Patents by Inventor Takayuki Furuta
Takayuki Furuta 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: 20250065784Abstract: A conveyance seat accommodatable in a recess of a floor includes: a seat cushion; a front leg portion which supports a front lower portion of the seat cushion and of which one end is rotatably fixed at the front lower portion of the seat cushion and the other end is detachably fixed at a position in front of the recess; a rear leg portion which supports a rear lower portion of the seat cushion and of which one end is rotatably fixed at the rear lower portion of the seat cushion and the other end is rotatably fixed to the floor inside the recess; and an arm portion of which one end is rotatably fixed to the rear leg portion and the other end is fixable to the floor at a position behind the other of the rear leg portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Takako MIYOSHI, Takayuki KOBORI, Akio SEYA, Hiroki SHIBAYAMA, Kazuyoshi IIZUKA, Ai FURUTA, Kazuaki MIMA, Yuichiro HOSHI, Tomohisa CHIBA, Kensuke MORI, Hirokazu ONITSUKA
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Patent number: 11707850Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to reduce the downtime which occurs when changing a servo motor device. A servo motor device includes a motor section and a reduction gear configured to output a driving force by reducing a speed of rotation of the motor section, wherein a control device includes a detecting section configured to acquire detected information about operation of the motor section, and a computing section configured to generate an approximate curve based on a behavior for a time sequence of a parameter and to calculate predicted lifetime information of the servo motor device based on the approximate curve thus generated, wherein the parameter has been calculated by means of the detected information.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: Futaba Corporation, Chiba Institute of TechnologyInventors: Shotaro Kudo, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Toru Kono, Ryosei Kuramoto, Hidetoshi Muramatsu, Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato
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Patent number: 11409306Abstract: Provided is a movement robot configured so that various types of operation can be executed according to motion of other objects or a movement body and a utilization area can be expanded accordingly. The movement robot includes a robot body 1, a control unit 2, a traveling unit 3, and a detection unit 4.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masahiro Tomono, Kiyoshi Irie, Hideaki Yamato, Masaharu Shimizu, Shunji Yamanaka, Takayuki Furuta
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Patent number: 11356862Abstract: A measuring method executes an identifying procedure of measuring signal power of a beam from user equipment supporting beam-formed transmission, identifying a measurement antenna that detects a peak of the beam transmitted from the user equipment; a calculating procedure of calculating a first angle formed between a straight line connecting the measurement antenna detecting the peak of the beam transmitted from the user equipment to the user equipment and a straight line connecting a measurement antenna located in a direction of an azimuth angle rotation axis of the user equipment to the user equipment; and a rotating procedure of rotating the user equipment based on the first angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Seiji Hagiwara
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Publication number: 20220132404Abstract: A terminal includes a reception section that receives control information on transmit power for a first frequency band, and a control section that controls, based on the control information, whether or not to search for a signal in a second frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuta Oguma, Takayuki Furuta
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Publication number: 20220113732Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus and a mobile robot configured so that influence of a change in the posture of a mobile body can be reduced and the accuracy of measurement of a distance to a target object can be improved. A mobile robot 1 includes a control section 2 configured to drivably control each unit of a robot body 1A, a detection section 3 configured to detect a target object around the robot body 1A, and a mobile section 4 configured to move the robot body 1A. The detection section 3 includes first distance sensors 31 configured to detect distances to first positions P1 on a floor surface F in a movement direction D1 of the robot body 1A and second distance sensors 32 configured to detect distances to second positions P2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Takayuki FURUTA, Hideaki YAMATO, Kiyoshi IRIE, Takaaki MATSUZAWA, Masaharu SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11282481Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment is an information processing device controlling a motion of a user object in a virtual space that is associated with a user wearing an HMD, the information processing device including: a motion information acquiring unit that acquires motion information of the head and eyes of the user detected in an actual space; a provisional line-of-sight determining unit that determines a provisional line-of-sight of the user object on the basis of the motion information; a line-of-sight control unit that controls a line-of-sight of the user object on the basis of a positional relation between the provisional line-of-sight and one or more objects in the virtual space; and an image generating unit that generates an image which the line-of-sight of the user object controlled by the line-of-sight control unit is reflected in and are displayed on the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Yuuta Higuchi, Kazuki Higashi
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Publication number: 20220083067Abstract: A mobile robot 1 includes: a control means 2 for controlling the drive of each unit of a robot body 1A; a detection means 3 for detecting a target object around the robot body 1A; and a travel means 4 for moving the robot body 1A. The control means 2 determines a change in the environment by: obtaining two first measurement value groups S11 and S12 obtained by detecting the distances to different positions P1 and P2 in an environment at intervals of a predetermined time with the travel of the mobile robot 1; and processing the first measurement value groups, generating two second measurement value groups S21 and S22 according to the travel distance of the mobile robot 1, and comparing the generated second measurement value groups S21 and S22.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Takayuki FURUTA, Hideaki YAMATO, Kiyoshi IRIE, Takaaki MATSUZAWA, Masaharu SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20220024049Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to reduce the downtime which occurs when changing a servo motor device. A servo motor device includes a motor section and a reduction gear configured to output a driving force by reducing a speed of rotation of the motor section, wherein a control device includes a detecting section configured to acquire detected information about operation of the motor section, and a computing section configured to generate an approximate curve based on a behavior for a time sequence of a parameter and to calculate predicted lifetime information of the servo motor device based on the approximate curve thus generated, wherein the parameter has been calculated by means of the detected information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Shotaro KUDO, Yasuyuki SUZUKI, Toru KONO, Ryosei KURAMOTO, Hidetoshi MURAMATSU, Takayuki FURUTA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Hideaki YAMATO
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Publication number: 20220022053Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits information that indicates which beam correspondence that uses which downlink reference signal is supported; a receiving section that receives spatial relation information that indicates a downlink reference signal having a spatial relation with a sounding reference signal; and a control section that determines a spatial domain filter used to transmit an uplink signal, based on a spatial domain filter used to receive the downlink reference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Yuki Matsumura, Takayuki Furuta, Yuta Oguma
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Publication number: 20210370498Abstract: The present invention provides a main body with a coupling section, wherein the circuit board includes terminals for power supply and for signal, wherein the coupling section has a first positioning section and a second positioning section, and wherein the assembly is configured so that in a state where positioning has been performed by the first positioning section, positioning by the second positioning section is performed and the coupling section is coupled to another coupling section of another main body. Thus, coupling the coupling section is performed in the state where positioning has been performed, wherein connection of the terminals for power supply and for signal to power supply and signal terminal sections is performed in this state, which may enable the operability for coupling a coupling section to be improved while ensuring a mechanically and electrically correct coupled state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Shotaro KUDO, Yasuyuki SUZUKI, Toru KONO, Ryosei KURAMOTO, Hidetoshi MURAMATSU, Takayuki FURUTA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Hideaki YAMATO, Yuu OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20210365040Abstract: Provided is a movement robot configured so that various types of operation can be executed according to motion of other objects or a movement body and a utilization area can be expanded accordingly. The movement robot includes a robot body 1, a control unit 2, a traveling unit 3, and a detection unit 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Masahiro TOMONO, Kiyoshi IRIE, Hideaki YAMATO, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Shunji YAMANAKA, Takayuki FURUTA
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Publication number: 20210227399Abstract: A measuring method executes an identifying procedure of measuring signal power of a beam from user equipment supporting beam-formed transmission, identifying a measurement antenna that detects a peak of the beam transmitted from the user equipment; a calculating procedure of calculating a first angle formed between a straight line connecting the measurement antenna detecting the peak of the beam transmitted from the user equipment to the user equipment and a straight line connecting a measurement antenna located in a direction of an azimuth angle rotation axis of the user equipment to the user equipment; and a rotating procedure of rotating the user equipment based on the first angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Seiji Hagiwara
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Publication number: 20210137342Abstract: Provided is a self-propelled vacuum configured so that obstacle avoidance operation can be efficiently performed and cleaning time can be shortened. A self-propelled vacuum 1 includes a laser range finder (LRF) 20 configured to sense the periphery of a vacuum body 2, and an up-down drive unit 22 configured to move the LRF 20 up and down between a protrusion position above the vacuum body 2 and a housing position in the vacuum body 2. The up-down drive unit 22 is driven to move the LRF 20 up and down.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Takayuki FURUTA, Masahiro TOMONO, Hideaki YAMATO, Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Yu OKUMURA, Kengo TODA, Takashi KODACHI, Kiyoshi IRIE, Yoshitaka HARA, Kazuki OGIHARA
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Patent number: 10883572Abstract: A cycloid speed reducer has a housing for accommodating a piece of equipment. Outer pins in meshing engagement with cycloid gears of a reduction gear portion are incorporated into the housing as a sliding bearing. A lubrication ring for lubricating the outer pins is slidably incorporated into the housing. The outer pins are lubricated by the outer pin lubricating ring. Inner pins are lubricated by a lubricating ring. The pair of cycloid gears are lubricated via the outer pins and the inner pins. As a result, friction between components is reduced, whereby frictional resistance decreases and durability is enhanced. In addition, the cycloid speed reducer can be manufactured as a small, compact unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD., CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoshi Sasaki, Hideaki Yamato, Takayuki Furuta
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Publication number: 20200405115Abstract: An autonomous vacuum cleaner is provided which can promote reductions in size and load by simplifying the structure of a surrounding cleaning means. An autonomous vacuum cleaner (1) includes a vacuum cleaner body (2) having a wheel (121) for travelling autonomously, and a pivoting cleaner (3) that can vacuum and clean around the vacuum cleaner body (2). The pivoting cleaner (3) is configured including: an arm (21) that can pivot outward from the vacuum cleaner body (2); a vacuum inlet (74) that is provided to the arm (21) to suck up dirt and the like on the floor surface; a rotation support (61, 144) configured to rotatably support the arm (21) on the vacuum cleaner body (2); and a vacuum channel (66) that is provided along a rotation axis of the rotation support (61, 144) to cause the inside of the arm (21) and a sub-duct (143) to communicate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2017Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Takayuki FURUTA, Masahiro TOMONO, Hideaki YAMATO, Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Yu OKUMURA, Kengo TODA, Takashi KODACHI, Kiyoshi IRIE, Yoshitaka HARA, Kazuki OGIHARA
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Publication number: 20200405110Abstract: An autonomous vacuum cleaner is provided which can clean efficiently around a vacuum cleaner body. An autonomous vacuum cleaner (1) includes a vacuum cleaner body (2) having a wheel (121) for travelling autonomously, a surroundings sensor (32) for detecting an obstacle around the vacuum cleaner body (2), a pivoting cleaner (3) that can clean around the vacuum cleaner body (2), and a controller (5) that controls the surroundings sensor (32) and the pivoting cleaner (3). The pivoting cleaner (3) includes an arm (21) that protrudes outward from the vacuum cleaner body (2), a motor (22) that drives the arm (21), and a load sensor (23) that detects a load acting on the arm (21) from the outside. The motor (22) is controlled and driven on the basis of the presence or absence of an obstacle detected by the surroundings sensor (32), and travel of the vacuum cleaner body (2) is controlled on the basis of a load detected by the load sensor (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2017Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Takayuki FURUTA, Masahiro TOMONO, Hideaki YAMATO, Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Yu OKUMURA, Kengo TODA, Takashi KODACHI, Kiyoshi IRIE, Yoshitaka HARA, Kazuki OGIHARA
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Publication number: 20200345191Abstract: An autonomous vacuum cleaner is provided which allows a user to check the operating state of a vacuum cleaner body and a map to be created, and can increase cleaning efficiency. An autonomous vacuum cleaner (1) includes a vacuum cleaner body (2) and a mobile terminal (6). Whenever the vacuum cleaner body 2 acquires surrounding information and location information while travelling autonomously, a map creator (471) creates a map of a cleaning target space including the vacuum cleaner body (2) in real time, and a map display (61) of the mobile terminal (6) displays the map.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Takayuki FURUTA, Masahiro TOMONO, Hideaki YAMATO, Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Yu OKUMURA, Kengo TODA, Takashi KODACHI, Kiyoshi IRIE, Yoshitaka HARA, Kazuki OGIHARA
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Publication number: 20200335065Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment is an information processing device controlling a motion of a user object in a virtual space that is associated with a user wearing an HMD, the information processing device including: a motion information acquiring unit that acquires motion information of the head and eyes of the user detected in an actual space; a provisional line-of-sight determining unit that determines a provisional line-of-sight of the user object on the basis of the motion information; a line-of-sight control unit that controls a line-of-sight of the user object on the basis of a positional relation between the provisional line-of-sight and one or more objects in the virtual space; and an image generating unit that generates an image which the line-of-sight of the user object controlled by the line-of-sight control unit is reflected in and are displayed on the HMD.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takayuki FURUTA, Yuuta HIGUCHI, Kazuki HIGASHI
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Publication number: 20200275815Abstract: An autonomous vacuum cleaner that can reduce the footprint in a standby state is provided. An autonomous vacuum cleaner (1) includes a vacuum cleaner body (2) and a charging station (6). The charging station (6) has a hook (64) that latches a latched member (16) provided to a rear side of the vacuum cleaner body (2), and a lift driver (61) that raises and lowers the hook (64), and is configured to be capable of storing the vacuum cleaner body (2) in a standing state where the vacuum cleaner body (2) is hoisted and the rear side is oriented upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Takayuki FURUTA, Masahiro TOMONO, Hideaki YAMATO, Tomoaki YOSHIDA, Masaharu SHIMIZU, Yu OKUMURA, Kengo TODA, Takashi KODACHI, Kiyoshi IRIE, Yoshitaka HARA, Kazuki OGIHARA