Patents by Inventor Takayuki Akai
Takayuki Akai 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: 20220369017Abstract: A housing that has a first portion and a second portion having outer shapes of different sizes, the first portion being larger in the outer shape than the second portion; and a speaker that is disposed inside the housing and outputs sound are included. The first portion has a first bulging portion and a second bulging portion, each of which bulges toward an outer peripheral side with respect to the second portion, and fitted to an ear is achieved with the first bulging portion partially inserted into a space ranging from an ear concha to an intertragic notch in each of inside a tragus and inside an antitragus, and the second bulging portion inserted into the ear concha inside an antihelix.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: SOICHI TANAKA, TAKAYUKI AKAI
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Patent number: 9694427Abstract: In a lathe equipped with a spindle for rotatably driving a work and a tool rest having a turret (rotary member) rotatably supporting a plurality of tools in an indexable manner about a horizontal axis, the tool rest is detachably installed on a tool rest installation portion formed so as to be positioned on an operator side so that the tools of the turret face the work side gripped by the spindle in an attachable and detachable manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Akai, Yoshihiro Matsumoto, Masashi Yokoyama, Toshiaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 9643256Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle equipped with a workpiece gripping portion arranged so as to face an operator side, the spindle being configured to rotatably drive a workpiece gripped by the workpiece gripping portion, and a tool mount equipped with a rotary member supporting a plurality of tools in a rotatably indexable manner about an axis parallel to an axis of the spindle. The tool mount is arranged at a tool mount installation portion formed to be positioned on the operator side in a manner such that the rotary member faces a workpiece gripping portion side.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Akai, Yoshihiro Matsumoto, Masashi Yakoyama, Toshiaki Tanaka, Masao Fukumori
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Patent number: 9381609Abstract: A chip discharging device of a machine tool is equipped with a chip discharging member for discharging chips generated by machine processing to a workpiece to an outside of the machine tool, and a chip shooter for introducing the chips to the chip discharging member. The chip shooter connects an introducing opening for introducing the generated chips and a discharging opening for discharging the chips toward the chip discharging member by a guide wall surface. The guide wall surface includes a vertical wall surface and a plurality of inclined wall surfaces inclined with respect to the vertical wall surface. At least a boundary parts between the inclined wall surfaces and a boundary part between the inclined wall surface and the vertical wall surface are formed by a flat surface or a curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Akai, Yoshihiro Matsumoto, Masashi Yokoyama, Toshiaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20150306673Abstract: In a lathe equipped with a spindle for rotatably driving a work and a tool rest having a turret (rotary member) rotatably supporting a plurality of tools in an indexable manner about a horizontal axis, the tool rest is detachably installed on a tool rest installation portion formed so as to be positioned on an operator side so that the tools of the turret face the work side gripped by the spindle in an attachable and detachable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki AKAI, Yoshihiro MATSUMOTO, Masashi YOKOYAMA, Toshiaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20150273587Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle equipped with a workpiece gripping portion arranged so as to face an operator side, the spindle being configured to rotatably drive a workpiece gripped by the workpiece gripping portion, and a tool mount equipped with a rotary member supporting a plurality of tools in a rotatably indexable manner about an axis parallel to an axis of the spindle. The tool mount is arranged at a tool mount installation portion formed to be positioned on the operator side in a manner such that the rotary member faces a workpiece gripping portion side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki AKAI, Yoshihiro MATSUMOTO, Masashi YOKOYAMA, Toshiaki TANAKA, Masao FUKUMORI
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Publication number: 20150273642Abstract: A chip discharging device of a machine tool is equipped with a chip discharging member for discharging chips generated by machine processing to a workpiece to an outside of the machine tool, and a chip shooter for introducing the chips to the chip discharging member. The chip shooter connects an introducing opening for introducing the generated chips and a discharging opening for discharging the chips toward the chip discharging member by a guide wall surface. The guide wall surface includes a vertical wall surface and a plurality of inclined wall surfaces inclined with respect to the vertical wall surface. At least a boundary parts between the inclined wall surfaces and a boundary part between the inclined wall surface and the vertical wall surface are formed by a flat surface or a curved surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki AKAI, Yoshihiro MATSUMOTO, Masashi YOKOYAMA, Toshiaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20130058499Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a sound source configured to generate sound waves; and a housing configured to incorporate the sound source and include a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other, the first main surface including a groove-like concave portion configured to communicate in one axial direction along the second main surface, and an opening for transmitting sound waves of the sound source, the opening being provided in an area of the concave portion and at a position offset from the middle in the one axial direction of the first main surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Ryota Matsumoto, Takayuki Akai, Kazuya Ishii
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Patent number: 7690609Abstract: A suction cup having an adsorption surface is provided wherein the suction cup has a disk-like main suction cup unit composed of an elastically-deformable material and has an attachment surface. The attachment surface has a gel layer composed of a gel, bonded thereto so as to cover the attachment surface. The adsorption surface is formed by the surface of the gel layer, and the gel layer are composed of a center portion composing the center of the adsorption surface, and a circumferential portion composing the outer circumference of the adsorption surface. The outer circumferential portion has the thickness larger than the thickness of the center portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayuki Akai, Makoto Kawabata
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Patent number: 7635111Abstract: A suction cup device, includes: a suction cup; a center shaft; an attaching base; a rock lever; a coil spring; and a cam mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fumio Hara, Takayuki Akai
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Publication number: 20080251664Abstract: A suction cup device, includes: a suction cup; a center shaft; an attaching base; a rock lever; a coil spring; and a cam mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Fumio Hara, Takayuki Akai
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Patent number: 7357769Abstract: Machine tool simplifying maintenance, reducing manufacturing costs, and enabling high precision machining. The machine tool is equipped with: a bed furnished with a rectangular base, right and left sidewalls provided standing either side of the base, and a rear sidewall provided standing along the back of the base; a table disposed in the space surrounded by the three sidewalls; a first saddle shaped in the form of a rectangular frame shape, provided free to shift back and forth supported on the tops of the left and right sidewalls; a second saddle penetrated by a perpendicular through-hole and arranged free to shift sideways inside the first saddle frame; and a spindle head arranged free to shift perpendicularly inside the through-hole in the second saddle; and a main spindle arranged over the table and supported by the spindle head free to rotate centered on its axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoshi Takayama, Michio Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kimura, Kazuyuki Hiramoto, Takayuki Akai
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Publication number: 20070246621Abstract: A suction cup having an adsorption surface is provided wherein the suction cup has a disk-like main suction cup unit composed of an elastically-deformable material and has an attachment surface. The attachment surface has a gel layer composed of a gel, bonded thereto so as to cover the attachment surface. The adsorption surface is formed by the surface of the gel layer, and the gel layer are composed of a center portion composing the center of the adsorption surface, and a circumferential portion composing the outer circumference of the adsorption surface. The outer circumferential portion has the thickness larger than the thickness of the center portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayuki AKAI, Makoto Kawabata
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Patent number: 7192225Abstract: Machine tool having a bed, a table arranged on the bed, a first saddle provided free to travel back and forth, a second saddle supported on the first saddle and provided free to travel side to side, a spindle head provided free to travel perpendicularly on the second saddle, a main spindle situated above the table and by the spindle head supported free to rotate on its center axis, a front cover provided on the front side of the bed and furnished with doors that open and close sideways, and top covers configured with one end sideways shiftably connected to the front side of the first saddle, and with another end connected extensibly/retractably to the top of the front-cover doors, therein being configured for permitting back-and-forth-directed movement of the first saddle.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Mori Seki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoshi Takayama, Hikaru Ishigaki, Takayuki Akai, Nobuyuki Kimura
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Publication number: 20060270540Abstract: Machine tool simplifying maintenance, reducing manufacturing costs, and enabling high precision machining. The machine tool is equipped with: a bed furnished with a rectangular base, right and left sidewalls provided standing either side of the base, and a rear sidewall provided standing along the back of the base; a table disposed in the space surrounded by the three sidewalls; a first saddle shaped in the form of a rectangular frame shape, provided free to shift back and forth supported on the tops of the left and right sidewalls; a second saddle penetrated by a perpendicular through-hole and arranged free to shift sideways inside the first saddle frame; and a spindle head arranged free to shift perpendicularly inside the through-hole in the second saddle; and a main spindle arranged over the table and supported by the spindle head free to rotate centered on its axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoshi Takayama, Michio Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kimura, Kazuyuki Hiramoto, Takayuki Akai
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Publication number: 20060269375Abstract: Machine tool having a bed, a table arranged on the bed, a first saddle provided free to travel back and forth, a second saddle supported on the first saddle and provided free to travel side to side, a spindle head provided free to travel perpendicularly on the second saddle, a main spindle situated above the table and by the spindle head supported free to rotate on its center axis, a front cover provided on the front side of the bed and furnished with doors that open and close sideways, and top covers configured with one end sideways shiftably connected to the front side of the first saddle, and with another end connected extensibly/retractably to the top of the front-cover doors, therein being configured for permitting back-and-forth-directed movement of the first saddle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoshi Takayama, Hikaru Ishigaki, Takayuki Akai, Nobuyuki Kimura
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Patent number: 7088344Abstract: Provides control movement of a display area to an image displayed outside a display screen by means of a touch operation using a touch panel in such a general-purpose environment as a desk-top screen of an operating system. In an example embodiment, a data processing apparatus employs a touch panel unit as an input unit. The data processing apparatus includes an operation event detector for detecting an operation preset, to be distinguished from other normal inputs to the panel touch unit; a cursor movement information generator for generating movement information used to move a cursor positioned at the periphery of a display screen to the outside thereof; a cursor movement controller for moving the position of the cursor on a display image according to the generated movement information; and a virtual screen controller for scrolling an item displayed on the display screen according to a cursor movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunori Maezawa, Takayuki Akai, Yuhko Ohmori
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Patent number: 6924442Abstract: A pen input apparatus includes a plurality of penpoints for drawing tracks on a recording medium such as paper, and a selector for selecting a specific penpoint from the plurality of penpoints. The input apparatus including a type recognition unit for recognizing the type of the selected penpoint (such as the color of a line which can be drawn, the thickness of the line, pen type such as ballpoint pen, sign pen or fluorescent pen), and a transmitter for transmitting the track of the penpoint as position information, and transmitting the information on the type recognized by the type recognition unit to a computer system.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Nakano, Hirohide Komiyama, Takayuki Akai
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Patent number: 6832354Abstract: A computer system requiring input of a password on startup has an on-screen keyboard generation division for displaying an on-screen keyboard having a predetermined key layout on a touch panel, a keyboard type determination division for determining the key layout of the on-screen keyboard displayed on this touch panel, and a password checking division for processing a password inputted by pointing to the on-screen keyboard displayed on this touch panel. The key layout displayed on the touch panel is determined by a user pressing a particular key on a mechanical keyboard, which identifies which layout is to be displayed on the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Seiichi Kawano, Yuhko Ohmori, Takayuki Akai, Hidetoshi Mori
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Patent number: D797706Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Sagawa, Asako Kawamura, Takayuki Akai, So Morimoto