Patents by Inventor Ryotaro Takahashi

Ryotaro Takahashi 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: 20240309493
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a can lid for food or drink, the can lid including an end and a tab for opening a score formed on the end. The end and/or the tab includes an aluminum alloy containing: Mn: 0.5 mass % to 1.4 mass %, Mg: 2.0 mass % to 4.5 mass %, Si: 0.6 mass % or less, Fe: 0.8 mass % or less, Cu: 0.25 mass % or less, Cr: 0.10 mass % or less, Zn: 0.25 mass % or less, and Ti: 0.10 mass % or less. With this configuration, even if the end and/or the tab contains a recycled aluminum alloy made up of aluminum UBCs as a raw material, a can lid having such an end and/or tab that has properties required for a can lid, such as pressure resisting strength, can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji NAKANO, Shigeya Takahashi, Hideki Nishimoto, Ryotaro Isomura, Takahiro Oki
  • Patent number: 12094746
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a stage including a shaft provided to a surface opposite a mounting surface on which a substrate is mounted, and configured to be rotated by a driving force of a motor using the shaft as a rotation axis; a storage part storing a correction information on a rotational angle of the stage for each number of rotations in a plurality of rotations of the stage, the plurality of rotations corresponding to a cycle; and a rotation control part configured to control the motor based on the correction information and control the rotation of the stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Takehiro Shindo
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    Patent number: 12065718
    Abstract: A bar includes a titanium alloy containing an ? phase and a ? phase, in which the titanium alloy contains, as a chemical composition, by mass %: Al: 4.5% to 6.4%; Fe: 0.5% to 2.1%; C: 0.01% or less; N: 0.05% or less; O: 0.25% or less; V: 0.10% or less; Si: 0% to 0.40%; Ni: 0% to 0.15%; Cr: 0% to 0.25%; Mn: 0% to 0.25%; and a remainder including Ti and impurities, an area ratio of the ? phase in a metallographic structure of the titanium alloy is 20% or less, and an average minor axis length of grains of the ? phase is 2.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Miyoshi, Tomonori Kunieda, Kazuhiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240212183
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for processing three-dimensional (3D) information is disclosed. The apparatus obtains 3D shape data representing a shape of a 3D object and data of an image of a field of view including the 3D object. The apparatus generates a depth map corresponding to the field of view based on the 3D shape data and increases a resolution of an area of the depth map corresponding to an area of interest set for the image. The apparatus generates 3D shape data based on the depth map with a resolution of an area corresponding to the area of interest increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11729503
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to function as, a first detection unit configured to detect a position of a gazing point in an image based on a line-of-sight of a user, a first setting unit configured to set an object detection range based on the position of the gazing point and an image capturing condition, a second detection unit configured to detect a feature area from the image, and a second setting unit configured to set a focus detection area based on a position of the feature area included in the object detection range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Hirose, Kuniaki Sugitani, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Satoshi Kimoto, Ryotaro Takahashi, Takayuki Akaguma, Kengo Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11595562
    Abstract: An autofocus (AF) frame integration unit generates at least two groups, each group including at least one focus detection area based on a comparison between a plurality of focus detection results, the plurality of focus detection results to be obtained corresponding to a specific time. A movement determination unit determines whether an object corresponding to a first group and a second group is moving, based on a focus detection result corresponding to the first group, generated based on a focus detection result corresponding to a first time, and a focus detection result corresponding to the second group, generated based on a focus detection result corresponding to a second time later than the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryotaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11437881
    Abstract: A motor includes a sheet-metal cover accommodating a stator and a substrate and a wiring assembly electrically connected to the substrate. The cover includes a wiring lead port, which is open to a wall of the cover and communicates with an outside and an inside of the cover. The wiring assembly includes cables connected to the substrate and extending from the inside of the cover to the outside through the wiring lead port, a sleeve with a tubular shape into which the cables are inserted, the sleeve having an elastic modulus smaller than an elastic modulus of a coated portion of the cable, and a binder that bundles the cables through the sleeve. The sleeve is opposed to the wiring lead port from the inside of the cover, and an outer diameter of the sleeve is larger than an inner diameter of the wiring lead port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11245310
    Abstract: A motor includes binding pins around which a coil lead wire is wound, and an end on one side in an axial direction of the binding pin and the coil lead wire are fixed to a surface facing one side in the axial direction of a substrate. An insulator assembly includes a substrate receiver contacting with the substrate from the other side in the axial direction. A heat sink is fixed to a cover, and an end on the other side in the axial direction of the heat sink presses down the integrated circuit mounted on the substrate toward the other side in the axial direction. The heat sink and the substrate receiver are disposed at positions where the heat sink and the substrate receiver overlap each other as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11171546
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover including a first cup body and a second cup body, each including a bottomed tubular shape. The first cup body and the second cup body are disposed with openings of the peripheral wall portions facing each other. The second cup body includes a bottom wall portion provided with stud bolts projecting from the bottom wall portion to one axial direction and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. An end surface of a heat sink, facing the one axial direction, is in contact with a portion positioned between the stud bolts adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in a surface of the bottom wall portion of the second cup body in the other axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11128195
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover with first and second cup bodies. A flange portion of each of the first and second cup bodies includes first recesses recessed radially inward from an outer peripheral edge of the flange portion and evenly spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the flange portion, second recesses recessed radially inward from the outer peripheral edge of the flange portion, have a same circumferential width as that of the first recess, and are evenly spaced apart in the circumferential direction, a total number of the second recesses is the same as a total number of first recesses, and claw portions extending radially outward from a bottom surface of the corresponding second recess and have a circumferential width narrower than that of the second recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20210203856
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to function as, a first detection unit configured to detect a position of a gazing point in an image based on a line-of-sight of a user, a first setting unit configured to set an object detection range based on the position of the gazing point and an image capturing condition, a second detection unit configured to detect a feature area from the image, and a second setting unit configured to set a focus detection area based on a position of the feature area included in the object detection range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru Hirose, Kuniaki Sugitani, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Satoshi Kimoto, Ryotaro Takahashi, Takayuki Akaguma, Kengo Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20210167669
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover including a first cup body and a second cup body, each including a bottomed tubular shape. The first cup body and the second cup body are disposed with openings of the peripheral wall portions facing each other. The second cup body includes a bottom wall portion provided with stud bolts projecting from the bottom wall portion to one axial direction and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. An end surface of a heat sink, facing the one axial direction, is in contact with a portion positioned between the stud bolts adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in a surface of the bottom wall portion of the second cup body in the other axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210091627
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover with first and second cup bodies. A flange portion of each of the first and second cup bodies includes first recesses recessed radially inward from an outer peripheral edge of the flange portion and evenly spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the flange portion, second recesses recessed radially inward from the outer peripheral edge of the flange portion, have a same circumferential width as that of the first recess, and are evenly spaced apart in the circumferential direction, a total number of the second recesses is the same as a total number of first recesses, and claw portions extending radially outward from a bottom surface of the corresponding second recess and have a circumferential width narrower than that of the second recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200350801
    Abstract: A motor includes a sheet-metal cover accommodating a stator and a substrate and a wiring assembly electrically connected to the substrate. The cover includes a wiring lead port, which is open to a wall of the cover and communicates with an outside and an inside of the cover. The wiring assembly includes cables connected to the substrate and extending from the inside of the cover to the outside through the wiring lead port, a sleeve with a tubular shape into which the cables are inserted, the sleeve having an elastic modulus smaller than an elastic modulus of a coated portion of the cable, and a binder that bundles the cables through the sleeve. The sleeve is opposed to the wiring lead port from the inside of the cover, and an outer diameter of the sleeve is larger than an inner diameter of the wiring lead port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200329191
    Abstract: An autofocus (AF) frame integration unit generates at least two groups, each group including at least one focus detection area based on a comparison between a plurality of focus detection results, the plurality of focus detection results to be obtained corresponding to a specific time. A movement determination unit determines whether an object corresponding to a first group and a second group is moving, based on a focus detection result corresponding to the first group, generated based on a focus detection result corresponding to a first time, and a focus detection result corresponding to the second group, generated based on a focus detection result corresponding to a second time later than the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Ryotaro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200251368
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a stage including a shaft provided to a surface opposite a mounting surface on which a substrate is mounted, and configured to be rotated by a driving force of a motor using the shaft as a rotation axis; a storage part storing a correction information on a rotational angle of the stage for each number of rotations in a plurality of rotations of the stage, the plurality of rotations corresponding to a cycle; and a rotation control part configured to control the motor based on the correction information and control the rotation of the stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Takehiro SHINDO
  • Publication number: 20200195099
    Abstract: A motor includes binding pins around which a coil lead wire is wound, and an end on one side in an axial direction of the binding pin and the coil lead wire are fixed to a surface facing one side in the axial direction of a substrate. An insulator assembly includes a substrate receiver contacting with the substrate from the other side in the axial direction. A heat sink is fixed to a cover, and an end on the other side in the axial direction of the heat sink presses down the integrated circuit mounted on the substrate toward the other side in the axial direction. The heat sink and the substrate receiver are disposed at positions where the heat sink and the substrate receiver overlap each other as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200161930
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover including a first cup body and a second cup body, each with a bottomed tubular shape. At least the second cup body of the first cup body and the second cup body is made of sheet metal. The second cup body includes a bottom wall portion with a surface facing the other axial direction and including a flat surface in a ring shape perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a central axis, disposed at a radial position radially outward from a bearing holding portion, and a connection surface disposed between the bearing holding portion and the flat surface to connect the bearing holding portion and the flat surface. A heat sink includes a first end portion in the other axial direction, in thermal contact with an integrated circuit, and a second end portion in the one axial direction, being disposed at a radial position radially outward from the first end portion, in contact with the flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Patent number: 10616469
    Abstract: In an image capturing apparatus, an image sensor outputs an image converted from light entering through a diaphragm, an acquisition unit acquires an aperture state of the diaphragm, a generator generates a first indicator indicating a focus state of the image, a controller superimposes the image and an indicator indicating a focus state of the image, and displays a resultant image on a display device, a memory stores the indicator displayed on the display device as a second indicator, and a selector selects the first indicator in a case where the aperture state at least at a time of exposure of the image or of generating the first indicator by the generator is changing, and selects the second indicator in a case where the aperture state at these times is not changing. The controller displays the selected indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Junichi Imamiya
  • Publication number: 20200007782
    Abstract: In an image capturing apparatus, an image sensor outputs an image converted from light entering through a diaphragm, an acquisition unit acquires an aperture state of the diaphragm, a generator generates a first indicator indicating a focus state of the image, a controller superimposes the image and an indicator indicating a focus state of the image, and displays a resultant image on a display device, a memory stores the indicator displayed on the display device as a second indicator, and a selector selects the first indicator in a case where the aperture state at least at a time of exposure of the image or of generating the first indicator by the generator is changing, and selects the second indicator in a case where the aperture state at these times is not changing. The controller displays the selected indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Junichi Imamiya