Patents by Inventor Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida 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: 12142925Abstract: A power transmission device that transmits electric power from a PCU to drive modules includes: a power-source-side positive terminal and a power-source-side negative terminal that are connected to the PCU and receive DC power; and load-side positive terminals and load-side negative terminals each connected to corresponding one of the drive modules and output DC power. The load-side positive terminals and the load-side negative terminals are arranged in a line in the order of the load-side positive terminal, the load-side negative terminal, the load-side negative terminal, and the load-side positive terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 12132349Abstract: A power supply circuit of an aircraft includes: a first power transmission path for transmitting electric power from each of a first main power source device and a second main power source device to a first load device and a second load device; a first current sensor; a second current sensor; a third current sensor; and a fourth current sensor, and determines whether an abnormality has occurred based on currents detected by the first current sensor, the second current sensor, the third current sensor and the fourth current sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Sadao Shinohara, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 12081019Abstract: An abnormality determining section disconnects both a positive wire and a negative wire between a load module and a second ground circuit, connects one of a positive wire or a negative wire between a main power source apparatus and the second ground circuit, and determines whether there is an abnormality in a second main power source circuit based on an amount of power supplied to the second ground circuit in a state where one of the positive wire or the negative wire of the second main power source circuit is connected to a reference potential by the second ground circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 12071251Abstract: A power supply circuit of an aircraft includes: a first contactor that is provided on a first power transmission path for transmitting electric power from a first power source to a load and switches between a conduction state and an interruption state between the first power source and the load; and a second contactor that is provided on a second power transmission path for transmitting electric power from a second power source to the load and switches between the conduction state and the interruption state between the second power source and the load. The first contactor includes a first fixed contact and a first movable contact, and the second contactor includes a second fixed contact and a second movable contact. The moving direction of the first movable contact intersects with the moving direction of the second movable contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Sadao Shinohara, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 12054269Abstract: In a power supply system of an aircraft, when electric power is supplied from a power generation unit to a drive unit, the electric power is supplied from the power generation unit to the drive unit via a first power transmission path, and a voltage is applied to a second power transmission path by a fault detection circuit in a state in which the power generation unit and the drive unit are disconnected from the second power transmission path, and when the power generation unit is started, electric power of the fault detection circuit is supplied to the power generation unit in a state in which the power generation unit is connected to the second power transmission path.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20240248469Abstract: An information processing device for controlling a plurality of terminals, the information processing device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a target terminal that is a terminal existing in a predetermined area among a plurality of terminals, information regarding a cycle of data processing executed in each target terminal; a determination unit that determines a cycle of data transmission shared by each target terminal based on the information regarding the cycle of data processing of each target terminal acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that controls an execution timing of data processing in each target terminal based on the cycle of data transmission determined by the determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA, Kanade KURIYAMA
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Patent number: 12023808Abstract: A robot system includes two arms, each having a hand at an end thereof, and a controller to control operation of the arms. The hand has an openable and closable holder. The controller includes hand-number determining circuitry to determine the number of hands used to hold a holdable object based on the size of the holdable object, and hold controlling circuitry to control the holder of one of the hands to open so as to hold the holdable object by an inner surface of the holder, when the number of hands to be used is one, and control the holders of the two hands to close so as to hold the holdable object by outer surfaces of the two holders, when the number of hands to be used is two.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Azuma, Takayuki Ishizaki, Mitsunobu Oka, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 11995432Abstract: A control method for a display device includes, in a state in which first firmware is installed, acquiring version information of second firmware installed in another display device from the other display device, inquiring the other display device about propriety of update of the second firmware to the first firmware when a version of the second firmware is older than a version of the first firmware, receiving the second firmware from the other display device when a notification for denying the update of the second firmware is received from the other display device, and updating the first firmware installed in the display device to the second firmware.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiki Fujimori, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 11958187Abstract: A robot includes a base attached to an end of a robotic arm, a conveyor fixed to the base, and a holder to hold a workpiece and place the workpiece on a transferring surface of the conveyor. The holder includes a pivot shaft extending along the conveyor in a transferring direction of the conveyor, and reciprocatable or telescopic in the transferring direction, a pivoting structure attached to the pivot shaft so as to be reciprocatable in the transferring direction, and pivotable centering on the pivot shaft in a plane in which a width direction perpendicular to the transferring direction intersects with a height direction perpendicular to the transferring direction and the width direction, and a holding structure upstream of the pivoting part in the transferring direction to hold the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Azuma, Takayuki Ishizaki, Mitsunobu Oka, Masataka Yoshida
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Patent number: 11961134Abstract: In the proposal system, sales performance information that is related to a device is acquired and information that is related to a usage situation of a device is accepted from a customer. A device to be a purchase target is inferred by a learned model based on the information that is related to the usage situation of the device and the sales performance information, and then a proposal information is outputted as a result of that inference.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masataka Yoshida, Misato Furuya
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Patent number: 11845621Abstract: A robot is provided, which includes a base, a first robot fixed to the base at a base end thereof, and a second robot fixed to the base at a base end thereof. The first robot has a first robotic arm and a first robot hand attached to a tip end of the first robotic arm. The second robot has a second robotic arm and a second robot hand attached to a tip end of the second robotic arm. The first robot hand includes a conveyor, and the second robot hand includes a holding part configured to hold a workpiece. The second robot places the workpiece held by the holding part on a transferring surface of the conveyor of the first robot and releases the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Azuma, Takayuki Ishizaki, Mitsunobu Oka, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230388464Abstract: A control method includes displaying a display image including an adjustment image constituted by a plurality of control points, displaying a first enlarged image including a first enlarged adjustment image obtained by enlarging a part of the adjustment image, and receiving an operation input configured to select the control point using a pointing image configured to point any of the plurality of control points.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Masataka YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230327432Abstract: An abnormality determining section disconnects both a positive wire and a negative wire between a load module and a second ground circuit, connects one of a positive wire or a negative wire between a main power source apparatus and the second ground circuit, and determines whether there is an abnormality in a second main power source circuit based on an amount of power supplied to the second ground circuit in a state where one of the positive wire or the negative wire of the second main power source circuit is connected to a reference potential by the second ground circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230318337Abstract: A power supply system includes: a main power source device for supplying electric power to a load device; an auxiliary power source device for supplying electric power to the load device; current sensors for detecting current flowing through a main power source circuit; a current sensor for detecting current flowing through an auxiliary power source circuit; and a load current sensor for detecting current flowing through a load circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230318303Abstract: A power transmission device that transmits electric power from a PCU to drive modules includes: a power-source-side positive terminal and a power-source-side negative terminal that are connected to the PCU and receive DC power; and load-side positive terminals and load-side negative terminals each connected to corresponding one of the drive modules and output DC power. The load-side positive terminals and the load-side negative terminals are arranged in a line in the order of the load-side positive terminal, the load-side negative terminal, the load-side negative terminal, and the load-side positive terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230271711Abstract: In a power supply system of an aircraft, when electric power is supplied from a power generation unit to a drive unit, the electric power is supplied from the power generation unit to the drive unit via a first power transmission path, and a voltage is applied to a second power transmission path by a fault detection circuit in a state in which the power generation unit and the drive unit are disconnected from the second power transmission path, and when the power generation unit is started, electric power of the fault detection circuit is supplied to the power generation unit in a state in which the power generation unit is connected to the second power transmission path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230271518Abstract: A power supply circuit of an aircraft includes: a first power transmission path and a second power transmission path each configured to supply electric power from power generation units to one or more drive modules; and a third power transmission path configured to supply electric power from a charging device to the first power transmission path. When one or more batteries are charged with the electric power supplied from the charging device, the electric power is supplied from the charging device to the batteries via the first power transmission path, and the electric power is supplied from the charging device to the batteries via the second power transmission path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Sadao Shinohara, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230257129Abstract: A power supply circuit of an aircraft includes: a first contactor that is provided on a first power transmission path for transmitting electric power from a first power source to a load and switches between a conduction state and an interruption state between the first power source and the load; and a second contactor that is provided on a second power transmission path for transmitting electric power from a second power source to the load and switches between the conduction state and the interruption state between the second power source and the load. The first contactor includes a first fixed contact and a first movable contact, and the second contactor includes a second fixed contact and a second movable contact. The moving direction of the first movable contact intersects with the moving direction of the second movable contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Sadao Shinohara, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230253820Abstract: A power supply circuit of an aircraft includes: a first power transmission path for transmitting electric power from each of a first main power source device and a second main power source device to a first load device and a second load device; a first current sensor; a second current sensor; a third current sensor; and a fourth current sensor, and determines whether an abnormality has occurred based on currents detected by the first current sensor, the second current sensor, the third current sensor and the fourth current sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Sadao Shinohara, Masataka Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230223637Abstract: A battery frame includes a pair of flat spring plates, a pair of pressing plates, and connecting members connecting the pair of flat spring plates. Each of the flat spring plates includes first regions and a second region. The second region is located inward of the first regions in the stacking direction of a battery cell stack. The connecting members are attached to the flat spring plates via the first regions, and the pressing plates are attached to the flat spring plates via the second regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Yuya Ishihara, Kenta Kishii, Hiromitsu Sato, Tadahiro Fukushima, Masataka Yoshida, Seiji Kosaka