Patents by Inventor Shinichi Fukuda

Shinichi Fukuda 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: 11664682
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power fed from a feed unit by using a magnetic field; and a control section configured to perform, when a receiving current supplied from the power receiving section is less than a predetermined threshold current at a time of a light load, current increasing control to increase the receiving current to the threshold current or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Toru Terashima, Keigo Bunsen, Shinichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11590617
    Abstract: According to the present invention, the operating rate of a machine tool can be increased. Solution is made by a machine tool including a processing chamber surrounded by cover walls to perform processing of a workpiece to be processed, an equerre a part of which is arranged inside the processing chamber, the equerre fixing the workpiece, an opening arranged at a part of the cover walls for access to an inside of the processing chamber, and shutter doors movable between open positions where opening of the opening is performed so that the inside of the processing chamber communicates with an outside of the processing chamber, and closed positions where closing of the opening is performed so that the inside of the processing chamber is isolated from the outside of the processing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KIWA MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20220158614
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including a first side defining a portion of an outer circumference, and a second side shorter than the first side, IDT electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate, a support including a cavity and on the piezoelectric substrate to surround the IDT electrodes with the cavity, first and second partitioning supports on the piezoelectric substrate and disposed in an inner side of the cavity of the support, and a cover on the support and covering the cavity of the support. An extending direction of the first partitioning support is parallel or substantially parallel to an extending direction of the first side of the piezoelectric substrate. An extending direction of the second partitioning support is orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the extending direction of the first partitioning support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki TEZUKA, Toru TAKESHITA, Shinichi FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11303161
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a detecting device including a coil electromagnetically coupled to the external, a resonant circuit that includes at least the coil, and a detecting section that superimposes a measurement signal for measuring the Q-factor of the resonant circuit on a power transmission signal transmitted to the coil in a contactless manner and removes the power transmission signal from an alternating-current signal obtained by superimposing the measurement signal on the power transmission signal. The detecting section measures the Q-factor by using the alternating-current signal from which the power transmission signal is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Bunsen, Hiroaki Nakano, Tomomichi Murakami, Shinichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11271428
    Abstract: An energy receiver including a power receiver coil configured to wirelessly receive power transmitted from a power transmitter; a detection section configured to detect a foreign object; and a power storage section configured to supply power to the detection section during detection of the foreign object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Shinichi Fukuda, Yuji Murayama, Kenichi Fujimaki, Tomomichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20210384773
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power fed from a feed unit by using a magnetic field; and a control section configured to perform, when a receiving current supplied from the power receiving section is less than a predetermined threshold current at a time of a light load, current increasing control to increase the receiving current to the threshold current or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Toru Terashima, Keigo Bunsen, Shinichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210348164
    Abstract: Provided are method for treating age-related macular degeneration (AGE), and/or preventing the occurrence or progression thereof in a subject in need thereof. In some embodiments, the methods include administering to the subject in need thereof a composition that has an effective amount of an inhibitor of reverse transcriptase (RTase) activity. Also provided are methods for protecting retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells, retinal photoreceptor cells, and/or choroidal cells; methods for treating geographic atrophy of the eye, and/or for preventing occurrence or progression thereof; and pharmaceutical compositions for treating AGE and/or GA and/or for preventing the occurrence or progression thereof; and/or for protecting RPE cells, retinal photoreceptor cells, and/or choroidal cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicants: University of Virginia Patent Foundation, University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jayakrishna Ambati, Bradley David Unti Gelfand, Nagaraj Kerur, Shinichi Fukuda, Kameshwari Ambati, Benjamin Fowler
  • Patent number: 11128177
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power fed from a feed unit by using a magnetic field; and a control section configured to perform, when a receiving current supplied from the power receiving section is less than a predetermined threshold current at a time of a light load, current increasing control to increase the receiving current to the threshold current or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Toru Terashima, Keigo Bunsen, Shinichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210152258
    Abstract: To suppress occurrence of communication not intended by the user while improving ease of introduction regarding an electrode device. An electrode device including a conductive plate, a first electrode plate provided in parallel with the conductive plate and spaced apart from the conductive plate in the thickness direction of the conductive plate, and a second electrode plate provided in parallel with the conductive plate, at a location not overlapping with the first electrode plate in the planar direction of the conductive plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: MASAHIRO UNO, MASAYUKI TANAKA, SHINICHI FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11011930
    Abstract: An energy receiver including a power receiver coil configured to wirelessly receive power transmitted from a power transmitter; a detection section configured to detect a foreign object; and a power storage section configured to supply power to the detection section during detection of the foreign object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Shinichi Fukuda, Yuji Murayama, Kenichi Fujimaki, Tomomichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10917181
    Abstract: A communication apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an antenna unit including a first electrode and a second electrode; a communication circuit unit that performs communication using a human body as a communication medium via the antenna unit; and a series circuit including a switch and a capacitor that are coupled to each other in series, and coupled between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuda, Osamu Kozakai
  • Patent number: 10833776
    Abstract: A communication system of the disclosure includes: a transmitter that includes a first transmitting electrode and a second transmitting electrode, and causes a transmission signal to be generated between the first transmitting electrode and the second transmitting electrode; and a receiver including a first receiving electrode, a second receiving electrode, and a determiner, in which the first receiving electrode and the second receiving electrode each receive the transmission signal through a communication path that includes a human body, and the determiner determines that communication is valid in a case where a reception signal, generated between the first receiving electrode and the second receiving electrode, has a prescribed polarity, and determines that the communication is invalid in a case where the reception signal has a polarity different from the prescribed polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuda, Osamu Kozakai
  • Publication number: 20200343769
    Abstract: An energy receiver including a power receiver coil configured to wirelessly receive power transmitted from a power transmitter; a detection section configured to detect a foreign object; and a power storage section configured to supply power to the detection section during detection of the foreign object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Shinichi Fukuda, Yuji Murayama, Kenichi Fujimaki, Tomomichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10819150
    Abstract: Provided is a non-contact electric power feeding system including an electric power feeding device, and an electric power receiving device configured to receive electric power fed from the electric power feeding device. The electric power feeding device includes a primary-side coil, a driver, a primary-side control unit, and a primary-side communication unit. The electric power receiving device includes a secondary-side coil, a rectifier unit, a regulator, a secondary-side communication unit, and a secondary-side control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kozakai, Hiroaki Nakano, Shinichi Fukuda, Masayuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10819393
    Abstract: An electromagnetically-coupled state detection circuit including a detection unit that measures a primary side Q value of a circuit containing a primary side coil electromagnetically coupled with a secondary side coil and power transmission efficiency to the secondary side coil, corrects the power transmission efficiency based on the Q value of the primary side coil, and detects a state of electromagnetic coupling with the secondary side coil based on an obtained corrected value of the power transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Tomomichi Murakami, Shinichi Fukuda, Osamu Kozakai, Kenichi Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 10819161
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a detecting device including a coil electromagnetically coupled to the external, a resonant circuit that includes at least the coil, and a detecting section that superimposes a measurement signal for measuring the Q-factor of the resonant circuit on a power transmission signal transmitted to the coil in a contactless manner and removes the power transmission signal from an alternating-current signal obtained by superimposing the measurement signal on the power transmission signal. The detecting section measures the Q-factor by using the alternating-current signal from which the power transmission signal is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Bunsen, Hiroaki Nakano, Tomomichi Murakami, Shinichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10755499
    Abstract: An opening-closing control device of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit that perform communication with an authenticated communication device; an authentication processor that performs authentication processing on the authenticated communication device on a basis of a result of the communication with the authenticated communication device; an opening-closing operation unit that performs an operation on a lockable opening-closing unit; an operation detector that detects an operation state of the opening-closing operation unit; and a controller that locks or unlocks the opening-closing unit on a basis of a result of the authentication processing and a result of detection of the operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communication Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Miyamoto, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Shinichi Fukuda, Yoshihito Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 10721002
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmission/reception device and a transmission/reception method that improves a transmission characteristic in human body communication. The transmission/reception device includes three electrodes including a human body side electrode in contact with a human body, a space side electrode provided on a space side, not the human body side, and a circuit board provided with a circuit. At the time of transmission, a switch between the space side electrode and the circuit board is turned off to make a three-pole electrode configuration having superiority in the transmission characteristic, and each electrode is caused to function as an independent electrode. At the time of reception, the switch between the space side electrode and the circuit board is turned on to electrically short-circuit the space side electrode and the circuit board, to cause the electrodes to function as a two-pole electrode configuration having superiority in the transmission characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuda, Takanori Washiro, Masahiro Uno
  • Publication number: 20200147736
    Abstract: According to the present invention, the operating rate of a machine tool can be increased. Solution is made by a machine tool including a processing chamber surrounded by cover walls to perform processing of a workpiece to be processed, an equerre a part of which is arranged inside the processing chamber, the equerre fixing the workpiece, an opening arranged at a part of the cover walls for access to an inside of the processing chamber, and shutter doors movable between open positions where opening of the opening is performed so that the inside of the processing chamber communicates with an outside of the processing chamber, and closed positions where closing of the opening is performed so that the inside of the processing chamber is isolated from the outside of the processing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: KIWA MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20200136437
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power fed from a feed unit by using a magnetic field; and a control section configured to perform, when a receiving current supplied from the power receiving section is less than a predetermined threshold current at a time of a light load, current increasing control to increase the receiving current to the threshold current or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Toru Terashima, Keigo Bunsen, Shinichi Fukuda