Patents by Inventor Takehiko Shioda

Takehiko Shioda 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: 9528892
    Abstract: There is provided a measuring device capable of measuring a propulsion force and a loss force by using a simple method. A first detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge disposed such that detection directions are parallel to a longitudinal direction of a crank are connected, detecting bending deformation x occurring in the crank, and a second detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a third strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the crank and a fourth strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crank are connected, detecting bending deformation y and tensile deformation z occurring in the crank are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Nobuo Mioka, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda
  • Publication number: 20150355042
    Abstract: There is provided a measuring device capable of measuring a propulsion force and a loss force by using a simple method. A first detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge disposed such that detection directions are parallel to a longitudinal direction of a crank are connected, detecting bending deformation x occurring in the crank, and a second detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a third strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the crank and a fourth strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crank are connected, detecting bending deformation y and tensile deformation z occurring in the crank are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuteru KODAMA, Nobuo MIOKA, Ryujiro FUJITA, Takehiko SHIODA
  • Patent number: 9182304
    Abstract: A power meter includes a first measurement unit 7 that measures a force applied to a first pedal B322 and calculates predetermined first information (power and/or torque) on the first pedal B322, and a second measurement unit 6 that measures a force applied to a second pedal B321 and calculates second information (power and/or torque) on the second pedal B321, which is the same kind of the first information. The first measurement unit 7 transmits first information data indicating the first information to the second measurement unit 6, and the second measurement unit 6 adds the first information to the second measurement information and transmits an added value data indicating an added value obtained by adding the first information to the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Namiki, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Akio Fukushima, Yasuteru Kodama, Ryushin Kametani
  • Patent number: 9010201
    Abstract: A measurement module that measures force being applied to a man-powered machine includes: a strain sensor that detects strain of a crank of the bicycle configured to transmit force being applied from a user through the crank and one front gear selected among one or more front gears; an MM magnetic sensor that detects the crank passing through a predetermined position; and an MM control part. The MM control part calculates a rotation angle of the crank based on an elapsed time from a time the crank passes through the predetermined position that the sensor has detected, calculates force applied to the crank based on a strain amount of the crank that the strain sensor has detected, associates the rotation angle with the force applied to the crank to calculate distribution of the force applied from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Ryushin Kametani
  • Publication number: 20140283622
    Abstract: There are provided a versatile power meter, a power measurement method, a program and a recording medium. The power meter includes a first measurement unit 7 that measures a force applied to a first pedal B322 and calculates predetermined first information (power and/or torque) on the first pedal B322, and a second measurement unit 6 that measures a force applied to a second pedal B321 and calculate second information (power and/or torque) on the second pedal B321, which is the same kind of the first information. The first measurement unit 7 transmits first information data indicating the first information to the second measurement unit 6, and the second measurement unit 6 adds the first information to the second measurement information and transmits an added value data indicating an added vale obtained by adding the first information to the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Namiki, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Akio Fukushima, Yasuteru Kodama, Ryushin Kametani
  • Patent number: 8700067
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section (8) configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section (110) for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section (8) and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section (111) for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (110), and a mobile phone notification section (112) notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (111). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Akihiro Azuma, Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8700091
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (50); a transmission setting section (21) for registering, on the transmission setting database (50), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section (12) for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (50), the image data transmitting section (12) transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Syuji Daioku, Azusa Umemoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130205916
    Abstract: A measurement module that measures force being applied to a man-powered machine includes: a strain sensor that detects strain of a crank of the bicycle configured to transmit force being applied from a user through the crank and one front gear selected among one or more front gears; an MM magnetic sensor that detects the crank passing through a predetermined position; and an MM control part. The MM control part calculates a rotation angle of the crank based on an elapsed time from a time the crank passes through the predetermined position that the sensor has detected, calculates force applied to the crank based on a strain amount of the crank that the strain sensor has detected, associates the rotation angle with the force applied to the crank to calculate distribution of the force applied from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Ryushin Kametani
  • Publication number: 20130210583
    Abstract: There are provided a pedaling-goal setting apparatus, a pedaling-goal setting method, a pedaling-goal setting program and a recording medium having the pedaling-goal setting program storing thereon. The pedal-goal setting apparatus includes a riding posture detection sensor 5 that detects the riding posture of the cyclist, a slope detection sensor 6 that detects the slope of the ground, and the running manner detection sensor 7 that detects the running manner of the cyclist. A cycle computer 1 connected to these sensors calculates the optimal target value based on signals transmitted from these sensors 5 to 7 and target data, and displays the optimal target value on a display part 2, as a benchmark to correct pedaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryushin Kametani, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Yasuteru Kodama
  • Patent number: 8423052
    Abstract: It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8310545
    Abstract: A road view analyzing apparatus and a road view analyzing method that can obtain an accurate analysis result on a road view in front of a vehicle are provided. The road view analyzing apparatus includes a camera that is mounted on the vehicle to photograph a view in front of the vehicle, image dividing means for dividing the image of the view in front of the vehicle photographed by the camera into a plurality of areas with diagonal lines, and analyzing means for separately analyzing content of the image in each of the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Ryujiro Fujita, Hiroto Inoue, Naohiko Ichihara, Takehiko Shioda
  • Publication number: 20120088523
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section (8) configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section (110) for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section (8) and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section (111) for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (110), and a mobile phone notification section (112) notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (111). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicants: Pioneer Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Akihiro Azuma, Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110270935
    Abstract: A communication (on-board) device 10 of the invention has: a communication unit 110 communicating with a portable device 30; an unconfirmed information obtaining unit 120 obtaining unconfirmed information from the portable device 30 which a user has not confirmed at the portable device 30 at the time of communication establishment by the communication unit 110; and an information output unit 150 displaying or outputting audibly the obtained unconfirmed information. In this case, it is preferable that unread mail information regarding one or more electronic mails unread at the time of the communication establishment and/or missed call information regarding one or more missed calls received before the communication has been established be obtained as the unconfirmed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Tozaki, Takehiko Shioda, Kazunori Hashimoto, Kunihiro Minoshima, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20110258267
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device or the like is provided by which a content of an electronic mail can be notified by a driver without disturbing safety driving. A vehicle-mounted device 10 has: a communication unit 110 which communicates with a portable device having an electronic mail function; an electronic mail obtaining unit 120 which obtains from the portable device 30 an electronic mail received by the portable device 30; a mail output length calculation unit 150 which calculates mail output length which is output length of the obtained electronic mail text; a destination setting unit 180 which sets a destination; and a text output unit 220 which displays or outputs audibly the electronic mail text based on the mail output length calculated by the mail output length calculation unit 150 and a predetermined condition corresponding to the destination set by the destination setting unit 180.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Tozaki, Takehiko Shioda, Kazunori Hashimoto, Kunihiro Minoshima, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110237184
    Abstract: An on-board device 10 has: a communication unit 110 that carries out communication with a portable device 30 that has a transfer reservation function of place information indicating an arbitrary place; a place information acquisition unit 130 that acquires the place information from the portable device 30 after the communication is established; a place information determination unit 140 that determines a category of processing relating to the place information acquired by the place information acquisition unit 130; a place information processing unit 200 that at least registers a place or sets a destination using the place information based on the category determined by the place information determination unit 140; and a route guidance unit 180 that guides a route to a destination when the destination has been set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110213551
    Abstract: An on-board device 10 of the invention has: a destination setting unit 110 with which a destination is set; a route guidance unit 130 that provides route guidance for a vehicle until a parking location that corresponds to the destination; a destination information transmitter 140 that transmits destination information indicating the destination to a portable device 30; and an arrival confirmation information receiver 160 that receives from the portable device 30 arrival confirmation information indicating that the destination has been reached. The route guidance unit 130 ends the route guidance for the vehicle to the parking location when the destination information has been transmitted or the arrival confirmation information has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Shuji Daioku
  • Publication number: 20110205153
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (50); a transmission setting section (21) for registering, on the transmission setting database (50), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section (12) for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (50), the image data transmitting section (12) transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Syuji Daioku, Azusa Umemoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110183627
    Abstract: It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7834261
    Abstract: First, an extracting unit extracts chord progression of a tune to be reproduced. Then, a timing detector detects the timing of variation of the chord progression extracted by the extracting unit. Subsequently, an add-tone reproducing unit combines an add-tone with the tune to be reproduced according to the timing detected by the timing detector. The add-tone reproducing unit can also move a sound image to reproduce the tune or reproduce the tune as an arpeggio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Yasushi, Masatoshi Yanagidaira, Takehiko Shioda, Shinichi Gayama, Haruo Okada
  • Patent number: RE43379
    Abstract: A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in accordance with an input operation, and a music piece having the chord change degree corresponding to the set sensitivity word is detected in accordance with the chord change degree of each of the plurality of music pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Suzuki, Yasuteru Kodama, Satoshi Odagawa, Takehiko Shioda, Shinichi Gayama