Patents by Inventor Shingo Tsukada

Shingo Tsukada 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: 11610701
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes: elastic wiring comprising an elastic tube, a conductor wire disposed inside the tube, and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube together at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions; other wiring separate from the elastic wiring; and a connection member that connects the conductor wire of the elastic wiring and a conductor wire of the other wiring by caulking in a state of being brought into contact with each other, the connection member having an interior section sealed in a watertight manner with a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20230059586
    Abstract: This cooling apparatus includes a tube (10) having an opening portion (10a) in one end portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, a cap (30) capable of opening/closing the opening portion (10a), a non-freezing drinkable coolant (20) that fills the tube (10), and a container (50) that contains the tube (10) filled with the coolant (20). The tube has a constricted portion (10d) having a reduced inner diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20220379111
    Abstract: The present biological electrode includes a conductive fabric (2) formed of base fibers which are filled with a conductor and/or to which the conductor is adhered, a thin metallic wire (3) formed into a spiral shape and connected with the conductive fabric (2) at a distal end of the thin metallic wire, and a filling material (5) with which a gap between the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3) is filled and which supports the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3), the conductive fabric (2) is supported in a roll shape, and the conductor is electrically connected with the thin metallic wire (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220355103
    Abstract: The present biological electrode includes a conductive fabric (2) formed of base fibers which are filled with a conductor and/or to which the conductor is adhered, a thin metallic wire (3) formed into a spiral shape and covered with the conductive fabric (2) from a side of a distal end in an axis direction, and a filling material (5) with which a gap between the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3) is filled and which supports the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3), and he conductor is electrically connected with the thin metallic wire (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220346696
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes an electromyography acquiring unit 21 configured to generate electromyography data indicating the time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode set on a predetermined muscle of an exerciser performing a repetitive exercise, and an evaluation unit 25 configured to calculate and output a reproducibility index indicating the reproducibility of the repetitive exercise from the reproducibility of a transition of the electromyography in the repetitive exercise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu SAISHO, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Atsunori MIHARA
  • Publication number: 20220346697
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes an electromyography acquiring unit 21 configured to generate electromyography data 11 indicating the time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode 2 set on each of left and right muscles which are paired of an exerciser performing an exercise in which the left and right muscles are alternately used, and an evaluation unit 23 configured to calculate and output a switching index indicating that left and right muscles are alternately used, from an electromyography of the left muscle and an electromyography of the right muscle acquired at an identical time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu SAISHO, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Atsunori MIHARA
  • Publication number: 20220296935
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a G-tolerance improving device including a valve control unit configured to control an operation of a main system valve configured to control pressure of oxygen to be supplied to a user who is breathing with positive pressure applied to his or her airway, the oxygen from a main supply source configured to supply the oxygen to the user, and an operation of an auxiliary system valve configured to control pressure of an auxiliary gas to be supplied to the user, the auxiliary gas from an auxiliary supply source configured to supply, to the user, the auxiliary gas including highly concentrated oxygen that is oxygen at a higher concentration than the oxygen supplied from the main supply source, in which, when a breathing state of the user changes from an exhalation phase to an inhalation phase, the valve control unit controls an operation of the main system valve and the auxiliary system valve such that the auxiliary gas is supplied to the user for a predetermined time that is
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Patent number: 11449732
    Abstract: A time-series-data feature extraction device includes: a data processing unit that processes a received unevenly spaced time-series-data group into an evenly spaced time-series-data group including omissions and an omission information group indicating presence or absence of omissions, based on a received input time-series data length and a received minimum observation interval; a model learning unit that learns a weight vector of each layer of a model with a difference between an element not missing in a matrix of the evenly spaced time-series-data group including omissions and an element of an output result of an output layer of the model being taken as an error, and stores the weight vector as a model parameter in a storage unit, the difference being; and a feature extraction unit that receives time-series data of a feature extraction target, calculates a value of the intermediate layer of the model with use of the model parameter stored in the storage unit by inputting the received time-series data of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Kurasawa, Katsuyoshi Hayashi, Akinori Fujino, Takayuki Ogasawara, Masumi Yamaguchi, Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20220215669
    Abstract: A position measurement method includes a step of acquiring an image of the surroundings at a self-position, a step of detecting an area in which a circular shape appears in the image, and a step of measuring the self-position based on the aspect ratio of the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20220192601
    Abstract: A flexible device (1) includes an insulating substrate (2), a source electrode (3), a drain electrode (4), and an extended gate electrode (5) formed on a surface of the insulating substrate (2) at intervals, a channel (6) arranged at an interval between the source electrode (3) and the drain electrode (4), and a gate dielectric (7) formed so as to cover all of the channel (6) and a part of the extended gate electrode (5), in which the insulating substrate (2) is a flexible thin film having light transmissivity, the extended gate electrode (5) is a carbon material thin film having biocompatibility and light transmissivity, the channel (6) is an organic semiconductor thin film, and the gate dielectric (7) is an ionic liquid or an ionic gel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toichiro GOTO, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Shingo TSUKADA
  • Patent number: 11350879
    Abstract: A wearable device attached to a subject includes an accelerometer that measures acceleration information, and a biological sensor that measures biological signal information of the subject. From the measured acceleration information and biological signal information, first feature data corresponding to a first predetermined period and second feature data corresponding to a second predetermined period are extracted. By machine learning based on the first feature data, a dynamic/static activity identification model, a dynamic-activity identification model, and a static-activity identification model, for the subject, are generated. By combination of results of determination based on each of the identification models, a posture and an activity of the subject are identified, and correspondence information, which associates the identified posture and activity with the biological signal information of the subject, is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro Horikawa, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Masato Sawada, Akihiro Yamanaka, Shingo Tsukada, Toshiya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220160534
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a consciousness disorder mitigation apparatus, including: a first estimation unit configured to estimate body fluid volume information, the body fluid volume information being information on a body fluid volume present in a head of a user; a second estimation unit configured to estimate oxygen supply volume information, the oxygen supply volume information being information on an oxygen supply volume representing an amount of oxygen in a brain of the user; a pressurization unit configured to be attached to the user and to apply a pressure corresponding to an estimation result of the first estimation unit and an estimation result of the second estimation unit; and an oxygen supply unit configured to supply oxygen to the user based on the estimation result of the second estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Patent number: 11337621
    Abstract: A lactate working threshold-estimating device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information on a gait of a person whose lactate working threshold value is to be estimated from a sensor installed on the person; and an estimating unit configured to estimate the lactate working threshold value of the person on the basis of the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Nahoko Kasai, Hiroshi Nakashima, Hideo Hatta
  • Publication number: 20220022802
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device 10 that stores electromyography data 11 of a predetermined muscle, and a balance indicator processing unit 28 that calculates a root-mean-square value of the electromyography for each predetermined time, repeats a process for each of pieces of electromyography data of each of a plurality of muscles, the process being of outputting, as a balance evaluation value of the predetermined muscle, a value acquired by subjecting, to time differentiation, the time course of an average value of the root-mean-square value in a sliding window for calculating balance evaluation value, and outputs a balance indicator based on a balance evaluation value of each of the plurality of muscles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Publication number: 20220022803
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device 10 that stores electromyography data 11 of a predetermined muscle, an onset detection unit 23 that detects an onset section of the electromyography data 11 in which an electromyography increases by a repetitive exercise performed by an athlete, and an ON/OFF indicator processing unit 25 that calculates a variance a probability distribution acquired by normalizing a root-mean-square value of the electromyography for each onset section, and outputs the calculated variance as an ON/OFF indicator for each onset section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Patent number: 11221673
    Abstract: An analysis device according to the present invention includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to analyze data indicating a biosignal by using a predetermined analysis technique and an updated parameter corresponding to the predetermined analysis technique every time the parameter is updated, control a display to display an analysis result obtained together with an interface capable of changing display modes in response to user's operation, and update the parameter based on change in the display modes for the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Makoto Nakayama, Takashi Okada
  • Publication number: 20210386358
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device 10 that stores electromyography data 11 of a predetermined muscle, a pre-processing unit 22 that calculates a root-mean-square value in the electromyography data 11 for each predetermined time and generates root-mean-square value data including the root-mean-square value for each time, and an onset detection unit 23 that sets a sliding window for onset detection to a predetermined time of the root-mean-square value data and determines that a predetermined time is an onset portion if the average of the root-mean-square values in the sliding window is higher than a threshold value, and the onset detection unit 23 further includes a threshold value determination unit 24 that sets a sliding window for threshold value detection to the predetermined time and determines a threshold value based on the average of the root-mean-square values in the sliding window for threshold value detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Publication number: 20210307699
    Abstract: A wearable device attached to a subject includes an accelerometer that measures acceleration information, and a biological sensor that measures biological signal information of the subject. From the measured acceleration information and biological signal information, first feature data corresponding to a first predetermined period and second feature data corresponding to a second predetermined period are extracted. By machine learning based on the first feature data, a dynamic/static activity identification model, a dynamic-activity identification model, and a static-activity identification model, for the subject, are generated. By combination of results of determination based on each of the identification models, a posture and an activity of the subject are identified and correspondence information, which associates the identified posture and activity with the biological signal information of the subject, is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro HORIKAWA, Yoshitaka NAKAMURA, Masato SAWADA, Akihiro YAMANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Toshiya YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210200312
    Abstract: An analysis device according to the present invention includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to analyze data indicating a biosignal by using a predetermined analysis technique and an updated parameter corresponding to the predetermined analysis technique every time the parameter is updated, control a display to display an analysis result obtained together with an interface capable of changing display modes in response to user's operation, and update the parameter based on change in the display modes for the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu SAISHO, Shingo TSUKADA, Kentaro TANAKA, Makoto NAKAYAMA, Takashi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210177332
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes a plurality of pieces of wiring accommodated and gathered together within an elastic sheath, wherein at least one of the pieces of wiring is elastic wiring including an elastic tube, a conductor wire arranged within the tube, and fixing portions for fixing the conductor wire and the tube at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA