Patents by Inventor Manabu KANAYA

Manabu KANAYA 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).

  • Patent number: 11465276
    Abstract: A motion assist system includes a plurality of assist devices and a management device configured to manage the assist devices. The assist device includes: a power portion configured to generate power that assists the motion of the assist target person; a communication portion communicable with the management device; and a control device configured to transmit motion information of the power portion to the management device. The management device generates overall information that unifies working states of the assist target persons based on pieces of motion information and presents at least part of the overall information to the assist target persons or an administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kanaya, Shinji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11452662
    Abstract: A walking assist device has a frame, a plurality of wheels, drive units, a battery, and a drive control unit that controls the drive units. The walking assist device also has: a pair of right and left movable handles that are grasped by a user and movable back and forth with respect to the frame in accordance with arm swing performed during walk of the user; handle guide units provided on the frame to guide the movable handles in a movable range that matches the arm swing performed during walk of the user; and a grasp portion state detection unit that detects the state of the movable handles. The drive control unit controls the travel speed of the walking assist device by controlling the drive units on the basis of the state of the movable handles which is detected using the grasp portion state detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kanaya, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Shinji Takeuchi, Genki Murata
  • Patent number: 11446201
    Abstract: A walking assist device has a frame, a pair of right and left arm portions, a pair of right and left grasp portions, wheels including a pair of right and left drive wheels, drive units, a battery, a drive control unit, acting force measurement units that measure acting forces on the grasp portions, and holding units that hold the grasp portions at a predetermined position in the front-rear direction of the arm portions set in advance. The walking assist device travels forward together with a user. The holding units generate a restoring force for returning the grasp portions to the predetermined position. The drive control unit controls the drive units on the basis of acting forces calculated on the basis of detection signals from the acting force measurement units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shibata, Manabu Kanaya, Shinji Takeuchi, Yuki Matsuoka, Genki Murata
  • Patent number: 11439566
    Abstract: A walking assist device has a frame, fixed handles, rails provided with movable handles, front wheels, rear wheels and that serve as drive wheels, drive units, a battery, and a drive control unit, and travels forward or rearward together with a user that walks while grasping the fixed handles or the movable handles. The walking assist device has an operation mode switching unit that switches between a training mode, in which a load is applied to operation of the body of the user performed as the user walks, and an assist mode in which a load on operation of the body of the user performed as the user walks is alleviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kanaya, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Shinji Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20210275369
    Abstract: There is provided a walking support system for a combined training including: a walking assist device configured to move in accordance with an operation of a user to assist a walking of the user; a voice output unit configured to output a voice; and a task load unit configured to perform a voice-output for a task to the user via the voice output unit when the walking assist device is used by the user during the walking, the task being answerable by the voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Shinji TAKEUCHI, Yuki MATSUOKA, Manabu KANAYA
  • Publication number: 20210220208
    Abstract: There are provided systems for providing a walking environment and supporting walking, and a method for providing a walking environment including: a location information collection step that collects a location information of a walking support equipment; an environmental information collection step that collects an environmental information used upon providing the walking environment while going out; and a process execution step that executes a process of providing the walking environment to an user of the walking support equipment, based on the environmental information collected in the environmental information collection step and the location information collected in the location information collection step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Manabu KANAYA, Yuki MATSUOKA, Osamu HONDA, Yusaku YASUI, Yoshinori WADA, Chishin YOHENA
  • Publication number: 20200230015
    Abstract: A walking assist device includes a frame; wheels including at least one driving wheel; at least one traveling drive unit; a battery; right and left handles; handle condition detection units; an electronic control unit configured to control the at least one traveling drive unit based on the conditions of the handles that are detected based on detection signals from the respective handle condition detection units; right and left shafts fixed to the respective handles and extending in a frame front-rear direction; and right and left tubes that are attached to the frame so as to extend in the frame front-rear direction, the tubes being configured to house the respective shafts such that the shafts are movable in the frame front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Manabu KANAYA, Yuki MATSUOKA, Genki MURATA
  • Publication number: 20200078258
    Abstract: A walking assist device includes: a frame; a pair of right and left arm portions; a pair of right and left grasp portions provided on the pair of right and left arm portions; a plurality of wheels including a drive wheel; a drive unit driving the drive wheel; a grasp portion drive unit configured to move the grasp portions; a battery; a control unit controlling the drive unit; and a grasp portion state detection unit detecting a state of each of the grasp portions. The control unit includes: a grasp portion state observation unit observing a grasp portion state that is a state of the grasp portions; a walking state evaluation unit evaluating a walking state of the user based on the grasp portion state observed using the grasp portion state observation unit; and a correction adjustment unit adjusting a control command for at least one of the drive unit and the grasp portion drive unit based on the walking state evaluated using the walking state evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Shinji TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200009003
    Abstract: A walking assist device has a frame, a pair of right and left arm portions, a pair of right and left grasp portions, wheels including a pair of right and left drive wheels, drive units, a battery, a drive control unit, acting force measurement units that measure acting forces on the grasp portions, and holding units that hold the grasp portions at a predetermined position in the front-rear direction of the arm portions set in advance. The walking assist device travels forward together with a user. The holding units generate a restoring force for returning the grasp portions to the predetermined position. The drive control unit controls the drive units on the basis of acting forces calculated on the basis of detection signals from the acting force measurement units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Manabu Kanaya, Shinji Takeuchi, Yuki Matsuoka, Genki Murata
  • Publication number: 20190314977
    Abstract: A motion assist system includes a plurality of assist devices and a management device configured to manage the assist devices. The assist device includes: a power portion configured to generate power that assists the motion of the assist target person; a communication portion communicable with the management device; and a control device configured to transmit motion information of the power portion to the management device. The management device generates overall information that unifies working states of the assist target persons based on pieces of motion information and presents at least part of the overall information to the assist target persons or an administrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Shinji TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190262216
    Abstract: A walking assist device has a frame, fixed handles, rails provided with movable handles, front wheels, rear wheels and that serve as drive wheels, drive units, a battery, and a drive control unit, and travels forward or rearward together with a user that walks while grasping the fixed handles or the movable handles. The walking assist device has an operation mode switching unit that switches between a training mode, in which a load is applied to operation of the body of the user performed as the user walks, and an assist mode in which a load on operation of the body of the user performed as the user walks is alleviated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Shinji TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190262217
    Abstract: A walking assist device has a frame, a plurality of wheels, drive units, a battery, and a drive control unit that controls the drive units. The walking assist device also has: a pair of right and left movable handles that are grasped by a user and movable back and forth with respect to the frame in accordance with arm swing performed during walk of the user; handle guide units provided on the frame to guide the movable handles in a movable range that matches the arm swing performed during walk of the user; and a grasp portion state detection unit that detects the state of the movable handles. The drive control unit controls the travel speed of the walking assist device by controlling the drive units on the basis of the state of the movable handles which is detected using the grasp portion state detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Shinji TAKEUCHI, Genki MURATA
  • Publication number: 20180137228
    Abstract: A simulation assist apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire a first index value included in an analysis object by a first simulation technique, acquire a second index value, acquire a third index value being obtained by processing a specific element being not permitted to be processed by the first simulation technique, and the first element by a second simulation technique, acquire a fourth index value being obtained by the second simulation technique, calculate an influence degree of the specific element based on a division value being obtained by dividing the value of the second index by the third index value, and a difference between the third index value and the fourth index value, and calculate a fifth index value being estimated to be obtained by processing the first simulation technique, based on the first index value and the influence degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Ryota Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9387145
    Abstract: A care support apparatus includes a lateral pair of leg links held by a main body. The leg links include first links provided with first wheels at respective one ends of the first links, and second links provided with second wheels at respective one ends of the second links and rotatably coupled to the first links. The second links are rotated to allow the first wheels to approach or leave the second wheels, respectively, to change the height of a main body from a ground surface to support a care receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Manabu Kanaya
  • Patent number: 9329959
    Abstract: A basic input/output system (BIOS) storage unit stores therein a BIOS. An operating system (OS) storage unit stores therein a plurality of OSs. A boot control unit sequentially starts the OSs stored in the OS storage unit. When each of the OSs booted by the boot control unit starts up, a boot information acquisition unit acquires boot information transferred between the OS and the BIOS. A regression analysis processing unit compares the boot information acquired by the boot information acquisition unit with expected values which are predetermined values for the boot information to determine whether the boot information coincides with the expected values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, FUJITSU ADVANCED ENGINEERING LIMITED
    Inventors: Manabu Kanaya, Yasushi Sekiguchi, Takashi Ohhashi
  • Publication number: 20160008207
    Abstract: A care support apparatus includes a lateral pair of leg links held by a main body. The leg links include first links provided with first wheels at respective one ends of the first links, and second links provided with second wheels at respective one ends of the second links and rotatably coupled to the first links. The second links are rotated to allow the first wheels to approach or leave the second wheels, respectively, to change the height of a main body from a ground surface to support a care receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi OHTA, Manabu KANAYA
  • Patent number: 8775695
    Abstract: A specific identification information management device coupled to a feature expansion device includes: a storage unit configured to store the specific identification information of the feature expansion device; a detection unit configured to detect access to the feature expansion device; and a control unit configured to transmit the specific identification information stored in the storage unit to the source of access to the feature expansion device when the access is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Manabu Kanaya, Yukio Oguma
  • Publication number: 20130339718
    Abstract: A basic input/output system (BIOS) storage unit stores therein a BIOS. An operating system (OS) storage unit stores therein a plurality of OSs. A boot control unit sequentially starts the OSs stored in the OS storage unit. When each of the OSs booted by the boot control unit starts up, a boot information acquisition unit acquires boot information transferred between the OS and the BIOS. A regression analysis processing unit compares the boot information acquired by the boot information acquisition unit with expected values which are predetermined values for the boot information to determine whether the boot information coincides with the expected values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: FUJITSU ADVANCED ENGINEERING LIMITED, FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Yasushi Sekiguchi, Takashi Ohhashi
  • Publication number: 20120011288
    Abstract: A specific identification information management device coupled to a feature expansion device includes: a storage unit configured to store the specific identification information of the feature expansion device; a detection unit configured to detect access to the feature expansion device; and a control unit configured to transmit the specific identification information stored in the storage unit to the source of access to the feature expansion device when the access is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Manabu KANAYA, Yukio OGUMA