Patents by Inventor Shuichi Sawada
Shuichi Sawada 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: 20220005365Abstract: There is provided a technology that can improve the convenience of users who are reading books. An information processing apparatus has a controller that determines a focus sentence in a subject book that a user is reading. The focus sentence is a sentence on which the user is focusing attention. The controller analyzes what the focus sentence describes and obtains related information relating to what the focus sentence describes. Moreover, the controller executes the processing for causing a user's terminal that the user is using to display the related information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO
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Publication number: 20210401243Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a user is effectively notified of whether hand-washing is sufficient or not. A drying system according to the present disclosure includes a first sensor configured to sense a washed hand of a user and a controller configured to acquire first information on the temperature of the washed hand of the user based on data acquired from the first sensor and determine whether to provide a dry medium for the user based on the first information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Shin SAKURADA, Yasuhiro BABA, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO
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Publication number: 20210406969Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed includes a controller configured to execute the processing of obtaining user identification information for identifying a user, obtaining property information indicating a property of the user on the basis of the user identification information, and determining an upper limit number on the basis of the property information. The upper limit number is the number of specific items that the user is allowed to purchase.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin SAKURADA, Shuichi SAWADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Takaharu UENO, Yurika TANAKA, Genshi KUNO
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Patent number: 8148617Abstract: A drum pad capable of providing an excellent percussion feeling and securely adhering a base portion to a body portion made of rubber. The drum pad has a rear-side clothlike material which is provided on a rear surface of the body portion and into which the rubber of the body portion is impregnated. The base portion is fixed to a rear surface of the rear-side clothlike material via a fixing layer made of pressure sensitive adhesive or adhesive and provided on the rear surface of the rear-side clothlike material.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Ryuji Hashimoto, Shuichi Sawada, Kenichi Nishida, Keizo Harada
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Patent number: 7926351Abstract: Grounded, circular movable electrode and divided electrodes, formed on a surface of a circular printed board, are opposed to each other via a double-face tape, functioning also as a spacer, with a slight gap interposed therebetween. As a pad is struck with a stick, the gap between the movable electrode and the divided electrodes changes so that capacitance between the movable electrode and the divided electrodes changes, in response to which signals are output from the divided electrodes. The divided electrodes are sandwiched between the grounded movable electrode and a grounded shielded electrode and thus are not influenced from external disturbances.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Kazuo Masaki, Shuichi Sawada, So Tanaka
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Publication number: 20100282048Abstract: A drum pad capable of providing an excellent percussion feeling and securely adhering a base portion to a body portion made of rubber. The drum pad has a rear-side clothlike material which is provided on a rear surface of the body portion and into which the rubber of the body portion is impregnated. The base portion is fixed to a rear surface of the rear-side clothlike material via a fixing layer made of pressure sensitive adhesive or adhesive and provided on the rear surface of the rear-side clothlike material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Ryuji HASHIMOTO, Shuichi Sawada, Kenichi Nishida, Keizo Harada
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Patent number: 7816597Abstract: A drum pad has a knitted material that is strechable and has a top surface to be beaten by a stick and a rear surface opposite to the top surface, a resin member that is strechable and thinner than the knitted material and that is capable of being thermally fused and bonded to the knitted material, and a rubber. The drum pad is formed of a first layer portion, a second layer portion, and a body portion. The first layer portion is formed in a region of the knitted material including the top surface thereof but not including the rear surface. The body portion is formed of the rubber. The second layer portion is formed in a remaining region of the knitted material other than the first layer portion and formed between the body portion and the first layer portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Masuhiro Okada, Shuichi Sawada
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Patent number: 7786372Abstract: Three valve assemblies are linked with finger buttons and inserted into a pipe structure of a trumpet for changing the length of air column, and a supporting system assists a player in fingering on the finger buttons; sensors are adhered to the finger buttons so as to supply a detecting signal representative of force exerted on the finger buttons by the player to a controlling unit; when the force exceeds over a threshold, the controlling unit energizes actuators connected to the valve assemblies so as to make the player feel the valve assemblies lightly changed.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Akihiko Komatsu, Nariyasu Yaguchi, Yoshinori Hayashi, Souichi Takigawa
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Patent number: 7667116Abstract: A key actuating system (1) of a keyboard musical instrument is provided which helps quickly push the keys by reducing reaction force with respect to force of pushing the keys during manual operation, and which supports a person having less strength to play the keyboard musical instrument. The key actuating system for a keyboard musical instrument generates a sound when a key (3) is pushed including: a pressure detection sensor (11) detecting a pushing pressure on the key; a status detection sensor (13) detecting a movement status of the key: an actuator (15) actuating the key in a pushing direction of the key; and a control portion (19), when the pressure detection sensor detects the pushing pressure and the status detection sensor detects motion of the key, controls operations of the actuator in order to maintain the detected pressure by the pressure detection sensor at a pressure threshold which is in a range larger than 0 and smaller than a pushing pressure on the key which is necessary for making a sound.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Yamashita, Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Emiko Suzuki, legal representative, Yoshinori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20090241754Abstract: A drum pad has a knitted material that is strechable and has a top surface to be beaten by a stick and a rear surface opposite to the top surface, a resin member that is strechable and thinner than the knitted material and that is capable of being thermally fused and bonded to the knitted material, and a rubber. The drum pad is formed of a first layer portion, a second layer portion, and a body portion. The first layer portion is formed in a region of the knitted material including the top surface thereof but not including the rear surface, and is permeated with the melted resin member such that the resin member and the knitted material monolithically solidify with each other. The body portion is formed of the rubber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Masuhiro OKADA, Shuichi SAWADA
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Publication number: 20090151475Abstract: Grounded, circular movable electrode and divided electrodes, formed on a surface of a circular printed board, are opposed to each other via a double-face tape, functioning also as a spacer, with a slight gap interposed therebetween. As a pad is struck with a stick, the gap between the movable electrode and the divided electrodes changes so that capacitance between the movable electrode and the divided electrodes changes, in response to which signals are output from the divided electrodes. The divided electrodes are sandwiched between the grounded movable electrode and a grounded shielded electrode and thus are not influenced from external disturbances.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Kazuo MASAKI, Shuichi Sawada, So Tanaka
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Patent number: 7402738Abstract: A player changes the pitch of tones produced through a trombone by controlling the breath and a slide, and the control of slide is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a supporting system is combined with the trombone, and includes a manipulating board fitted to an appropriate portion of the trombone close to the slide, a driving mechanism connected to the slide and a controlling unit connected to the manipulating board and driving mechanism; when the player wishes to change the pitch of tones through the sliding motion of the slide, he moves a lever on the manipulating board by a distance shorter than a target stroke of the slide, and the controlling unit calculates the target stroke so as to supply a driving signal to the driving mechanism; and the driving mechanism exerts force on the slide so as to assist the player in varying the length of the column of air.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Yoshinori Hayashi, Akihiko Komatsu, Nariyasu Yaguchi, Souichi Takigawa
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Patent number: 7385134Abstract: A saxophone has a complicated key mechanism for selectively closing and opening tone holes, and fingering on touch buttons and keys is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a supporting system is combined with the saxophone so as to assist a human player in fingering, and includes sensors, actuators and a controlling unit; while the human player is fingering on the touch buttons and keys, the sensors inform the controlling unit of changes of the depressed touch buttons and depressed keys, and the controlling unit supplies driving signals to the actuators associated with the tone holes to be closed so as to permit the human player easily and quickly to play music tunes.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Yoshinori Hayashi, Akihiko Komatsu, Nariyasu Yaguchi, Souichi Takigawa
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Publication number: 20080127799Abstract: In a musical keyboard instrument, a keyboard having a plurality of keys that pivotally move about a frame is mechanically isolated from a tone generator having a plurality of operating members allowing musical tones to be generated in response to the keys being depressed. A plurality of key-depression detection devices are arranged for the keys so as to detect the key-depression operations applied to the keys. A drive control device drives the operating members so as to generate musical tones in response to key-depression signals output from the key-depression detection devices upon detection of the key-depression operations applied to the keys. Thus, it is possible for the player, in particular, a weak person, to easily and rapidly perform key-depression operations, thus realizing desired musical performance of the musical keyboard instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Yamashita, Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Yoshinori Hayashi, Emiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080092720Abstract: A key actuating system (1) of a keyboard musical instrument is provided which helps quickly push the keys by reducing reaction force with respect to force of pushing the keys during manual operation, and which supports a person having less strength to play the keyboard musical instrument. The key actuating system for a keyboard musical instrument generates a sound when a key (3) is pushed including: a pressure detection sensor (11) detecting a pushing pressure on the key; a status detection sensor (13) detecting a movement status of the key: an actuator (15) actuating the key in a pushing direction of the key; and a control portion (19), when the pressure detection sensor detects the pushing pressure and the status detection sensor detects motion of the key, controls operations of the actuator in order to maintain the detected pressure by the pressure detection sensor at a pressure threshold which is in a range larger than 0 and smaller than a pushing pressure on the key which is necessary for making a sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Masayoshi Yamashita, Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Emiko Suzuki, Yoshinori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20070234887Abstract: Three valve assemblies are linked with finger buttons and inserted into a pipe structure of a trumpet for changing the length of air column, and a supporting system assists a player in fingering on the finger buttons; sensors are adhered to the finger buttons so as to supply a detecting signal representative of force exerted on the finger buttons by the player to a controlling unit; when the force exceeds over a threshold, the controlling unit energizes actuators connected to the valve assemblies so as to make the player feel the valve assemblies lightly changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: SHUICHI SAWADA, Hideo Suzuki, Akihiko Komatsu, Nariyasu Yaguchi, Yoshinori Hayashi, Souichi Takigawa
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Publication number: 20070227343Abstract: A saxophone has a complicated key mechanism for selectively closing and opening tone holes, and fingering on touch buttons and keys is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a supporting system is combined with the saxophone so as to assist a human player in fingering, and includes sensors, actuators and a controlling unit; while the human player is fingering on the touch buttons and keys, the sensors inform the controlling unit of changes of the depressed touch buttons and depressed keys, and the controlling unit supplies driving signals to the actuators associated with the tone holes to be closed so as to permit the human player easily and quickly to play music tunes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Yoshinori Hayashi, Akihiko Komatsu, Nariyasu Yaguchi, Souichi Takigawa
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Publication number: 20070221038Abstract: A player changes the pitch of tones produced through a trombone by controlling the breath and a slide, and the control of slide is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a supporting system is combined with the trombone, and includes a manipulating board fitted to an appropriate portion of the trombone close to the slide, a driving mechanism connected to the slide and a controlling unit connected to the manipulating board and driving mechanism; when the player wishes to change the pitch of tones through the sliding motion of the slide, he moves a lever on the manipulating board by a distance shorter than a target stroke of the slide, and the controlling unit calculates the target stroke so as to supply a driving signal to the driving mechanism; and the driving mechanism exerts force on the slide so as to assist the player in varying the length of the column of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Shuichi Sawada, Hideo Suzuki, Yoshinori Hayashi, Akihiko Komatsu, Nariyasu Yaguchi, Souichi Takigawa
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Patent number: 7145171Abstract: A probe unit comprises a flexible substrate made of an inorganic substance and having an almost straight edge, an electro conductive film formed on a surface of the substrate and having a plurality of contact parts aligned on a surface of the edge and can contact with electrodes of a sample and lead parts connected to the contact parts, wherein the substrate is elastically deformed together with the contact part while the plurality of the contacts parts are supported by the edge when a force is added to press a surface of the contact part.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Sugiura, Toshitaka Yoshino, Shuichi Sawada
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Patent number: 6998857Abstract: A probe unit to be fixed to a probe device for testing functions of a test body. The probe unit includes: a substrate; probe pins formed on the substrate by lithography, the probe pins having distal ends protruded from the substrate and being made in contact with electrodes of the test body; and a positioning member formed on the substrate by lithography at a predetermined position relative to the probe pins, the positioning means abutting upon a member for positioning the substrate relative to the probe device.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yoshiki Terada, Shuichi Sawada, Atsuo Hattori