Patents by Inventor Rikuo Sakaguchi

Rikuo Sakaguchi 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: 5000279
    Abstract: An unmanned vehicle guide system has guide routes made of a magnetic material and an unmanned vehicle guided to travel on the guide route. The unmanned vehicle has an exciting coil for emitting a magnetic field, a pair of detection coils, arranged in a direction perpendicular to the travel direction of the unmanned vehicle, for detecting a magnetic field change, a comparator for measuring an output-difference between the detection coils, and a steering device for steering the unmanned vehicle such that the output-difference becomes a predetermined value. At an intersection where a plurality of guide routes intersect and in the vicinity thereof, at least one guide route lacks a magnetic material. Alternatively, an extra marker is added to each of the guide routes that intersect at the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yojiro Kondo, Fumio Yamauchi, Rikuo Sakaguchi