Patents by Inventor Makoto Taguchi
Makoto Taguchi 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: 10829080Abstract: A side airbag apparatus which allows a reduced amount of base fabric and, enables gas to flow efficiently inside the cushion. An inflator (110) supplies gas, a cushion (104) in which base fabrics are formed into a bag shape and inflates and deploys to protect an occupant (118) during a vehicle emergency, a base fabric joint portion (120) which is provided to join main panels 108a and 108b of the cushion (104) in a linear manner and partitions the cushion (104) into a rear chamber (114), a front chamber (116), and an opening (123) provided midway along the base fabric joint portion (120). The base fabric joint portion (120) includes vent forming portions 125a and 125b arranged in two rows which extend from both ends of the opening (123) towards the front chamber (116) or rear chamber (114) and form a projecting vent (124). The projecting vent (124) permits flow of gas between the rear chamber (114) and the front chamber (116).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Yutaka Nakajima, Hideho Fukuda, Mitsuo Nogami, Yuto Kobayashi, Makoto Fuma
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Patent number: 10773391Abstract: A control device includes a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot provided with a manipulator, wherein in a case where the processor is configured to cause an end effector connected to the manipulator assemble a first object held by the end effector to a second object and a third object, the processor is configured to: cause the first object to come into contact with at least one of the second object and the third object; rotate the first object around a second rotation axis intersecting a first rotation axis while rotating the first object around the first rotation axis to assemble the second object and the first object to each other; and thereafter, rotate the first object around a third rotation axis intersecting the first rotation axis to assemble the third object and the first object to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Makoto Taguchi
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Patent number: 10773399Abstract: A control device controls the arm such that a first contacting operation of setting an object to a first orientation and bringing the object into contact with an inserted object is performed, and an inserting operation of setting the object to a second orientation different from the first orientation and inserting the object by moving the object in a first direction is performed. Between the first contacting operation and the inserting operation, the control device performs a second contacting operation of bringing the object and the inserted object into contact in a portion different from a contact portion in the first contacting operation by performing force control such that a component of a target force in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is set to a value greater than 0 based on an output from the force sensor at an orientation at which the object is tilted.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Makoto Taguchi
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Publication number: 20200225366Abstract: Provided are a radiation measurement device and method that allow stable radiation measurement as compared with the prior art. The radiation measurement device includes a radiation detection unit 1 having a scintillator, an optical transmission member 21 for transmitting an optical signal generated in the radiation detection unit, and a signal processing unit 3 for calculating a radiation dose from the optical signal transmitted. The signal processing unit includes a compensation unit 7 for obtaining an optical transmission loss amount from a change in wavelength spectrum in the optical signal caused by radiation acting on the optical transmission member and performs compensation-control on the optical transmission loss amount, and outputs a compensated signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki TAGUCHI, Masateru HAYASHI, Tetsushi AZUMA, Makoto SASANO, Akihide SHIRATSUKI
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Publication number: 20200116714Abstract: To provide a device capable of cancer diagnosis with high sensitivity and specificity, a cancer diagnosis device (1) includes: an extracellular vesicle capturing section (16 to 18) including immobilization supports on which lectins are immobilized respectively, the lectins being each capable of binding specifically to a surface sugar chain included in an extracellular vesicle derived from a cancer cell, the immobilization supports corresponding respectively to one or more kinds of the surface sugar chain; and a detecting section configured to detect a microRNA included in the extracellular vesicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Kanji HORI, Makoto HIRAYAMA, Ikuro MARUYAMA, Yoshihiro TAGUCHI, Hiroshi KUROKAWA, Kenya KOBAYASHI, Hiroyoshi MINAKUCHI
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Publication number: 20190339161Abstract: A failure diagnosis device for a reduction gear is a failure diagnosis device for a reduction gear provided to a mechanical apparatus driven by a motor so that the reduction gear slows down rotation power of the motor and transmits the power to an operating part of the mechanical apparatus. The device identifies an acceleration/deceleration period during which operation of the mechanical apparatus accelerates and/or decelerates, and determines whether the reduction gear indicates a sign of failure based on a change in frequency spectrum of motor current with respect to a change in a rotation speed of the motor during the acceleration/deceleration period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya TAGUCHI, Shinji KITAMURA, Makoto KAWAI, Tetsuo KANEDA
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Patent number: 10467945Abstract: In a predetermined main frame, a display device exerts lighting control on a first LED in a predetermined pixel with a corrected first LED gradation value lower than a first LED gradation value according to gradation data, and exerts lighting control on a second LED included in the predetermined pixel with a second LED gradation value according to gradation data. The predetermined main frame is at least one main frame included in the plurality of main frames. In the predetermined main frame, the first LED gradation value is lower than a first reference value, the second LED gradation value is lower than a second reference value, and a rate of a steady-state period to a whole lighting period in at least one lighting period is smaller than a predetermined value of less than 50% in at least one sub-frame in which lighting control is exerted over the first LED.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Matsumoto, Haruhisa Taguchi
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Patent number: 10351092Abstract: An airbag apparatus capable of protecting an occupant by restraining movement of the occupant in an obliquely forward direction and towards a far side during a collision. A far side airbag apparatus (102), which is an airbag apparatus, deploys between a driver seat (106) and a front passenger seat (108) arranged side by side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle cabin (100). The apparatus (102) includes a cushion (120) which is embedded in a floor of the vehicle cabin (100) and reaches a height at least equal to that of a pelvis region (160) of an occupant (156) seated in either one of the driver seat (106) and the front passenger seat (108) during inflation and deployment.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Hiroyuki Taguchi, Yutaka Nakajima, Hideho Fukuda, Mitsuo Nogami, Yuto Kobayashi, Makoto Fuma
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Patent number: 10308735Abstract: A material for an organic light-emitting device, the material including a repeating unit represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1, A, and X1 are the same as described in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi Tsuji, Koji Hasegawa, Makoto Taguchi
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Publication number: 20190137999Abstract: An autonomous running vehicle transmits a camera image around the vehicle photographed by a camera to a remote monitoring center. An obstacle is detected on the basis of information obtained from autonomous sensors including the camera. When an obstacle is detected, the autonomous running vehicle is automatically stopped. The remote monitoring center determines, when the autonomous running vehicle automatically stops, whether or not the run of the autonomous running vehicle is permitted to restart on the basis of the received camera video. When it is determined that the autonomous running vehicle can be restarted, a departure signal is transmitted to the autonomous running vehicle. When the departure signal is received from the remote monitoring center, the autonomous running vehicle restarts running.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji TAGUCHI, Makoto MORITA
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Publication number: 20180339414Abstract: A control device controls the arm such that a first contacting operation of setting an object to a first orientation and bringing the object into contact with an inserted object is performed, and an inserting operation of setting the object to a second orientation different from the first orientation and inserting the object by moving the object in a first direction is performed. Between the first contacting operation and the inserting operation, the control device performs a second contacting operation of bringing the object and the inserted object into contact in a portion different from a contact portion in the first contacting operation by performing force control such that a component of a target force in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is set to a value greater than 0 based on an output from the force sensor at an orientation at which the object is tilted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Makoto TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180200893Abstract: A control device includes a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot provided with a manipulator, wherein in a case where the processor is configured to cause an end effector connected to the manipulator assemble a first object held by the end effector to a second object and a third object, the processor is configured to: cause the first object to come into contact with at least one of the second object and the third object; rotate the first object around a second rotation axis intersecting a first rotation axis while rotating the first object around the first rotation axis to assemble the second object and the first object to each other; and thereafter, rotate the first object around a third rotation axis intersecting the first rotation axis to assemble the third object and the first object to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventor: Makoto TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 9991576Abstract: An electronic apparatus case including: a circuit board provided on a lower case, the circuit board having a plurality of signal lines in parallel, each specified area of the circuit board between each adjacent pair of the plurality of signal lines having a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes, the plurality of first and second through holes respectively being arranged in a first and a second lines at substantially equal interval of ? or less of a wavelength of signals propagating in the plurality of signal lines, the first line and the second line being arranged in parallel, each center of each of the plurality of first through holes and each center of each of the plurality of second through holes being shifted with a gap in a direction of the first line and the second line.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Taguchi, Noritoshi Ogawa, Tomoaki Satou, Hiroyuki Fujita, Hokuto Kakizaki
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Patent number: 9496584Abstract: A wound-type accumulator is equipped with a cylindrical wound electrode unit, which has belt-like positive electrode and negative electrode and configured by winding an electrode stack obtained by stacking the positive electrode and negative electrode through a separator from one end thereof, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode and/or the positive electrode is doped with lithium ions by electrochemical contact of the negative electrode and/or the positive electrode with a lithium ion source, intra-positive electrode spaces are formed in the positive electrode, and at least one lithium ion source is provided in the intra-positive electrode space or at a position opposing to the intra-positive electrode space in the negative electrode in a state coming into no contact with the positive electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: JM Energy CorporationInventors: Makoto Taguchi, Yuu Watanabe, Nobuo Ando, Naoshi Yasuda, Chisato Marumo
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Patent number: 9496541Abstract: An accumulator device includes: an outer container with mutually overlapped outer films bonded air-tightly to each other at a bonding portion formed along respective outer peripheral edge portions; an electrode unit accommodated inside the outer container and including positive and negative electrode sheets stacked one on another with a separator disposed therebetween, the positive and negative electrode sheets each including a current collector on which an electrode layer is formed; positive and negative electrode terminals provided to protrude from inside the outer container to outside through the bonding portion; and an electrolytic solution injected in the outer container. The positive electrode terminal includes an aluminum terminal substrate and a nickel-plating coating formed on a surface of an outer end portion of the terminal substrate located outside the outer container; an inner edge of the nickel-plating coating is located within the bonding portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: JM Energy CorporationInventors: Makoto Taguchi, Yuu Watanabe, Nobuo Ando, Hidenori Takagi
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Patent number: 9464335Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for improving fatigue strength that is capable of improving the fatigue strength of cast iron, specifically spherical graphite cast iron, to the same level as that of carbon steel subjected 10 carburizing and quenching. To this end, this method contains a step for performing first, second and third shot peenings using shot of a prescribed diameter for each on spherical graphite cast iron on which a quenching and tempering heat treatment or austempering heat treatment has been performed and tensile strength made to be 1200 MPa or more, the spherical graphite cast iron containing the following elements in the following mass percentages: C=2.0-4.0%, Si=1.5-4.5%, Mn=2.0% or less, P=O.08% or less, 8=0.03% or less, Mg=0.02-0.1%, and Cu=1.8-4.0%.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: UD TRUCKS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Nozaki, Makoto Taguchi, Kazuhiro Hirakawa
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Publication number: 20160286643Abstract: An electronic apparatus case including: a circuit board provided on a lower case, the circuit board having a plurality of signal lines in parallel, each specified area of the circuit board between each adjacent pair of the plurality of signal lines having a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes, the plurality of first and second through holes respectively being arranged in a first and a second lines at substantially equal interval of 1/8 or less of a wavelength of signals propagating in the plurality of signal lines, the first line and the second line being arranged in parallel, each center of each of the plurality of first through holes and each center of each of the plurality of second through holes being shifted with a gap in a direction of the first line and the second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Makoto TAGUCHI, Noritoshi OGAWA, Tomoaki SATOU, Hiroyuki FUJITA, Hokuto KAKIZAKI
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Publication number: 20160181535Abstract: A material for an organic light-emitting device, the material including a repeating unit represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1, A, and X1 are the same as described in the specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Masashi TSUJI, Koji HASEGAWA, Makoto TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 9340846Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for improving fatigue strength that is capable of improving the fatigue strength of cast iron, specifically spherical graphite cast iron, to the same level as that of carbon steel subjected 10 carburizing and quenching. To this end, this method contains a step for performing first, second and third shot peenings using shot of a prescribed diameter for each on spherical graphite cast iron on which a normalizing heat treatment has been performed at 800-950° C. and tensile strength made to be 850 MPa or more, the spherical graphite cast iron containing the following elements in the following mass percentages: C=2.0-4.0%, Si=1.5-4.5%, Mn=2.0% or less, P=0.08% or less, 8=0.03% or less, Mg=0.02-0.1%, and Cu=1.8-4.0%.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: UD TRUCKS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Nozaki, Makoto Taguchi, Kazuhiro Hirakawa
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Patent number: 9287058Abstract: An accumulator device which provides a high energy density and high output power is provided. The accumulator device (D) includes a positive electrode in which a positive electrode layer (A) is formed, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode layer (B) is formed, and an electrolytic solution (C). The accumulator device is characterized by satisfying that 1.02?WA/WB?2.08 and that 390 ?m?TA?750 ?m, where WA is the weight of the positive electrode layer (A), WB is the weight of the negative electrode layer (B), and TA is the thickness of the positive electrode in which the positive electrode layer (A) is formed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: JM Energy CorporationInventors: Nobuo Ando, Teruaki Tezuka, Yuu Watanabe, Makoto Taguchi, Kenji Kojima, Takashi Chiba, Hirobumi Suzuki