat, thus making it to obtain a great deal of bonding force. [Solution] A honeycomb panel laminate includes a sound absorbing face, a sound absorbing layer, and a sound insulating face. The sound absorbing face is made of a foam. The sound absorbing layer is composed of a honeycomb material and a layer obtained by filling spaces with a hard foam material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2012Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Koichi Take, Kunio Takahashi, Shunji Takahashi, Yoshihiko Ueki
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Patent number: 9149654Abstract: A radiotherapy device controller includes: a visual line calculator configured to calculate a visual line based on a position on a transmissive image imaged using a radiation penetrating a subject, a specific part of the subject being shown at the position; a position calculator configured to calculate a position of the specific part based on a position of a trajectory of the specific part and a position of the visual line; and an emitter configured to control a radiation emitter that emits a therapeutic radiation, so that the therapeutic radiation penetrates at the position of the specific part.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Takanobu Handa, Kunio Takahashi, Kenji Takayama, Takashi Mizowaki, Masahiro Hiraoka, Yuichiro Narita