Patents by Inventor Maki Maeda
Maki Maeda 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: 11325262Abstract: A robot includes an operator and a processor. The operator is configured to cause a robot to operate. The processor acquires adornment information indicating an adornment that is applied to the robot, the adornment information being obtained based on a captured image of the robot. The processor controls the operator to perform an operation corresponding to the acquired adornment information.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Maki Maeda, Toshihiko Otsuka
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Patent number: 10969790Abstract: In an autonomous mobile apparatus, a processor acquires map information including positional information of an obstacle, plans, based on the acquired map information, a shape of the autonomous mobile apparatus and a traveling path of the autonomous mobile apparatus to avoid contact between the autonomous mobile apparatus and the obstacle when the autonomous mobile apparatus is traveling along the traveling path, and causes the autonomous mobile apparatus to autonomously travel along the planned traveling path while assuming the planned shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Maki Maeda
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Publication number: 20190294171Abstract: In an autonomous mobile apparatus, a processor acquires map information including positional information of an obstacle, plans, based on the acquired map information, a shape of the autonomous mobile apparatus and a traveling path of the autonomous mobile apparatus to avoid contact between the autonomous mobile apparatus and the obstacle when the autonomous mobile apparatus is traveling along the traveling path, and causes the autonomous mobile apparatus to autonomously travel along the planned traveling path while assuming the planned shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Maki MAEDA
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Publication number: 20190193279Abstract: A robot includes an operator and a processor. The operator is configured to cause a robot to operate. The processor acquires adornment information indicating an adornment that is applied to the robot, the adornment information being obtained based on a captured image of the robot. The processor controls the operator to perform an operation corresponding to the acquired adornment information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Maki MAEDA, Toshihiko OTSUKA
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Patent number: 9966095Abstract: A magnetic media for magnetic data recording having reduced signal noise. The magnetic media includes a magnetic recording layer that has first, second and third portions. The first portion at the bottom of the magnetic recording layer includes an oxide and has a high anisotropy field. The third portion, located at the top of the magnetic recording layer has a low anisotropy field and does not include an oxide. The second portion, located between the first and third portions has an anisotropy field that is between that of the first and third magnetic portions. The second portion includes a thin layer of a material that has an extremely low anisotropy field that is located within a material having a higher magnetic anisotropy.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Shun Tonooka, Masayoshi Shimizu, Maki Maeda, Kiwamu Tanahashi
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Publication number: 20180040345Abstract: A magnetic media for magnetic data recording having reduced signal noise. The magnetic media includes a magnetic recording layer that has first, second and third portions. The first portion at the bottom of the magnetic recording layer includes an oxide and has a high anisotropy field. The third portion, located at the top of the magnetic recording layer has a low anisotropy field and does not include an oxide. The second portion, located between the first and third portions has an anisotropy field that is between that of the first and third magnetic portions. The second portion includes a thin layer of a material that has an extremely low anisotropy field that is located within a material having a higher magnetic anisotropy.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Shun Tonooka, Masayoshi Shimizu, Maki Maeda, Kiwamu Tanahashi
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Patent number: 9099102Abstract: Approaches to improving the signal-to-noise ratio in a microwave-assisted magnetic recording hard disk drive over the entire region from the inner diameter to the outer diameter of the disk, especially in the context of shingled magnetic recording, include a narrower side gap on the side opposing a spin torque oscillator offset direction than the side gap in the offset direction, thereby increasing the gradient of the recording magnetic field in the cross-track direction and reducing the track edge noise of the recording pattern. Embodiments include use of a side shield on the side opposing the offset direction that has a higher saturation magnetization than the side shield on the side in the offset direction, thereby further increasing the gradient of the recording magnetic field in the cross-track direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hiroyuki Katada, Masato Shiimoto, Maki Maeda
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Publication number: 20150131183Abstract: Approaches to improving the signal-to-noise ratio in a microwave-assisted magnetic recording hard disk drive over the entire region from the inner diameter to the outer diameter of the disk, especially in the context of shingled magnetic recording, include a narrower side gap on the side opposing a spin torque oscillator offset direction than the side gap in the offset direction, thereby increasing the gradient of the recording magnetic field in the cross-track direction and reducing the track edge noise of the recording pattern. Embodiments include use of a side shield on the side opposing the offset direction that has a higher saturation magnetization than the side shield on the side in the offset direction, thereby further increasing the gradient of the recording magnetic field in the cross-track direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki Katada, Masato Shiimoto, Maki Maeda
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Patent number: 8964332Abstract: Approaches to improving the signal-to-noise ratio in a microwave-assisted magnetic recording hard disk drive over the entire region from the inner diameter to the outer diameter of the disk, especially in the context of shingled magnetic recording, include a narrower side gap on the side opposing a spin torque oscillator offset direction than the side gap in the offset direction, thereby increasing the gradient of the recording magnetic field in the cross-track direction and reducing the track edge noise of the recording pattern. Embodiments include use of a side shield on the side opposing the offset direction that has a higher saturation magnetization than the side shield on the side in the offset direction, thereby further increasing the gradient of the recording magnetic field in the cross-track direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hiroyuki Katada, Masato Shiimoto, Maki Maeda
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Patent number: 8705206Abstract: A magnetic data storage system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic head adapted to record data according to a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) process. The magnetic head includes a main pole adapted to produce a writing magnetic field, a trailing shield positioned above a trailing side of the main pole, wherein a trailing gap is defined between the trailing shield and the main pole, and a spin torque oscillator (STO) positioned above a first trailing corner of the main pole at an STO-side of the main pole, wherein the trailing gap has a greater length in a film thickness direction near the STO-side of the main pole and a lesser length in the film thickness direction near a second trailing corner of the main pole opposite the first trailing corner in a track width direction of the main pole.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Maki Maeda, Masato Shiimoto, Hiroyuki Katada
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Patent number: 8630064Abstract: A magnetic write head having a gap structure that improves write head performance. The write head includes a magnetic write pole and a magnetic shield that is separated from the trailing edge of the write pole by a non-magnetic trailing gap layer and is separated from the sides of the write pole by non-magnetic side gap layers. The trailing gap extends laterally beyond the side gap layers, and a convex bump is formed at an edge of the magnetic shield at a location near the trailing end of each of the side gap layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Maki Maeda, Kimitoshi Eto, Hiromi Shiina, Kazue Kudo, Masafumi Mochizuki
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Patent number: 8577072Abstract: In an electronic device, a speaker attaching section 17 which is vertically open with respect to a circuit board 10 and into which a speaker 16 is press-fitted is integrally formed on a contact sheet 13 arranged on the circuit board 10 provided inside an upper case 8. Therefore, the speaker 16 can be easily attached in a manner that sound therefrom does not leak, simply by the speaker 16 being press-fitted into the speaker attaching section 17 of the contact sheet 13. Accordingly, in the present invention, the structure of the speaker section 6 is simple and the number of its components is small, whereby the thickness of the speaker section 6 can be reduced. In addition, sound generated by the speaker can be favorably and reliably emitted from the speaker attaching section 17 to the outside of the upper case 8, without chattering noise being generated.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Watanabe, Maki Maeda
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Publication number: 20130120876Abstract: A magnetic write head having a gap structure that improves write head performance. The write head includes a magnetic write pole and a magnetic shield that is separated from the trailing edge of the write pole by a non-magnetic trailing gap layer and is separated from the sides of the write pole by non-magnetic side gap layers. The trailing gap extends laterally beyond the side gap layers, and a convex bump is formed an edge of the magnetic shield at a location near the trailing end of the side gap layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Maki Maeda, Kimitoshi Eto, Hiromi Shiina, Kazue Kudo, Masafumi Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20120128196Abstract: In an electronic device, a speaker attaching section 17 which is vertically open with respect to a circuit board 10 and into which a speaker 16 is press-fitted is integrally formed on a contact sheet 13 arranged on the circuit board 10 provided inside an upper case 8. Therefore, the speaker 16 can be easily attached in a manner that sound therefrom does not leak, simply by the speaker 16 being press-fitted into the speaker attaching section 17 of the contact sheet 13. Accordingly, in the present invention, the structure of the speaker section 6 is simple and the number of its components is small, whereby the thickness of the speaker section 6 can be reduced. In addition, sound generated by the speaker can be favorably and reliably emitted from the speaker attaching section 17 to the outside of the upper case 8, without chattering noise being generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi WATANABE, Maki MAEDA
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Patent number: 7402348Abstract: A magnetic recording layer is formed on an auxiliary magnetic layer in a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The auxiliary magnetic layer has the axis of easy magnetization in the vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of a substrate. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium reliably allows establishment of the magnetization in the auxiliary magnetic layer in the vertical direction. When a magnetic flux flows along the vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the magnetic recording layer, the magnetic flux flows across the magnetic recording layer in the vertical direction. The magnetization is thus reliably established in the magnetic recording layer in the vertical direction. The magnetic field of a stronger intensity is thus leaked out of the magnetic recording layer in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroto Takeshita, Maki Maeda, Takuya Uzumaki
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Patent number: 7359147Abstract: A thin film magnetic head has a magnetic pole major layer terminated at a position receding from a medium-opposed surface. An intermediate magnetic layer extends forward toward the medium-opposed surface from the surface of the magnetic pole major layer. The intermediate magnetic layer is terminated at a position receding from the medium-opposed surface. A tip magnetic layer extends to the medium-opposed surface from the surface of the intermediate magnetic layer so as to expose the front end at the medium-opposed surface. The layered structure serves to diminish variation in the sectional area of the path of the magnetic flux. Saturation of magnetic flux is sufficiently suppressed irrespective of the reduction in the sectional area. Even if the tip magnetic layer is reduced in lateral width, the tip magnetic layer allows a sufficient leakage of magnetic flux from the front end.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2004Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Maki Maeda
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Patent number: 7147940Abstract: The present invention provides a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that reduces medium noise and achieves thermal stability of recording magnetization. This perpendicular magnetic recording medium has a substrate and a recording layer formed by single-layered magnetic nanoparticles that are aligned at uniform intervals. An auxiliary magnetic film that is thinner than the recording layer is interposed between the substrate and the recording layer. The magnetization of the magnetic nanoparticles is secured by the exchange interaction effect of the auxiliary magnetic film.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Maki Maeda, Hiroto Takeshita, Takuya Uzumaki
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Publication number: 20050249982Abstract: A magnetic recording layer is formed on an auxiliary magnetic layer in a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The auxiliary magnetic layer has the axis of easy magnetization in the vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of a substrate. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium reliably allows establishment of the magnetization in the auxiliary magnetic layer in the vertical direction. When a magnetic flux flows along the vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the magnetic recording layer, the magnetic flux flows across the magnetic recording layer in the vertical direction. The magnetization is thus reliably established in the magnetic recording layer in the vertical direction. The magnetic field of a stronger intensity is thus leaked out of the magnetic recording layer in the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Hiroto Takeshita, Maki Maeda, Takuya Uzumaki
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Publication number: 20050196649Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic orientation controller layer serving as a layer for controlling crystalline orientation in an upper layer. A non-magnetic orientation controller layer extends on the surface of the magnetic orientation controller layer The non-magnetic orientation controller layer serves as a layer for controlling crystalline orientation in an upper layer. A magnetic recording layer extends on the surface of the non-magnetic orientation controller layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium allows a reliable establishment of a uniform crystalline orientation in the magnetic recording layer based on the influences from the magnetic and non-magnetic orientation controller layers. A reliable establishment of a uniform crystalline orientation can be achieved without an increase in the thickness of the non-magnetic orientation controller layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Ryosaku Inamura, Hiroto Takeshita, Toshio Sugimoto, Kazumasa Shimoda, Takenori Oshima, Maki Maeda, Takuya Uzumaki, Atsushi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050135007Abstract: A thin film magnetic head has a magnetic pole major layer terminated at a position receding from a medium-opposed surface. An intermediate magnetic layer extends forward toward the medium-opposed surface from the surface of the magnetic pole major layer. The intermediate magnetic layer is terminated at a position receding from the medium-opposed surface. A tip magnetic layer extends to the medium-opposed surface from the surface of the intermediate magnetic layer so as to expose the front end at the medium-opposed surface. The layered structure serves to diminish variation in the sectional area of the path of the magnetic flux. Saturation of magnetic flux is sufficiently suppressed irrespective of the reduction in the sectional area. Even if the tip magnetic layer is reduced in lateral width, the tip magnetic layer allows a sufficient leakage of magnetic flux from the front end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Maki Maeda