Patents by Inventor Tadahiro Satoh

Tadahiro Satoh 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: 9581953
    Abstract: A rotary drive device includes a drive motor and drive transmission portion, which transmits a rotational drive force of the motor to a driven rotor and includes three or more drive transmission members. A high stiffness member is attached to a low-stiffness drive transmission member, which is one, lower in stiffness, of two of the drive transmission members, to increase stiffness of the low-stiffness drive transmission member. The two form a drive transmission point corresponding to a resonant point of a lowest resonance frequency among frequencies at a plurality of resonance points in frequency response characteristics derived from rotation information. One drive transmission point, which is on either a drive-transmission input side or output side, other than the drive transmission point corresponding to the resonant point of the lowest resonance frequency, of the low-stiffness drive transmission member is configured to transmit the rotational drive force through the high stiffness member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoyuki Suido, Keisuke Shimizu, Hiroaki Takagi, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Tadahiro Satoh
  • Publication number: 20160238981
    Abstract: A rotary drive device includes a drive motor and drive transmission portion, which transmits a rotational drive force of the motor to a driven rotor and includes three or more drive transmission members. A high stiffness member is attached to a low-stiffness drive transmission member, which is one, lower in stiffness, of two of the drive transmission members, to increase stiffness of the low-stiffness drive transmission member. The two form a drive transmission point corresponding to a resonant point of a lowest resonance frequency among frequencies at a plurality of resonance points in frequency response characteristics derived from rotation information. One drive transmission point, which is on either a drive-transmission input side or output side, other than the drive transmission point corresponding to the resonant point of the lowest resonance frequency, of the low-stiffness drive transmission member is configured to transmit the rotational drive force through the high stiffness member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoyuki SUIDO, Keisuke SHIMIZU, Hiroaki TAKAGI, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tadahiro SATOH
  • Publication number: 20130255057
    Abstract: A mounting head unit includes a main body section, a plurality of retaining sections, and a driving mechanism. The plurality of retaining sections are configured to be capable of retaining a plurality of components. The plurality of retaining sections each have a longitudinal direction and are rotatably supported by the main body section to be arranged in a direction across the longitudinal directions. The driving mechanism include a plurality of rotation mechanism sections respectively mounted on the plurality of retaining sections for rotating each of the plurality of retaining sections such that the rotation mechanism sections are mounted at different mounting positions in the longitudinal directions of the retaining sections adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Komatsu, Tadahiro Satoh