Patents by Inventor Tadao Maekawa

Tadao Maekawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20150216762
    Abstract: A vibration processing apparatus is provided with generating means and vibration presenting means. The generating means generates a vibration or an oscillation signal, that includes a first band including vibration components perceived as sound by an auditory system of a living body, and a second band including vibration components exhibiting an effect of lowering brain activity from among bands beyond the first band. The vibration presenting means applies the vibration of the second band to the living body, together with the vibration of the first band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Manabu Honda, Tadao Maekawa, Reiko Yagi, Osamu Ueno, Ariko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 8435167
    Abstract: A space is set substantially in a tropical rain forest type environment to activate a human's essential brain region and realize an environment suitable for the human's brain by arranging a device for setting the tropical rain forest type environment based on characteristics of activating human's essential brain region responsive to tropical rain forest type environment information, in a space such as an urban space, a housing space or other living space. The tropical rain forest type environmental information has higher density and higher complexity than those of urban space type environmental information, and includes at least one of auditory information, visual information, and super perceptual information of aerial vibration. The tropical rain forest type environmental information is comfortable for the human with no excessive stress, and is environmental information for effecting prevention and treatment of diseases due to stress by realizing the environment comfortable for the human's brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Action Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Reiko Yagi, Manabu Honda, Masako Morimoto, Tadao Maekawa, Susumu Nakamura, Michiko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8167826
    Abstract: A means is provided for generating a vibration or a vibration signal, which contains audible range components that are vibration components in the audible frequency range and super-high-frequency components within a range exceeding the audible frequency range up to a predetermined maximum frequency, and which has an autocorrelation order represented by at least either one of a first property and a second property. By applying the vibration or an actual vibration generated from the vibration signal to a human being, a fundamental brain activation effect activating the fundamental brain network system constituted of a fundamental brain including the brain stem, thalamus and hypothalamus that are regions to bear the fundamental function of the human being and the fundamental brain network of neuronal projection from the fundamental brain to various brain regions is introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Action Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Manabu Honda, Tadao Maekawa, Masako Morimoto, Reiko Yagi, Osamu Ueno
  • Publication number: 20110152729
    Abstract: Means is provided for generating a vibration or a vibration signal, which contains audible range components that are vibration components in the audible frequency range and super-highfrequency components within a range exceeding the audible frequency range up to a predetermined maximum frequency, and which has an autocorrelation order represented by at least either one of a first property and a second property. By applying the vibration or an actual vibration generated from the vibration signal to a human being, a fundamental brain activation effect for activating the fundamental brain network system constituted of a fundamental brain including the brain stem, thalamus and hypothalamus that are regions to bear the fundamental function of the human being and the fundamental brain network of neuronal projection from the fundamental brain to various brain regions is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Manabu Honda, Tadao Maekawa, Masako Morimoto, Reiko Yagi, Osamu Ueno
  • Publication number: 20100204540
    Abstract: A space is set substantially in a tropical rain forest type environment to activate a human's essential brain region and realize an environment suitable for the human's brain by arranging a device for setting the tropical rain forest type environment based on characteristics of activating human's essential brain region responsive to tropical rain forest type environment information, in a space such as an urban space, a housing space or other living space. The tropical rain forest type environmental information has higher density and higher complexity than those of urban space type environmental information, and includes at least one of auditory information, visual information, and super perceptual information of aerial vibration. The tropical rain forest type environmental information is comfortable for the human with no excessive stress, and is environmental information for effecting prevention and treatment of diseases due to stress by realizing the environment comfortable for the human's brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Reiko Yagi, Manabu Honda, Satoshi Nakamura, Masako Morimoto, Tadao Maekawa, Susumu Nakamura, Michiko Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080281238
    Abstract: A vibration presenting system includes a first vibration applying device for applying a vibration that is generated by a first vibration source and has frequency components within an audible range perceivable as a sound by an auditory sense system of a living body to the auditory sense system of the living body, and a second vibration applying device for applying a vibration that is generated by a second vibration source different from the first vibration source and has superhigh frequency components exceeding the audible range unperceivable by the auditory sense system of the living body to a living body component region other than the auditory sense system of the living body. The living body component region other than the auditory sense system of the living body is a body surface of the living body, which may include a head thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Manabu Honda, Tadao Maekawa, Masako Morimoto, Reiko Yagi, Osamu Ueno
  • Publication number: 20080071136
    Abstract: A space is set substantially in a tropical rain forest type environment to activate human's essential brain region and realize an environment suitable for the human's brain by arranging a device for setting the tropical rain forest type environment based on characteristics of activating human's essential brain region responsive to tropical rain forest type environment information, in the space such as urban space, housing space or other living space. The tropical rain forest type environmental information has higher density and higher complexity than those of urban space type environmental information, and includes at least one of auditory information, visual information, and super perceptual information of aerial vibration. The tropical rain forest type environmental information is comfortable for the human with no excessive stress, and is environmental information for effectively functioning on prevention and treatment of diseases due to stress by realizing the environment comfortable for the human's brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: TAKENAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oohashi, Norie Kawai, Emi Nishina, Reiko Yagi, Manabu Honda, Satoshi Nakamura, Susumu Nakamura, Michiko Nakamura, Masako Morimoto, Tadao Maekawa