Patents by Inventor Masaaki Ono

Masaaki Ono 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119783
    Abstract: A pattern variably displaying device includes: sphere reels, in which patterns are described on a surface of a sphere; a sphere driving device, driving each of the sphere reels; and a reel control part, controlling the sphere driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro ONO, Masaaki Sumi, Takuya Kudo, Takehiro Agata, Tatsuya Adachi, Shun Kato
  • Publication number: 20240119808
    Abstract: A presentation device is provided in a gaming machine. The presentation device includes: a small roulette wheel, a medium roulette wheel, and a large roulette wheel, having different diameters and rotatably held on the same rotation center line; a motor, rotating each roulette wheel; a communication part, transmitting and receiving a control signal to and from the gaming machine; and a control part, controlling the motor based on the control signal from the gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki SUMI, Eiji YASUDA, Takahiro ONO, Takuya KUDO, Takehiro AGATA
  • Publication number: 20240069280
    Abstract: A photodetector includes a substrate, a material layer, a first electrode made of a metal, a core, a second electrode and a light absorption layer made of graphene. The first electrode, the core, and the material layer constitute a hybrid plasmonic waveguide, and the light absorption layer is disposed thereon. Light guided in the hybrid plasmonic waveguide is absorbed by the light absorption layer, photoelectrically converted by the PTE effect, and extracted as an electric signal from the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Katsumasa Yoshioka, Kengo Nozaki, Akihiko Shinya, Masaya Notomi
  • Patent number: 11661717
    Abstract: Provided are a pile press-in device and a pile press-in method that allow an efficient construction even when electrically powered devices and hydraulic devices coexist in order to give drive members a driving force. A pile press-in device (1) comprises a chuck (5) for gripping and rotating a pile (4) in order to press the pile (4) into a ground while rotating the pile (4). The pile press-in device (1) causes electric motors (6) corresponding to the electrically powered device of the invention to give the chuck (5) a driving force for the rotation. The chuck (5) is moved up and down by lift cylinders (7) which are hydraulically powered hydraulic devices. An integrated control board (50) controls the electric motors (6) and the lift cylinders (7) in an interlocked manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GIKEN LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Katsuhiko Ono, Yoshihiro Morioka, Kengo Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11530520
    Abstract: A pile press-in machine that receives reaction force from an existing pile to press in a new pile, includes: a reaction force block that grips the existing pile by a clamp to receive the reaction force; a platform that is horizontally movable relative to the reaction force block; and a press-in block that is coupled to the platform, supported to be freely lifted up and down with respect to the platform at a front of the clamp, and grips and presses in the new pile, wherein a plurality of kinds of the reaction force blocks each according to a kind and size of the existing pile are freely attachable to and detachable from one platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: GIKEN LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Kitamura, Hiroaki Tanouchi, Masaaki Ono, Toshio Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20220362967
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a concrete pile is shown. The method includes the following, that is, pouring concrete in the pile molding space, reducing the pile molding space to compress and mold the concrete, draining water drained from the concrete by compression and molding outside of the formwork from the drainage hole, and holding the concrete a predetermined amount of time to harden the concrete. The formwork includes an outer formwork that molds an outer wall surface of the concrete pile, an inner formwork that molds an inner wall surface of a hollow space of the concrete pile, and a pair of end formwork that mold upper and lower end surfaces of the concrete pile. The drainage hole is a gap between adjacent components when the mold is tightened, and the gap is configured to be capable of being opened larger during cleaning than when the mold is tightened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: GIKEN LTD.
    Inventors: Akio KITAMURA, Hiroaki TANOUCHI, Shinya NAKAZAWA, Masaaki ONO
  • Patent number: 11300729
    Abstract: An active medium piece (109), which has been taken out using a nanoprobe (108), is processed so as to match the shape of a nanoslot (104), and thus an active medium small piece (111) that is smaller than the active medium piece (109) is formed (a fourth step). For example, irradiation with an ion beam (110) is performed so that the active medium piece (109) is shaped (processed) into an active medium small piece (111) that has a three-dimensional shape suitable for being placed in the nanoslot (104). The active medium piece (109) is processed into the active medium small piece (111) in the state of being held by the nanoprobe (108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Kuramochi, Hisashi Sumikura, Masaaki Ono, Akihiko Shinya, Masaya Notomi
  • Publication number: 20220042269
    Abstract: Provided are a pile press-in device and a pile press-in method that allow an efficient construction even when electrically powered devices and hydraulic devices coexist in order to give drive members a driving force. A pile press-in device (1) comprises a chuck (5) for gripping and rotating a pile (4) in order to press the pile (4) into a ground while rotating the pile (4). The pile press-in device (1) causes electric motors (6) corresponding to the electrically powered device of the invention to give the chuck (5) a driving force for the rotation. The chuck (5) is moved up and down by lift cylinders (7) which are hydraulically powered hydraulic devices. An integrated control board (50) controls the electric motors (6) and the lift cylinders (7) in an interlocked manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: GIKEN LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Katsuhiko Ono, Yoshihiro Morioka, Kengo Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20210215877
    Abstract: An active medium piece (109), which has been taken out using a nanoprobe (108), is processed so as to match the shape of a nanoslot (104), and thus an active medium small piece (111) that is smaller than the active medium piece (109) is formed (a fourth step). For example, irradiation with an ion beam (110) is performed so that the active medium piece (109) is shaped (processed) into an active medium small piece (111) that has a three-dimensional shape suitable for being placed in the nanoslot (104). The active medium piece (109) is processed into the active medium small piece (111) in the state of being held by the nanoprobe (108).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Kuramochi, Hisashi Sumikura, Masaaki Ono, Akihiko Shinya, Masaya Notomi
  • Publication number: 20200087883
    Abstract: A pile press-in machine that receives reaction force from an existing pile to press in a new pile, includes: a reaction force block that grips the existing pile by a clamp to receive the reaction force; a platform that is horizontally movable relative to the reaction force block; and a press-in block that is coupled to the platform, supported to be freely lifted up and down with respect to the platform at a front of the clamp, and grips and presses in the new pile, wherein a plurality of kinds of the reaction force blocks each according to a kind and size of the existing pile are freely attachable to and detachable from one platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Akio Kitamura, Hiroaki Tanouchi, Masaaki Ono, Toshio Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9768872
    Abstract: An optical transceiver that provides a receiver optical module including a plurality photodiodes (PDs) each biased through internal bias lines, signal lines carrying driving signals to an optical transmitter module, and external bias lines each connected to the internal bias lines. One of the internal bias lines connected to one of the external bias lines arranged closest to the signal lines has a length shorter than lengths of the other internal bias lines so as not to affect EMI noises induced from the signal lines to the other internal bias lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinta Kasai, Fumihiro Nakajima, Masaaki Ono
  • Patent number: 9644853
    Abstract: There is provided a packaged engine working machine including, in a lower space of a package an electrical component storage box adapted to be impervious to heat from the engine and intrusion of dust or the like. In a packaged engine working machine in which an engine and a working machine driven by the engine are disposed in a lower space of a package, a storage box for storing a non-heat-generating electrical component included in electrical components for the engine and working machine, and a ventilation duct having a ventilation fan for sucking outside air into the lower space are each disposed in the lower space, and the packaged engine working machine includes an introduction path through which the ventilation duct and the storage box are communicated with each other, and the outside air sucked by the ventilation fan is partially guided into the storage box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono, Keisuke Kawakita
  • Patent number: 9395421
    Abstract: A circuit fault detection device includes: an interruption-signal generation unit that outputs an interruption signal for a drive circuit stopping driving of a drive target on a basis of the interruption signal; a pulse generation unit that includes an adjustment unit adjusting a time during which a pulse signal is in an OFF state and that generates the pulse signal; a signal synthesis unit that outputs a logical AND of the interruption signal and the pulse signal; a filter circuit that inputs, as an output, a signal obtained by delaying an output signal of the signal synthesis unit to the drive circuit; and a monitoring unit that determines whether a circuit fault has occurred on a basis of an output voltage of the filter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Ieda, Shuya Sano, Masaaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20160149643
    Abstract: An optical transceiver that provides a receiver optical module including a plurality photodiodes (PDs) each biased through internal bias lines, signal lines carrying driving signals to an optical transmitter module, and external bias lines each connected to the internal bias lines. One of the internal bias lines connected to one of the external bias lines arranged closest to the signal lines has a length shorter than lengths of the other internal bias lines so as not to affect EMI noises induced from the signal lines to the other internal bias lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Shinta KASAI, Fumihiro NAKAJIMA, Masaaki ONO
  • Publication number: 20150316621
    Abstract: A circuit fault detection device includes: an interruption-signal generation unit that outputs an interruption signal for a drive circuit stopping driving of a drive target on a basis of the interruption signal; a pulse generation unit that includes an adjustment unit adjusting a time during which a pulse signal is in an OFF state and that generates the pulse signal; a signal synthesis unit that outputs a logical AND of the interruption signal and the pulse signal; a filter circuit that inputs, as an output, a signal obtained by delaying an output signal of the signal synthesis unit to the drive circuit; and a monitoring unit that determines whether a circuit fault has occurred on a basis of an output voltage of the filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka IEDA, Shuya SANO, Masaaki ONO
  • Patent number: 9025297
    Abstract: In a surge protection circuit in a three-phase four-wire circuit, a first three-phase three-wire surge module includes terminals respectively coupled to a first phase R, a second phase S, a third phase T, and a fifth phase E. A single-phase two-wire surge module includes terminals respectively coupled to one phase R among the first phase R, the second phase S, and the third phase T, to a fourth phase N, and to the fifth phase E. The second three-phase three-wire surge module includes terminals respectively coupled to the two phases S and T among the first phase R, the second phase S, and the third phase T, to the fourth phase N, and to the fifth phase E. The two phases S and T are not coupled to the single-phase two-wire surge module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinobu Fujisawa, Masaaki Ono, Kenji Ogata, Keisuke Kawakita
  • Patent number: 8963348
    Abstract: A packaged engine working machine is provided. The machine includes an electrical component containing space partitioned into two spaces and a cooling air intake port. An engine disposed in the lower space of a package and electrical components disposed in the upper space, the upper space being partitioned into a high heat generation chamber containing high heat components, a low heat generation chamber containing low heat components, and an intake fan chamber provided with an intake fan for drawing outside air through the intake port. A high heat generation chamber cooling path and a low hear generation chamber cooling part are provided in which outside air reaching the intake fan chamber passes through the chambers via first, second and third communication ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawakita, Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono
  • Patent number: 8728363
    Abstract: A die plate for a die block can have a coat-hanger-shaped flow path for extruding a molten foamable thermoplastic resin in a form of a sheet. The die plate can be on a downstream side of the coat-hanger-shaped flow path to make a flow rate of the molten foamable thermoplastic resin uniform in a width direction. The die plate can have a multiplicity of delivery apertures. The delivery apertures in opposite side regions can have a diameter greater than a diameter which the delivery apertures in a center region have. A die unit can include a die block, which has a multiple bifurcated manifold terminating in plural coat-hanger-shaped flow paths at downward ends thereof, and a like plural number of similar die plates as described above. A process for producing a wide thermoplastic resin foam can use the die unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Fiber Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Itadani, Masaaki Ono
  • Patent number: 8643984
    Abstract: According to the present invention, even in the case of addition of a transformer for using an engine system with an AC power supply different from the expected voltage of an electrical device, there is substantially no change in the thermal balance in a package due to the presence or absence of the transformer. In the present invention, an engine 2 and an electrical device for driving the engine system are housed in a package 1. In order for a transformer 20 whose primary side is an AC power supply and whose secondary side is the expected voltage of the electrical device for driving the engine system to be housed in the package, an intake port, an exhaust port, and a ventilation fan for cooling the transformer are provided in a ventilation path that is independent from other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawakita, Toshinobu Fujisawa, Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20130314872
    Abstract: A packaged engine working machine is provided. The machine includes an electrical component containing space partitioned into two spaces and a cooling air intake port. An engine disposed in the lower space of a package and electrical components disposed in the upper space, the upper space being partitioned into a high heat generation chamber containing high heat components, a low heat generation chamber containing low heat components, and an intake fan chamber provided with an intake fan for drawing outside air through the intake port. A high heat generation chamber cooling path and a low hear generation chamber cooling part are provided in which outside air reaching the intake fan chamber passes through the chambers via first, second and third communication ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawakita, Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono