Patents by Inventor Motohiro Sugiyama

Motohiro Sugiyama 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: 6481521
    Abstract: An under-cart type guided tractor comprising a frame provided with a driving unit including driving wheels on the underside thereof, the guided tractor being adapted to travel guided by a guide signal sent out from a guide element, such as a magnetic tape laid along a traveling path on a floor surface, and to draw a cart provided with free wheels and loaded with goods, with the guided tractor located under a load-carrying platform of the cart. The frame of the guided tractor has a height that allows the guided tractor to move under the frame of the cart, and a structure that does not allow the vertical load of the cart to act on the guided tractor. The frame of the guided tractor comprises at least two separate frame components that are arranged in line with the travelling direction of the guided tractor and joined by a pin in a manner such that the frame components are allowed to take an upward or downward bent formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Yazaki Industrial Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Sugiyama, Kazunori Ooishi
  • Publication number: 20020074172
    Abstract: An under-cart type guided tractor comprising a frame provided with a driving unit including driving wheels on the underside thereof, the guided tractor being adapted to travel guided by a guide signal sent out from a guide element, such as a magnetic tape laid along a traveling path on a floor surface, and to draw a cart provided with free wheels and loaded with goods, with the guided tractor located under a load-carrying platform of the cart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Motohiro Sugiyama, Kazunori Ooishi
  • Patent number: 6127618
    Abstract: A microphone signal is branched into a microphone sound effect generation signal path and a direct sound signal path via a microphone volume controller. The microphone signal branched to the microphone sound effect generation signal path is level-adjusted by a microphone sound effect volume controller, and then supplied to a microphone sound effect generating circuit, so that a microphone sound effect signal is generated. The microphone sound effect signal and a music signal supplied from a music signal input terminal are additively combined together by combining circuits and are output from a music signal output terminal. The microphone sound branched to the direct sound signal path is output from a microphone signal output terminal, independently of the microphone sound effect signal, improving the separation between the microphone sound signal and a microphone sound effect signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Motohiro Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 5672947
    Abstract: The automatic guide method for vehicles relates to an automatic guide method for the operation of unmanned vehicles which, guided along guide paths preset on the floor in factories and warehouses, etc., carry and handle various loads in a fully automated fashion, and more particularly to an automatic guide method which has a course-search function and function to prevent straying such that a vehicle which is positioned at the start of an operation with its magnetic sensor off the guide path within certain limits or which strays off course abruptly for some reason during ordinary operation, is restored to the guide path by searching and finding the magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Yazaki Industrial Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Hisada, Hiromi Otake, Tadashi Ike, Motohiro Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 5525884
    Abstract: A magnetically guided unmanned vehicle system to carry various loads along a guide path of a closed loop which comprises guide path consists of magnetic tape, a magnetic guide type steering drive unit having a magnetic sensor to detect magnetism from said tape and a drive wheel, said steering drive unit having a driving means to drive said drive wheel and a steering means controlled automatically by signals detected by said magnetic sensor, a trolley which has wheels at each of the four corners of the lower surface of a chassis thereof, the front said wheels having a universal casters, and a carriage shelf assembly which has one or a plurality of horizontal automatic roller conveyer(s) as shelves. The magnetically guided vehicle can be constructed by combining the trolley, the steering drive unit and the carriage shelf assembly and the trolley can be used for its original purposes by disassembling such parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Yazaki Industrial Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Sugiura, Yukio Hisada, Tadashi Ike, Motohiro Sugiyama