Patents by Inventor Takahiro Murata

Takahiro Murata 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: 20250033581
    Abstract: A wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device includes: a first wiring member; and a second wiring member that has higher flex resistance than the first wiring member. A first outer path length of the first wiring member is defined by a length of a first outer path portion of the first wiring member. A second outer path length of the second wiring member is defined by a length of a second outer path portion of the second wiring member. The first outer path length of the first wiring member is greater than the second outer path length of the second wiring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20250004032
    Abstract: An electric wire inspection system and method that can sensitively detect damage on an electric wire, and an electric wire capable of being inspected using the same. The electric wire inspection system includes: an inspection unit which performs electric wire inspection wherein a characteristic impedance between two conductive members of the electric wire is obtained as a response signal by time domain or frequency domain reflectometry; a storage unit which stores the response signal obtained at a first time point; and an analysis unit which retrieves the response signal obtained at the first time point from the storage unit, compares it with the response signal obtained at a second time point later than the first time point, and, if a difference exists between the two response signals, correlates a region in which the difference exists in the response signals with a position along an axial direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu KOMORI, Takahiro MURATA, Fujio SONODA, Takumi OOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240412894
    Abstract: A multicore cable includes a plurality of coated electric wires; a detection wire; and a sheath. The coated electric wires include an electric wire conductor and an electric wire coating. The electric wire conductor is a stranded wire of a plurality of electric wire filaments, and the electric wire coating covers an outer surface of the electric wire conductor. The detection wire includes a detection wire conductor that is a stranded wire of a plurality of detection wire filaments. The sheath covers an outer surface of a core that includes the coated electric wires and the detection wire. The coated electric wires include two electric power supply wires disposed so as to be next to each other, and the detection wire is disposed in a region enclosed by: the two electric power supply wires disposed so as to be next to each other; and the sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Takumi OOSHIMA, Soichiro OKUMURA, Hirokazu KOMORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 12166337
    Abstract: A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube, the connection structure includes: a wire-shaped transmission member; a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member; and a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member. The housing member includes: a housing body portion for housing the first portion, and an extended portion that protrudes toward the second portion from the housing body portion, and an end portion of the protective tube covers the extended portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mori, Takahiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20240403982
    Abstract: The present invention is a contract document review program (10), the contract document review program (10) causing a computer to function as: a contract document reading unit (20) for reading at least document files of a first contract document and a second contract document related to the first contract document, into a computer; a comment generation unit (22) generating comments on articles included in at least the first contract document, based on the document files read by the contract document reading unit; a comment modification unit (24) performing modification including addition, change and/or deletion for the generated comments, based on content of the second contract document; and a comment output unit (32) outputting the comments on the articles of the first contract document generated by the comment generation unit and modified by the comment modification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20240404730
    Abstract: A multicore cable includes a plurality of coated electric wires; a detection wire; and a sheath. The coated electric wires include an electric wire conductor and an electric wire coating. The electric wire conductor is a stranded wire of a plurality of electric wire filaments. The electric wire coating covers an outer surface of the electric wire conductor. The detection wire includes a detection wire conductor that is a stranded wire of a plurality of detection wire filaments. The sheath covers an outer surface of a core that includes the coated electric wires and the detection wire. The detection wire is disposed in a region enclosed by the coated electric wires. A filament diameter of the detection wire filaments is equal to or greater than a filament diameter of the electric wire filaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Takumi OOSHIMA, Hirokazu KOMORI, Soichiro OKUMURA, Takahiro MURATA, Mitsuru SAKAMOTO, Yuka TAKAHASHI, Masaki KABUTOYA
  • Publication number: 20240403408
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, from an external apparatus, a state regarding at least one item of a password policy of a password string entered on the external apparatus, and an obfuscated password string, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a setting, which is made in the information processing apparatus, regarding the at least one item of the password policy, a determination unit configured to determine whether the obfuscated password string satisfies the password policy, based on the acquired state regarding the at least one item of the password policy of the password string, and the acquired setting regarding the at least one item of the password policy, and an update unit configured to update a password based on the obfuscated password string in a case where it is determined that the obfuscated password string satisfies the password policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventor: TAKAHIRO MURATA
  • Publication number: 20240402951
    Abstract: Provided is an image formation apparatus subjected to being set as a target of a service in which use of an apparatus main body of the image formation apparatus and a consumable product to be used for printing is made available to a user for a specific sum of money, the consumable product including up to a predetermined number of printed sheets. Processing for providing the service is executed in the image formation apparatus based on contract information of the service which is received from a management server configured to manage the service in accordance with conclusion of a contract of the service which is made after the image formation apparatus is purchased by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventor: TAKAHIRO MURATA
  • Patent number: 12155187
    Abstract: A wiring member including: three or more electrical wire portions extending in different directions from a branching position; and a retaining member that is an elastic member and covers base end portions of the three or more electrical wire portions. The retaining member includes three or more cylindrical portions that are joined to each other at respective base end portions thereof, one or two adjacent cylindrical portions of the three or more cylindrical portions being a base cylindrical portion provided with a slit extending over the entire length thereof on one side, and the remaining cylindrical portion being a divided cylindrical portion provided with slits extending over the entire length thereof on two sides, and the retaining member is closed via a fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Murata
  • Patent number: 12128837
    Abstract: A wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device includes: a first wiring member; and a second wiring member that has higher flex resistance than the first wiring member. A first outer path length of the first wiring member is defined by a length of a first outer path portion of the first wiring member. A second outer path length of the second wiring member is defined by a length of a second outer path portion of the second wiring member. The first outer path length of the first wiring member is greater than the second outer path length of the second wiring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Murata
  • Patent number: 12034285
    Abstract: A hot melt block 20 that is assembled at a portion where an insulating sheath 16 of a cable 10 in which a plurality of electric wires 11 and 12 are collectively surrounded by the insulating sheath 16 is removed and the electric wires 11 and 12 are drawn out, and that is melted through heating. The hot melt block 20 includes: an insertion portion 21 that can be inserted between the electric wires 11 and 12 surrounded by the sheath 16; and a spacer 24 that is fixed to the insertion portion 21, and is disposed between the electric wires 11 and 12 at the portion where the electric wires are drawn out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Komori, Takahiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20240097416
    Abstract: A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube, the connection structure includes: a wire-shaped transmission member; a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member; and a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member. The housing member includes: a housing body portion for housing the first portion, and an extended portion that protrudes toward the second portion from the housing body portion, and an end portion of the protective tube covers the extended portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki MORI, Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20240075947
    Abstract: The present invention provides a failure diagnosis system (10) including: a vehicle-related data acquisition unit (11) acquiring vehicle-related data related to a target vehicle; a malfunction determination unit (12) determining a malfunction that may be occurring in the target vehicle, based on the vehicle-related data; an image capture location determination unit (13) determining an area to be captured for failure diagnosis, based on the determined malfunction; and a notification unit (14) notifying a user of the determined area to be captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuma Yazaki, Takahiro Murata, Yusuke Koitabashi, Sachiko Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20240046660
    Abstract: A radar device includes (a) a vehicle speed acquisition unit that acquires the speed of a vehicle, (b) a transmission unit that transmits a transmission signal toward an area including a direction orthogonal to the travel direction of the vehicle, (c) a reception unit that receives a reflected signal of the transmission signal transmitted by the transmission unit, (d) a pseudo signal creation unit that creates as many pseudo reception signals as are appropriate to the speed of the vehicle, the speed having been acquired by the vehicle speed acquisition unit, according to the reflected signal received by the reception unit, and (e) a distance detection unit that detects the distance to an object present in the direction orthogonal to the travel direction of the vehicle, according to the reflected signal received by the reception unit and the pseudo reception signals created by the pseudo signal creation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 11870230
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the size of a connection structure for a housing member for housing a portion of a wire-shaped transmission member and a protective tube for covering the wire-shaped transmission member. A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube includes a wire-shaped transmission member, a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member, and a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member. The housing member includes a housing body portion for housing the first portion and an extended portion that protrudes toward the second portion from the housing body portion, and an end portion of the protective tube covers the extended portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mori, Takahiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20230420158
    Abstract: A cable with an abnormality precursor detection function includes: one or more target electric wires each including a corresponding one of electric wire conductors and an electric wire coating that covers an outer periphery of the electric wire conductor; one or more detection wires each including a corresponding one of detection wire conductors and a detection wire coating that covers an outer periphery of the detection wire conductor; and a sheath that covers an outer periphery of an electric wire group including the one or more target electric wires and the one or more detection wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokazu KOMORI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Fujio SONODA, Takahiro MURATA, Kenta KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230367797
    Abstract: A document processing method comprising: outputting information for displaying a search keyword input field for searching for, based on an input search keyword, document information stored in a storage unit, a type display region for selectably displaying a type decided based on content of the document information, and a search keyword display region for displaying a search keyword based on a search history of the document information in past together with a number of search results of the document information searched for by the search keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: LEGALON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230347838
    Abstract: A wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device to each other includes: a first wiring member; and a second wiring member. An entire outer path portion of the first wiring member, and an entire outer path portion of the second wiring member are separated from each other outside a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230339416
    Abstract: A wire harness for connecting a vehicle body-side device and a wheel-side device includes: a first wiring member; and a second wiring member that has higher flex resistance than the first wiring member. A first outer path length of the first wiring member is defined by a length of a first outer path portion of the first wiring member. A second outer path length of the second wiring member is defined by a length of a second outer path portion of the second wiring member. The first outer path length of the first wiring member is greater than the second outer path length of the second wiring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Takahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230311792
    Abstract: An undercarriage wiring module includes: a wiring member connecting a vehicle body side apparatus and a vehicle wheel side apparatus; and a support member supporting the wiring member, wherein the wiring member includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members, the wiring member includes a parallel section in which at least two of the plurality of wire-like transmission members are parallelly arranged, and in the parallel section, the at least two of the plurality of wire-like transmission members are parallelly arranged to extend along an identical route along a steering rotation central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro MURATA, Naofumi YAMATAKE