Patents by Inventor Takaaki Mori

Takaaki Mori 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: 12115947
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a protection cover in a viewing field of a camera, a piezoelectric material to vibrate the protection cover, a driver to drive the piezoelectric material, a vibrator to detect a signal related to a vibration level of the protection cover vibrated with the piezoelectric material, and a controller to control the driver based on a signal detected by the vibration sensor so that the signal detected by the vibrator matches a predetermined target value of the vibration level of the protection cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Takata, Yuzo Mizushima, Takaaki Mori
  • Patent number: 12090680
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine includes a processing device including a processing blade; a drive shaft related to an operation of the processing blade; a shaft drive motor; a rotational position detection unit that detects a rotational position of the drive shaft; a width direction drive motor that moves the processing device; and a control unit, in which the control unit controls the shaft drive motor so that the drive shaft is at a predetermined rotational position based on the rotational position of the drive shaft detected by the rotational position detection unit, and controls the width direction drive motor so that the processing device moves to a predetermined processing position while the drive shaft maintains the predetermined rotational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiko Mori, Takaaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 12085912
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus for fully utilizing the functions of a machine tool by correctly converting CL data into an NC program. The information processing apparatus includes a CL data acquirer that can acquire CL data including standardization information based on a rule defined among a plurality of output devices, thereby acquiring CL data including the standardization information associated with at least one of unique control information of the numerical control apparatus, unique control information of the machine tool, and unique control information of a user of the machine tool, and an NC program generator that acquires an NC code corresponding to the standardization information included in the CL data, and generates an NC program including the NC code based on the NC code and the CL data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Mori, Naruhiro Irino, Hironari Sakamoto, Yoji Tsukui, Yasuhiro Imabeppu, Koji Matsuoka, Munetaka Wakizaka, Takaaki Soga, Tetsuo Ogawa, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11979669
    Abstract: In a cleaning device, a signal processing circuit determines that a foreign substance has adhered to a surface of a protection cover based on at least two pieces of information among a change amount of a resonant frequency when a vibration portion is driven at a first voltage, a change amount of a current value relating to an impedance detected by an impedance detector, and a temporal change of an image captured by an imaging portion, and cleans the surface of the protection cover by controlling the vibration portion in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Hitoshi Sakaguchi, Masaaki Takata, Masaru Amano, Takaaki Mori
  • Patent number: 11904367
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes an imaging section, a protective cover in a field of view of the imaging section, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a piezoelectric driver to drive the vibrator, a cleaning liquid discharger to discharge a cleaner onto a surface of the protective cover, and a signal processing circuit to control the piezoelectric driver. The signal processing circuit controls the piezoelectric driver such that the protective cover is vibrated at a resonant frequency for a predetermined period after the cleaning liquid is caused to be discharged and controls the piezoelectric driver such that, after the predetermined period, vibration of the protective cover is stopped or the protective cover is vibrated at a frequency other than the resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Mori
  • Patent number: 11782066
    Abstract: A reagent storage device of the present disclosure includes a shutter and a moving mechanism. The shutter is configured to open and close an opening in a reagent compartment for housing a reagent container, the reagent compartment being provided with the opening for insertion and removal of a probe used to extract a reagent from inside the reagent container housed in the reagent compartment. The moving mechanism is configured to move the shutter to an overlay position opposing the opening and separated from the opening before moving the shutter downward so as to close off the opening, and is also configured to move the shutter that is closing off the opening upward to open up the opening before withdrawing the shutter from the overlay position over the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Isao Yamaguchi, Takaaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20230258924
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a housing holding an imaging device, a protective cover located in a field of view of the imaging device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a piezoelectric driver to drive the vibrator, a cleaning liquid discharger to discharge, onto a surface of the protective cover, a cleaning liquid including an abrasive, and a signal processing circuit to control the piezoelectric driver and the cleaning liquid discharger. When causing the cleaning liquid discharger to discharge the cleaning liquid, the signal processing circuit can control the piezoelectric driver such that the protective cover is vibrated at a vibration acceleration of larger than about 8.0×105 m/s2 and equal to or less than about 21.0×105 m/s2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji NISHIYAMA, Takaaki MORI
  • Publication number: 20230004072
    Abstract: A vibration device includes a light-transmissive body, and a vibrator to vibrate the light-transmissive body at a vibration acceleration of equal to or more than about 1.5×105 m/s2 and equal to or less than about 8.0×105 m/s2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yuuki ISHII, Kenji NISHIYAMA, Noritaka KISHI, Takaaki MORI, Masaaki TAKATA, Takahide NAKADOI, Nobumasa KITAMORI
  • Patent number: 11507638
    Abstract: Provided is a web content automated generation system capable of simply creating web content without editing a programming language. A web content automated generation system includes an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire web content as one piece of image data, a source code acquisition unit configured to acquire a source code including HTML data constituting the web content, a learning unit configured to acquire teacher data by analyzing the image data and the source code, an image data registration unit configured to input web content to be created as one piece of image data, an analysis unit configured to analyze a degree of relevance between the input image data and teacher data stored in teacher data storage unit, and a content source code generation unit configured to generate content source code regarding the input image data on the basis of a source code of the teacher data having a high degree of relevance analyzed by the analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TSUNAGU.AI, INC.
    Inventor: Takaaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20220134760
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a protection cover in a viewing field of a camera, a piezoelectric material to vibrate the protection cover, a driver to drive the piezoelectric material, a vibrator to detect a signal related to a vibration level of the protection cover vibrated with the piezoelectric material, and a controller to control the driver based on a signal detected by the vibration sensor so that the signal detected by the vibrator matches a predetermined target value of the vibration level of the protection cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Masaaki TAKATA, Yuzo MIZUSHIMA, Takaaki MORI
  • Publication number: 20210370358
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes an imaging section, a protective cover in a field of view of the imaging section, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a piezoelectric driver to drive the vibrator, a cleaning liquid discharger to discharge a cleaner onto a surface of the protective cover, and a signal processing circuit to control the piezoelectric driver. The signal processing circuit controls the piezoelectric driver such that the protective cover is vibrated at a resonant frequency for a predetermined period after the cleaning liquid is caused to be discharged and controls the piezoelectric driver such that, after the predetermined period, vibration of the protective cover is stopped or the protective cover is vibrated at a frequency other than the resonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Takaaki MORI
  • Publication number: 20210270860
    Abstract: A reagent storage device of the present disclosure includes a shutter and a moving mechanism. The shutter is configured to open and close an opening in a reagent compartment for housing a reagent container, the reagent compartment being provided with the opening for insertion and removal of a probe used to extract a reagent from inside the reagent container housed in the reagent compartment. The moving mechanism is configured to move the shutter to an overlay position opposing the opening and separated from the opening before moving the shutter downward so as to close off the opening, and is also configured to move the shutter that is closing off the opening upward to open up the opening before withdrawing the shutter from the overlay position over the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Isao Yamaguchi, Takaaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20210192007
    Abstract: Provided is a web content automated generation system capable of simply creating web content without editing a programming language. A web content automated generation system includes an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire web content as one piece of image data, a source code acquisition unit configured to acquire a source code including HTML data constituting the web content, a learning unit configured to acquire teacher data by analyzing the image data and the source code, an image data registration unit configured to input web content to be created as one piece of image data, an analysis unit configured to analyze a degree of relevance between the input image data and teacher data stored in teacher data storage unit, and a content source code generation unit configured to generate content source code regarding the input image data on the basis of a source code of the teacher data having a high degree of relevance analyzed by the analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: TSUNAGU.AI, INC.
    Inventor: Takaaki MORI
  • Publication number: 20210084199
    Abstract: In a cleaning device, a signal processing circuit determines that a foreign substance has adhered to a surface of a protection cover based on at least two pieces of information among a change amount of a resonant frequency when a vibration portion is driven at a first voltage, a change amount of a current value relating to an impedance detected by an impedance detector, and a temporal change of an image captured by an imaging portion, and cleans the surface of the protection cover by controlling the vibration portion in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Noritaka KISHI, Hitoshi SAKAGUCHI, Masaaki TAKATA, Masaru AMANO, Takaaki MORI
  • Publication number: 20090233246
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material, which is highly sensitive, is almost free of staining on the background, and gives a recorded image excellent in stability during storage, by using a finely divided sensitizer dispersion excellent in shelf stability produced in a short time with high volumetric efficiency. The invention relates to a method of producing a sensitizer dispersion, which comprises emulsifying and finely dividing a heat-sensitive recording sensitizer by melting under heating in an aqueous emulsifying dispersant, and then crystallizing the finely divided emulsified dispersion under rapid cooling, wherein the sensitizer is at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1,2-bis(phenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(3-methylphenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(4-methylphenoxy)ethane, p-benzylbiphenyl, di-p-methylbenzyl oxalate, and ?-naphthyl benzyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Shigeru Oda, Eiji Kawabata, Takaaki Mori, Tjang Kie Tan, Hiroshi Sumitomo, Yoshito Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7557065
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material, which is highly sensitive, is almost free of staining on the background, and gives a recorded image excellent in stability during storage, by using a finely divided sensitizer dispersion excellent in shelf stability produced in a short time with high volumetric efficiency. The invention relates to a method of producing a sensitizer dispersion, which comprises emulsifying and finely dividing a heat-sensitive recording sensitizer by melting under heating in an aqueous emulsifying dispersant, and then crystallizing the finely divided emulsified dispersion under rapid cooling, wherein the sensitizer is at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1,2-bis(phenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(3-methylphenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(4-methylphenoxy)ethane, p-benzylbiphenyl, di-p-methylbenzyl oxalate, and ?-naphthyl benzyl ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sanko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Oda, Eiji Kawabata, Takaaki Mori, Tjang Kie Tan, Hiroshi Sumitomo, Yoshito Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20060252645
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material, which is highly sensitive, is almost free of staining on the background, and gives a recorded image excellent in stability during storage, by using a finely divided sensitizer dispersion excellent in shelf stability produced in a short time with high volumetric efficiency. The invention relates to a method of producing a sensitizer dispersion, which comprises emulsifying and finely dividing a heat-sensitive recording sensitizer by melting under heating in an aqueous emulsifying dispersant, and then crystallizing the finely divided emulsified dispersion under rapid cooling, wherein the sensitizer is at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1,2-bis(phenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(3-methylphenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(4-methylphenoxy)ethane, p-benzylbiphenyl, di-p-methylbenzyl oxalate, and ?-naphthyl benzyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Shigeru Oda, Eiji Kawabata, Takaaki Mori, Tjang Tan, Hiroshi Sumitomo, Yoshito Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20040043902
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material which has a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on a surface of a substrate, the recording layer comprising a basic chromogenic dye precursor and a developer, wherein as the developer, there is used a mixture comprising 5 to 95 wt % of 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-bis(4-hydroxybenzoyloxy)propane and 95 to 5 wt % of 4,4′-hydroxydiphenyl sulfone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Shigeru Oda, Takaaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20030102294
    Abstract: An electrode for adsorption (17) is provided in the vicinity of the laser processing position, and an electrode (18) for detecting capacitance is provided on the outer periphery of the electrode for adsorption (17), so that the capacitance (C) between the electrode (18) for detecting capacitance and the workpiece (15) is detected, with a voltage being applied to between the electrode for adsorption (17) and the workpiece (15), to thereby control the focal position (12a) of the laser beam (12) based on the detected capacitance (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kinbara, Kazuo Sakurai, Yoshihiro Ikai, Takaaki Mori
  • Patent number: 5829331
    Abstract: A tool holder composed of: a holder body, the holder body including: a tip mounting portion; a cutting tip held to the holder body at the tip mounting portion; a face adjoining the cutting tip; and a protrusion projecting from the face to thereby rebound chips produced by the cutting tip during a cutting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaaki Mori