Patents by Inventor Masanobu Yamazoe

Masanobu Yamazoe 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: 7640139
    Abstract: Provided are an envelope processor 103, for obtaining an envelope for a detected signal; a FFT unit 104, for converting the envelope into a frequency spectrum; a peak detector 105, for smoothing the frequency spectrum by calculating a moving average, for further performing smoothing and differentiation for the spectrum, and detecting, as peaks, frequency points at which a sign of a differential coefficient is changed from positive to negative, for extracting peaks having a predetermined threshold value or greater, and for sorting the extracted peaks and detecting upper peaks; and a diagnosis processor T, for diagnosing an abnormality based on the detected peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Juntaro Sahara, Yasushi Mutoh, Takanori Miyasaka, Masanobu Yamazoe
  • Publication number: 20080033695
    Abstract: Provided are an envelope processor 103, for obtaining an envelope for a detected signal; a FFT unit 104, for converting the envelope into a frequency spectrum; a peak detector 105, for smoothing the frequency spectrum by calculating a moving average, for further performing smoothing and differentiation for the spectrum, and detecting, as peaks, frequency points at which a sign of a differential coefficient is changed from positive to negative, for extracting peaks having a predetermined threshold value or greater, and for sorting the extracted peaks and detecting upper peaks; and a diagnosis processor T, for diagnosing an abnormality based on the detected peaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: NSK LTD
    Inventors: Juntaro Sahara, Yasushi Mutoh, Takanori Miyasaka, Masanobu Yamazoe