Patents by Inventor Manabu Sawada

Manabu Sawada 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: 11924554
    Abstract: An imaging system (100) includes an imaging unit (140) configured to capture an image of a target object while the imaging unit (140) being mounted on a movable apparatus (500); and an exposure condition determination unit (161) configured to determine any one of a fixed exposure condition and an automatic exposure (AE) condition, as an exposure condition, based on a distance detected between the movable apparatus (500) and the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Yuji Yamanaka, Taro Kikuchi, Keito Sawada, Shusaku Takasu
  • Patent number: 11123832
    Abstract: A workpiece holding device includes: a chuck including a chuck body, and a plurality of chuck claws openably supported on the chuck body and configured to hold a workpiece; an operation rod configured to drive the plurality of chuck claws for opening and closing with movement of the operation rod; and a measuring apparatus configured to measure an opening dimension of the plurality of chuck claws based on a movement amount of the operation rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NAKAMURA-TOME PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Sawada, Naotsugu Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11117237
    Abstract: A machine tool includes: a hollow spindle including a hollow portion along an axial direction; a plurality of chuck claws openably mounted at a distal end portion of the hollow spindle, and configured to hold a workpiece; an operation rod inserted into the hollow portion of the hollow spindle in a movable manner, and configured to close the plurality of chuck claws with movement of the operation rod toward one side in the axial direction and open the plurality of chuck claws with movement of the operation rod toward the other side in the axial direction; and a measuring apparatus configured to measure an opening dimension of the plurality of chuck claws based on a movement amount of the operation rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NAKAMURA-TOME PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Sawada, Naotsugu Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200122240
    Abstract: A machine tool includes: a hollow spindle including a hollow portion along an axial direction; a plurality of chuck claws openably mounted at a distal end portion of the hollow spindle, and configured to hold a workpiece; an operation rod inserted into the hollow portion of the hollow spindle in a movable manner, and configured to close the plurality of chuck claws with movement of the operation rod toward one side in the axial direction and open the plurality of chuck claws with movement of the operation rod toward the other side in the axial direction; and a measuring apparatus configured to measure an opening dimension of the plurality of chuck claws based on a movement amount of the operation rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: NAKAMURA-TOME PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu SAWADA, Naotsugu NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200122285
    Abstract: A workpiece holding device includes: a chuck including a chuck body, and a plurality of chuck claws openably supported on the chuck body and configured to hold a workpiece; an operation rod configured to drive the plurality of chuck claws for opening and closing with movement of the operation rod; and a measuring apparatus configured to measure an opening dimension of the plurality of chuck claws based on a movement amount of the operation rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: NAKAMURA-TOME PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu SAWADA, Naotsugu NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10062889
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery that includes an electrode smoothing layer formed from a composite material including an active material and an organic substance and provided on the surface of at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a lithium-ion permeable ceramic separator layer formed from a composite material including insulating inorganic microparticles and an organic substance provided so as to be opposed to at least one of the positive electrode and negative electrode with the electrode smoothing layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Tanaka, Manabu Sawada, Yusuke Ueba
  • Patent number: 9793062
    Abstract: An electric storage device includes an electrolyte and an electric storage unit including a positive electrode including a positive-electrode collector electrode and a positive-electrode active-material layer disposed on the positive-electrode collector electrode; a negative electrode including a negative-electrode collector electrode and a negative-electrode active-material layer disposed on the negative-electrode collector electrode and facing the positive-electrode active-material layer; a first insulating layer bonded to the positive electrode and the negative electrode to isolate the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other; and a region that is sealed with the first insulating layer in plan view and that holds the electrolyte between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein an air permeability P of the first insulating layer satisfies the formula 1250 s/100 cc<P<95000 s/100 cc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Itaya, Keiji Horikawa, Manabu Sawada, Hiroyuki Harada, Yuusuke Ueba, Yukio Ehara, Yasuhiko Ueda, Yasutake Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9514893
    Abstract: An electrical storage unit that includes a positive electrode, which includes a positive-electrode collector electrode and a positive-electrode active material layer on the positive-electrode collector electrode, a negative electrode, which includes a negative-electrode collector electrode and a negative-electrode active material layer on the negative-electrode collector electrode, the negative-electrode active material layer facing the positive-electrode active material layer, and a first insulating layer bonded to the positive electrode and the negative electrode and separating the positive electrode from the negative electrode. The first insulating layer is bonded to part of a surface of the positive electrode and part of a surface of the negative electrode and includes a communication path for connecting the outside of the electrical storage unit to the inside of the electrical storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Itaya, Keiji Horikawa, Manabu Sawada, Hiroyuki Harada, Yuusuke Ueba, Yukio Ehara, Yasuhiko Ueda, Yasutake Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9368776
    Abstract: A power storage device having: a laminated body formed by providing a separator layer between a first electrode which is one of a cathode and an anode and a second electrode which is the other electrode; an electrolyte; and a package which houses the laminated body and the electrolyte. At least two first electrode composite sheets are included which are each obtained by integrating a first collector electrode, a first electrode active material layer provided on one principal surface of the first collector electrode, and a separator layer covering at least part of the one principal surface, and the other principal surface of the first collector electrode of one first electrode composite sheet out of the at least two first electrode composite sheets is opposed to, and bonded to, the other principal surface of the first collector electrode of the other first electrode composite sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji Horikawa, Yukio Ehara, Masaharu Itaya, Yasutake Fukuda, Manabu Sawada, Hiroyuki Harada, Yuusuke Ueba, Yasuhiko Ueda
  • Publication number: 20160028061
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery that includes an electrode smoothing layer formed from a composite material including an active material and an organic substance and provided on the surface of at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a lithium-ion permeable ceramic separator layer formed from a composite material including insulating inorganic microparticles and an organic substance provided so as to be opposed to at least one of the positive electrode and negative electrode with the electrode smoothing layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Manabu SAWADA, Yusuke UEBA
  • Publication number: 20140134487
    Abstract: An electric storage device includes an electrolyte and an electric storage unit including a positive electrode including a positive-electrode collector electrode and a positive-electrode active-material layer disposed on the positive-electrode collector electrode; a negative electrode including a negative-electrode collector electrode and a negative-electrode active-material layer disposed on the negative-electrode collector electrode and facing the positive-electrode active-material layer; a first insulating layer bonded to the positive electrode and the negative electrode to isolate the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other; and a region that is sealed with the first insulating layer in plan view and that holds the electrolyte between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein an air permeability P of the first insulating layer satisfies the formula 1250 s/100 cc<P<95000 s/100 cc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Itaya, Keiji Horikawa, Manabu Sawada, Hiroyuki Harada, Yuusuke Ueba, Yukio Ehara, Yasuhiko Ueda, Yasutake Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140106191
    Abstract: An electrical storage unit that includes a positive electrode, which includes a positive-electrode collector electrode and a positive-electrode active material layer on the positive-electrode collector electrode, a negative electrode, which includes a negative-electrode collector electrode and a negative-electrode active material layer on the negative-electrode collector electrode, the negative-electrode active material layer facing the positive-electrode active material layer, and a first insulating layer bonded to the positive electrode and the negative electrode and separating the positive electrode from the negative electrode. The first insulating layer is bonded to part of a surface of the positive electrode and part of a surface of the negative electrode and includes a communication path for connecting the outside of the electrical storage unit to the inside of the electrical storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Itaya, Keiji Horikawa, Manabu Sawada, Hiroyuki Harada, Yuusuke Ueba, Yukio Ehara, Yasuhiko Ueda, Yasutake Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7971128
    Abstract: A soft decision value correction method can detect interference occurring in a desired wave and correct a soft decision value where a received power difference between the desired wave and an interference wave is small. A receiver and a program capable of performing the soft decision value correction method are provided. In the receiver an EVM calculator sets a detection distance for a primary modulation symbol of the first subcarrier in the first OFDM symbol as a reference, and calculates an evaluation value ?El,m that is an index of a distance between the primary modulation symbol of the reception signal and the reference. When the evaluation value ?El,m is greater than or equal to a normal threshold, a weighting controller infers that interference occurred, and multiplies a soft decision value Wl,m,n by a weighting factor to calculate a corrected soft decision value Vl,m,n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunobu Sugiura, Manabu Sawada
  • Patent number: 7694206
    Abstract: A reception apparatus, method and a program using the reception method are provided to prevent degradation of reception quality due to interference. In a reception apparatus, an ADC samples data rIq[k] and rQq[k]. Based on the sampled data, a level detector finds an interference evaluation value Cc[l] for each OFDM symbol by counting the number of times one of the data rIq[k]q and rQq[kq] is clipped to the maximum output range of the ADC. When the interference evaluation value Cc[l] is greater than or equal to an interference decision value thc, a weighting control section corrects a soft-decision value wl,m,n by multiplying it by a weighting factor ?c so as to decrease contribution of an error correction code to decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Sawada
  • Patent number: 7643585
    Abstract: A method for correcting a soft decision value includes: demodulating a reception signal, which is coded by an error correction code and modulated in order to represent one or multiple bits with one symbol; generating the soft decision value, which is used in decoding of the error correction code; multiplying the soft decision value by a weight factor to correct the soft decision value; estimating an amplitude of the reception signal in every predetermined measurement time period; and variably setting the weight factor in a symbol unit in accordance with an estimating result so that a corrected soft decision value approaches to a predetermined amplitude range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20080120528
    Abstract: A reception apparatus, method and a program using the reception method are provided to prevent degradation of reception quality due to interference. In a reception apparatus, an ADC samples data rIq[k] and rQq[k]. Based on the sampled data, a level detector finds an interference evaluation value Cc[l] for each OFDM symbol by counting the number of times one of the data rIq[k]q and rQq[kq] is clipped to the maximum output range of the ADC. When the interference evaluation value Cc[l] is greater than or equal to an interference decision value thc, a weighting control section corrects a soft-decision value wl,m,n by multiplying it by a weighting factor ?c so as to decrease contribution of an error correction code to decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20080120529
    Abstract: A soft decision value correction method can detect interference occurring in a desired wave and correct a soft decision value where a received power difference between the desired wave and an interference wave is small. A receiver and a program capable of performing the soft decision value correction method are provided. In the receiver an EVM calculator sets a detection distance for a primary modulation symbol of the first subcarrier in the first OFDM symbol as a reference, and calculates an evaluation value ?El,m that is an index of a distance between the primary modulation symbol of the reception signal and the reference. When the evaluation value ?El,m is greater than or equal to a normal threshold, a weighting controller infers that interference occurred, and multiplies a soft decision value Wl,m,n by a weighting factor to calculate a corrected soft decision value Vl,m,n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunobu Sugiura, Manabu Sawada
  • Patent number: 7313180
    Abstract: A receiving unit of a receiving device receives a signal arriving thereto through a transmission path as a reception signal. A delay unit outputs a delay signal obtained by delaying the reception signal by a predetermined delay time. An estimation unit estimates a transmission path characteristic. An equalizer/demodulator compensates for the delay signal with the transmission path characteristic, demodulates the compensation result, and outputs the demodulation result as a transmission signal. A replica unit compensates for the reception signal with the transmission path characteristic, demodulates the compensation result, modulates the demodulation result, and outputs the modulation result as a replica signal. The estimation unit estimates a transmission path characteristic by comparing the reception signal with the replica signal. The predetermined delay time is equal to or smaller than a time required for the processes by the replica unit and the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Incorporated Administrative Agency
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Masayuki Fujise, Ryuuhei Funada, Manabu Sawada
  • Patent number: 7286504
    Abstract: A communication zone is defined by a plurality of cells, which are separated from one another and has respective fixed base stations. The base stations in the first cell and the last cell are capable of bidirectional communication with a mobile station, while other base stations are capable of unidirectional communication. The base stations are connected to a zone control station, which controls communications with the mobile station within the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignees: DENSO Corporation, Communications Research Laboratory, Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Manabu Sawada, Kunihiko Sasaki, Hiroshi Harada, Masayuki Fujise
  • Patent number: D559208
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yoshino, Ryo Tezuka, Manabu Sawada