Patents by Inventor Shinya Kono
Shinya Kono 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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Patent number: 11964620Abstract: A vehicular power supply device to be equipped in a vehicle includes an electric storage unit group, an inverter, a driving motor, a converter, an electric device group, a first switch, and a second switch. The electric storage unit group includes first and second electric storage units. The driving motor is to be coupled to the electric storage unit group via the inverter. The electric device group is to be coupled to the electric storage unit group via the converter. The first switch is to be controlled between a state where the first electric storage unit is coupled to the inverter and a state where the first electric storage unit is coupled to the converter. The second switch is to be controlled between a state where the second electric storage unit is coupled to the inverter and a state where the second electric storage unit is coupled to the converter.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Itaru Seta, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yosuke Ohtomo, Masaki Komuro, Takashi Kono, Shinya Sagawa, Kazuki Makino
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Patent number: 11358488Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires battery information on a battery of each of one or more vehicles; a second acquisition unit that acquires supply source information on a state of a power supply source; a selection unit that selects a vehicle for providing electric power for the power supply source as a power source out of the one or more vehicles, based on the supply source information and the battery information; and a request unit that requests the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Kenichi Takahashi, Shinya Kono, Jun Araki
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Publication number: 20210053458Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires battery information on a battery of each of one or more vehicles; a second acquisition unit that acquires supply source information on a state of a power supply source; a selection unit that selects a vehicle for providing electric power for the power supply source as a power source out of the one or more vehicles, based on the supply source information and the battery information; and a request unit that requests the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Shinya KONO, Jun ARAKI
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Patent number: 10459192Abstract: A driving unit includes a tubular fixed part with a given axis as center, a movable part located inside the fixed part and having the axis as center, a front frame part attached to the fixed part and including at least a magnetic material, and a voice coil motor capable of moving the movable part relatively with respect to the fixed part in the axial direction by a coil wound around an outer circumference of the fixed part and a magnet located in the movable part, wherein the magnet of the movable part is biased by the magnetic material, and an axial width of the coil is longer than an axial width of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Kono, Takehiko Iguchi
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Patent number: 10288867Abstract: The drive unit includes a tubular fixed part, a tubular movable part, and a voice coil motor. The tubular fixed part is with a given axis as center, a tubular movable part 3 is located inside of the fixed part and having the axis as center, and a voice coil motor is capable of moving the movable part relatively with respect to the fixed part in the axial direction by a coil located in the fixed part and a magnet located in the movable part. In a state where the magnet is placed in the movable part, a first distance from the axis to the diametrically outer surface of the magnet is longer than a second distance from the axis to the inner circumference surface of the fixed part.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Kono, Takehiko Iguchi
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Patent number: 10120181Abstract: The optical unit is including a tubular fixed part, a front frame part, a back frame part, a movable part, and a voice coil motor that is capable of moving the movable part relatively with respect to the fixed part in a direction of the axis by a coil located in the fixed part and a magnet located in the movable part and magnetically polarized in a direction orthogonal to the axis, wherein at least a part of the movable part is included in a portion of the front frame part projected in the axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Kono, Takehiko Iguchi
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Patent number: 9887617Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power conversion device, including a control unit configured to control ON/OFF of a switching element of a neutral-point-clamped power conversion device unit, wherein the control unit drives the power conversion device unit by a one-pulse control, controls a phase difference of an output voltage of the power conversion device unit with respect to a reference phase of to control an active current component of an output current of the power conversion device unit, and controls ON/OFF based on: (a) a phase angle for eliminating a predetermined odd-order harmonic component of the output voltage; and (b) a sum of the reference phase and the phase difference.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Ryuta Hasegawa, Shinya Kono, Takashi Fujita, Teruyuki Ishizuki
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Publication number: 20160341950Abstract: The optical unit is including a tubular fixed part, a front frame part, a back frame part, a movable part, and a voice coil motor that is capable of moving the movable part relatively with respect to the fixed part in a direction of the axis by a coil located in the fixed part and a magnet located in the movable part and magnetically polarized in a direction orthogonal to the axis, wherein at least a part of the movable part is included in a portion of the front frame part projected in the axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya KONO, Takehiko IGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160334599Abstract: A driving unit includes a tubular fixed part with a given axis as center, a movable part located inside the fixed part and having the axis as center, a front frame part attached to the fixed part and including at least a magnetic material, and a voice coil motor capable of moving the movable part relatively with respect to the fixed part in the axial direction by a coil wound around an outer circumference of the fixed part and a magnet located in the movable part, wherein the magnet of the movable part is biased by the magnetic material, and an axial width of the coil is longer than an axial width of the magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya KONO, Takehiko IGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160282601Abstract: The drive unit includes a tubular fixed part, a tubular movable part, and a voice coil motor. The tubular fixed part is with a given axis as center, a tubular movable part 3 is located inside of the fixed part and having the axis as center, and a voice coil motor is capable of moving the movable part relatively with respect to the fixed part in the axial direction by a coil located in the fixed part and a magnet located in the movable part. In a state where the magnet is placed in the movable part, a first distance from the axis to the diametrically outer surface of the magnet is longer than a second distance from the axis to the inner circumference surface of the fixed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya KONO, Takehiko IGUCHI
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Patent number: 9448397Abstract: An image pickup unit includes: a moving lens holding barrel that holds a moving lens constituting a part of an objective optical system and is disposed so as to freely advance and retract along a shooting optical axis O; a drive unit that generates a driving force for advancing and retracting the moving lens holding barrel along the shooting optical axis O in a fixed barrel; a flexible substrate disposed so as to urge the moving lens holding barrel in one direction orthogonal to the shooting optical axis O and bent so as to press a part of an outer surface of the moving lens holding barrel in the one direction to an inner surface of the fixed barrel; and a magnetism detecting portion detecting a relative position of the moving lens holding barrel from the fixed barrel according to magnetism of a position detecting magnet.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Makiyama, Takehiko Iguchi, Shinya Kono
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Publication number: 20160190908Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power conversion device, including a control unit configured to control ON/OFF of a switching element of a neutral-point-clamped power conversion device unit, wherein the control unit drives the power conversion device unit by a one-pulse control, controls a phase difference of an output voltage of the power conversion device unit with respect to a reference phase of to control an active current component of an output current of the power conversion device unit, and controls ON/OFF based on: (a) a phase angle for eliminating a predetermined odd-order harmonic component of the output voltage; and (b) a sum of the reference phase and the phase difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Ryuta HASEGAWA, Shinya KONO, Takashi FUJITA, Teruyuki ISHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20160041381Abstract: An image pickup unit includes: a moving lens holding barrel that holds a moving lens constituting a part of an objective optical system and is disposed so as to freely advance and retract along a shooting optical axis O; a drive unit that generates a driving force for advancing and retracting the moving lens holding barrel along the shooting optical axis O in a fixed barrel; a flexible substrate disposed so as to urge the moving lens holding barrel in one direction orthogonal to the shooting optical axis O and bent so as to press a part of an outer surface of the moving lens holding barrel in the one direction to an inner surface of the fixed barrel; and a magnetism detecting portion detecting a relative position of the moving lens holding barrel from the fixed barrel according to magnetism of a position detecting magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi MAKIYAMA, Takehiko IGUCHI, Shinya KONO
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Patent number: 9100211Abstract: A double ring network system configured with two or more transmission stations each including a pair of bi-directionally communicative communication ports, including any adjacent two transmission stations as terminal stations, and any transmission station as a base, as mutually connected in a ring form by communication ports through a transmission line, for intercommunications between transmission stations, in which the transmission stations are each adapted to determine whether or not frame signals are received from adjacent transmission stations, transmit route identifying frame signals for identification of routes to adjacent transmission stations, when having failed in reception, and set own station as a terminal station substituting for a current terminal station, when having received no responses to the route identifying frames from adjacent transmission stations, so they are kept from arriving at ring-like connected subsequent transmission stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shinya Kono, Yasuhisa Shiobara
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Patent number: 8803957Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup unit including an objective lens including a plurality of optical system members via which an object image is formed, the image pickup unit including: a fixed barrel that holds a fixed lens in the objective lens; a moving lens holding barrel that holds a moving lens and is disposed so as to be slidable along an optical axis inside the fixed barrel; and a voice coil motor section that generates a drive force for moving the moving lens holding barrel relative to the fixed barrel along the optical axis, and the voice coil motor section is disposed so that a center axis of action of a generated thrust force passes through a gravity center of a driven member to be driven by the voice coil motor section.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Satoshi Makiyama, Takehiko Iguchi, Shinya Kono
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Patent number: 8743678Abstract: A double ring network system configured with two or more transmission stations each including a pair of bi-directionally communicative communication ports, including any adjacent two transmission stations as terminal stations, and any transmission station as a base, as mutually connected in a ring form by communication ports through a transmission line, for intercommunications between transmission stations, in which the transmission stations are each adapted to determine whether or not frame signals are received from adjacent transmission stations, transmit route identifying frame signals for identification of routes to adjacent transmission stations, when having failed in reception, and set own station as a terminal station substituting for a current terminal station, when having received no responses to the route identifying frames from adjacent transmission stations, so they are kept from arriving at ring-like connected subsequent transmission stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinya Kono, Yasuhisa Shiobara
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Patent number: 8705343Abstract: A double ring network system configured with two or more transmission stations each including a pair of bi-directionally communicative communication ports, including any adjacent two transmission stations as terminal stations, and any transmission station as a base, as mutually connected in a ring form by communication ports through a transmission line, for intercommunications between transmission stations, in which the transmission stations are each adapted to determine whether or not frame signals are received from adjacent transmission stations, transmit route identifying frame signals for identification of routes to adjacent transmission stations, when having failed in reception, and set own station as a terminal station substituting for a current terminal station, when having received no responses to the route identifying frames from adjacent transmission stations, so they are kept from arriving at ring-like connected subsequent transmission stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinya Kono, Yasuhisa Shiobara
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Patent number: 8670301Abstract: A double ring network system configured with two or more transmission stations each including a pair of bi-directionally communicative communication ports, including any adjacent two transmission stations as terminal stations, and any transmission station as a base, as mutually connected in a ring form by communication ports through a transmission line, for intercommunications between transmission stations, in which the transmission stations are each adapted to determine whether or not frame signals are received from adjacent transmission stations, transmit route identifying frame signals for identification of routes to adjacent transmission stations, when having failed in reception, and set own station as a terminal station substituting for a current terminal station, when having received no responses to the route identifying frames from adjacent transmission stations, so they are kept from arriving at ring-like connected subsequent transmission stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinya Kono, Yasuhisa Shiobara
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Patent number: 8665701Abstract: A double ring network system configured with two or more transmission stations each including a pair of bi-directionally communicative communication ports, including any adjacent two transmission stations as terminal stations, and any transmission station as a base, as mutually connected in a ring form by communication ports through a transmission line, for intercommunications between transmission stations, in which the transmission stations are each adapted to determine whether or not frame signals are received from adjacent transmission stations, transmit route identifying frame signals for identification of routes to adjacent transmission stations, when having failed in reception, and set own station as a terminal station substituting for a current terminal station, when having received no responses to the route identifying frames from adjacent transmission stations, so they are kept from arriving at ring-like connected subsequent transmission stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinya Kono, Yasuhisa Shiobara
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Publication number: 20130314517Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup unit including an objective lens including a plurality of optical system members via which an object image is formed, the image pickup unit including: a fixed barrel that holds a fixed lens in the objective lens; a moving lens holding barrel that holds a moving lens and is disposed so as to be slidable along an optical axis inside the fixed barrel; and a voice coil motor section that generates a drive force for moving the moving lens holding barrel relative to the fixed barrel along the optical axis, and the voice coil motor section is disposed so that a center axis of action of a generated thrust force passes through a gravity center of a driven member to be driven by the voice coil motor section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Satoshi MAKIYAMA, Takehiko IGUCHI, Shinya KONO