Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hirano
Satoshi Hirano 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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Publication number: 20220062708Abstract: A training system generates a training plan for enabling a trainee to perform a plurality of kinds of training, and includes: a track record information accepting unit that acquires track record information regarding the physical action of the trainee; the target information generation unit that accepts environmental data of daily life of the trainee after the training plan is finished, and generates target information regarding a target of the function recovery of the trainee based on the accepted environmental data; the storage unit that stores statistical information regarding the function recovery in the training performed by a plurality of other trainees; and the plan generation unit that generates the training plan of the trainee based on the track record information, the target information, and the statistical information and outputs the generated training plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Iwata, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Hisataka Yuasa, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
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Publication number: 20220045414Abstract: A waveguide includes a dielectric substrate, a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer formed on a lower surface and an upper surface thereof, a pair of side wall parts forming side walls of both sides of the waveguide, and a feed part feeding an input signal to the waveguide. The feed part includes a feed terminal formed on the lower surface of the dielectric substrate and does not contact the first conductor layer, a first via conductor connected at a lower end thereof to the feed terminal, a first connection pad connected to an upper end of the first via conductor, and second via conductors that are each connected at a lower end thereof to the first connection pad. The sum of the cross-sectional areas of the second via conductors is greater than the sum of the cross-sectional area of the first via conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi HIRANO, Naoko MORI, Ikuro AOKI, Takuya ADACHI
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Publication number: 20220032124Abstract: A training system generates a training plan for enabling a trainee to perform a plurality of kinds of training, and includes a storage unit, a track record information accepting unit, and a plan generation unit. The storage unit stores training information including the content of training, tool information indicating the type of a tool used for the training, and statistical information regarding the function recovery in the training performed by other trainees. The track record information accepting unit accepts track record information regarding the track record of the action of the trainee. The plan generation unit generates a training plan including the content of the training that the trainee conducts, the tool that is used for the training, and an execution period of the training based on the training information, the tool information, and the statistical information and outputs the generated training plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Takuya Iwata, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Hisataka Yuasa, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
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Publication number: 20220036994Abstract: A presentation system includes a storage unit, an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The storage unit is configured to store definition information defining a housing environment according to a physical ability. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire first physical ability information of a trainee who performs training for the purpose of maintaining or recovering the physical ability before the training, and plan information which is a plan of the training. The determination unit is configured to estimate second physical ability information which is the physical ability of the trainee after an end of the plan based on the first physical ability information and the plan information, and determine the housing environment corresponding to the second physical ability information based on the definition information. The output unit is configured to output presentation information including the determined housing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Iwata, Hisataka Yuasa, Masayuki Imaida, Keisuke Suga, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
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Publication number: 20220032123Abstract: A training system generates a training plan for enabling a trainee to perform a plurality of kinds of training, and includes a storage unit, a track record information accepting unit, and a plan generation unit. The storage unit stores training information including the content of training, therapist information indicating the type of a therapist who is in charge of the training and assists the trainee, and statistical information regarding the function recovery in the training performed by a plurality of other trainees. The track record information accepting unit accepts track record information regarding the physical action of the trainee. The plan generation unit generates a training plan including the content of the training, the type of the therapist, and an execution period of the training based on the training information, the therapist information, and the statistical information and outputs the generated training plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisataka Yuasa, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Iwata, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
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Publication number: 20210301404Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminate includes: forming a preprocessing coating on a surface of a substrate having insulating properties by accelerating the powdered material together with gas and spraying the powdered material in a solid phase onto the surface of the substrate, the powdered material including aluminum or an aluminum alloy as a main component; and forming a heat-treated coating having a surface with irregular asperities by heating a preprocessing laminate including the substrate and the preprocessing coating formed on the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Hirano
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Publication number: 20210265736Abstract: A waveguide slot antenna is configured by a waveguide, formed by a dielectric substrate, a first conductive layer formed at a lower surface of the dielectric substrate, a second conductive layer formed at an upper surface of the dielectric substrate and provided with one or a plurality of slots, and a pair of side wall parts electrically connecting the first and second conductive layers and extending in a first direction, being provided with a power feeding part . The one or a plurality of slots include a first slot having a predetermined slot length along the first direction. The waveguide slot antenna has a structure in which, on a plan view from a second direction, the power feeding part overlaps the first slot, and the power feeding part does not deviate from a range of the slot length along the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi HIRANO, Naoko MORI, Ikuro AOKI, Takuya ADACHI
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Patent number: 11052455Abstract: A caulking jig comprises a main body, a blade portion having a blade edge, a projection member fit in the main body, an urging member which urges the projection member, and an engagement mechanism configured to engage the projection member to the main body. In a state in which the projection member is not engaged, the projection member is held at a projected position where a distal end portion of the projection member is projected from the blade edge. In a state in which the projection member is engaged, the projection member is held at an entered position where the distal end portion is retracted to a more entered position than the blade edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Hirano, Arata Tatsumi, Takatoshi Nanbu
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Patent number: 11027363Abstract: An ironing plate is attached to a friction stir welding apparatus in such a manner that the ironing plate surrounds an outer peripheral portion of a rotating tool and does not rotate together with the rotating tool, an inside diameter of a portion of the ironing plate into which the rotating tool is inserted is larger than the diameter of the rotating tool, and a material inflow path through which an excessive material of two metallic plates flows in is formed between the ironing plate and the rotating tool when the ironing plate is disposed to surround the outer peripheral portion of the rotating tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru Onose, Shinichi Kaga, Satoshi Hirano, Akihiro Satou
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Publication number: 20200383607Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a camera system configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which at least a part of a gait of the trainee walking on the treadmill is recognizable, a determination unit configured to determine whether abnormal walking occurs in the trainee based on a plurality of predetermined determination criteria, an image processing unit configured to clip, as a video clip, a video in a predetermined period including a timing when the determination unit determines that the abnormal walking occurs from a video captured by the camera system, and perform image processing to emphasize an abnormal part of the abnormal walking determined by the determination unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the video clip subjected to the image processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Takuma NAKAMURA, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
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Publication number: 20200384342Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a display device installed such that the trainee views the display device while walking on the treadmill, a camera configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which a gait of the trainee is recognizable, a calculation unit configured to calculate a tilt of a body core of the walking trainee based on an image captured by the camera, and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display a body core line associated with the tilt, and an index indicating at least an end of a permissible range of a deflection of the body core line.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Nagisa TANAKA, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
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Publication number: 20200384312Abstract: The walking training system includes: a treadmill; a determination unit configured to determine whether a walking of the trainee on the treadmill is an abnormal walking based on predetermined abnormal walking symptoms; a display unit configured to display a result of a determination of each of the abnormal walking symptoms; a reception unit configured receive a selection of at least one result of the determination from the results of the determinations, each of which displayed on the display unit, in which regarding pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in the result of the determination which the reception unit has received the selection, the display unit preferentially displays the pieces of advice that are common to pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in a result of another determination in which the determination unit determines the abnormal walking.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Takuma NAKAMURA, Taiga MATSUMOTO, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
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Publication number: 20200388187Abstract: The rehabilitation training system includes: an evaluation unit configured to evaluate rehabilitation training performed by a trainee; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of evaluation comments regarding the evaluation; a reception unit configured to receive, from an authorized training assistant, designation of an evaluation comment that is restricted from being presented to a specific trainee among the plurality of evaluation comments; a selection unit configured to select an evaluation comment to be presented to the specific trainee from the plurality of evaluation comments based on the evaluation for the rehabilitation training of the specific trainee that is performed by the evaluation unit and the designation; and a presentation unit configured to present the evaluation comment selected by the selection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
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Publication number: 20200376340Abstract: A rehabilitation training system includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of training objective items, a first monitor installed at a position not visible from a position where a training person undergoes a training attempt and configured to display a training objective item of a first group from among the plurality of training objective items, a second monitor installed at a position visible from the position and configured to display a training objective item of a second group selected through the display on the first monitor from among the training objective items of the first group, and a control unit configured to control the training attempt to be undergone by the training person based on a specific training objective item selected through the display on the second monitor from among the training objective items of the second group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Taiga MATSUMOTO, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
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Publication number: 20200318966Abstract: There is provided a surveying instrument including a monopod which is installed on a reference point, a surveying instrument main body which is provided at a known distance from a lower end of the monopod and a known angle with respect to an axis of the monopod, two auxiliary legs which extend downward from an middle portion of the monopod at a predetermined angle, and a lower image pickup module which is provided at a known position with respect to the surveying instrument main body, wherein the surveying instrument main body comprises a measuring unit, a measuring direction image pickup module, and an arithmetic control module, wherein the surveying instrument main body is supported by three points by the monopod and the auxiliary legs, and a positional change or a rotational change of the surveying instrument main body is calculating based on a change of the lower image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Satoshi Hirano, Kaoru Kumagai, Fumio Ohtomo, Kazuki Osaragi, Nobuyuki Nishita, Tetsuji Anai, Noriyasu Kiryuu
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Publication number: 20200318963Abstract: There is provided a surveying instrument including a monopod which is installed on a reference point, a surveying instrument main body which is provided at a known distance from a lower end of the monopod and a known angle with respect to an axis of the monopod, two auxiliary legs which extend downward from an middle portion of the monopod at a predetermined angle, wherein the surveying instrument main body comprises a distance measuring unit configured to measure a distance to an object to be measured, a measuring direction image pickup module configured to acquire an observation image including the object to be measured, an attitude detector configured to detect the tilts of the surveying instrument main body with respect to the horizontality, and an arithmetic control module, and wherein the surveying instrument main body is supported by three points by the monopod and the auxiliary legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Satoshi Hirano, Kaoru Kumagai, Fumio Ohtomo, Kazuki Osaragi, Nobuyuki Nishita, Tetsuji Anai, Noriyasu Kiryuu
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Patent number: 10675503Abstract: A walking training apparatus including a treadmill having an infinite orbital rotation type walking surface, the walking training apparatus including: a holding part that a walking trainee holds, in which the holding part is capable of supporting a load applied to the walking surface by the walking trainee and is movable in a direction including a component parallel to the walking surface, is provided. By providing a pseudo stick with the aforementioned structure, the trainee is able to perform training of the upper part of the body that uses the stick in parallel to training of the leg part that uses the treadmill.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Issei Nakashima, Tomio Ikeda, Eiichi Saitoh, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Hiroki Tanikawa, Akihito Uno
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Patent number: 10596657Abstract: A friction stir welding apparatus includes a FSW tool that is held by a housing and welds to-be-welded members to each other by friction stir, and a gradual cooling device that gradually cools a weld site of the to-be-welded members welded by the FSW tool. The gradual cooling device is a contactless heat source that heats the weld site without coming into contact with the weld site. The contactless heat source is a high-frequency heat source.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomio Odakura, Akihiro Satou, Satoshi Hirano, Ittou Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200045779Abstract: A small diameter sheath heater with improved reliability is provided. The sheath heater according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a metal sheath, a heating wire having a band shape, the heating wire arranged with a gap within the metal sheath so as to rotate with respect to an axis direction of the metal sheath, an insulating material arranged in the gap, and connection terminals arranged at one end of the metal sheath, the connection terminals electrically connected with both ends of the heating wire respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Toshihiko HANAMACHI, Kenji SEKIYA, Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Satoshi HIRANO, Masaru TAKIMOTO, Go TAKAHARA, Yoshihito ARAKI, Arata TATSUMI, Takashi KAWASAKI, Yuki TOYAMA, Satoshi ANZAI
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Patent number: 10462850Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ceramic sintered body, includes: a film forming step of forming, on a surface of a heat-resistant metal material, a metal coating film made of a metal material having a standard free energy of formation of metal carbides lower than that of the heat-resistant metal material; a molding step of disposing the heat-resistant metal material provided with the coating film in the film forming step at a predetermined position in powder that serves as a starting material of a ceramic base, and molding a ceramic green body by press-molding the powder; and a sintering step of generating a ceramic sintered body by sintering the ceramic green body molded in the molding step.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Hirano, Toshihiro Tachikawa, Junichi Miyahara, Toshihiko Hanamachi