Patents by Inventor Takeshi Ando
Takeshi Ando 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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Patent number: 10093265Abstract: A knee protecting air bag system includes an air bag, folded to be housed in a housing portion on a lower side of a body side member in front of a seated occupant. The air bag includes thickness controlling tethers that are provided so as to connect an occupant side wall portion and a body side wall portion when the air bag inflates completely. The thickness controlling tethers include an upper tether and a lower tether that are provided to extend into a belt-like shape along a left-to-right direction in upper and lower positions in the lower inflating portion when the air bag inflates completely. An abutment portion is formed between a portion where the upper tether is connected to the body side wall portion and a portion where the lower tether is connected to the body side wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Ando
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Patent number: 10086788Abstract: An airbag of a knee-protecting airbag device is mounted on a case together with an inflator with the aid of mounting means of the inflator. The case is provided with an airbag emergence opening at the lower end region. The airbag includes a vehicle body side panel, an occupant side panel, a mounting inflatable region which is located in a lower end region of the airbag as deployed and is secured to the case, and a knee-protecting region deployable in such a manner as to extend rearwardly and upwardly from the mounting inflatable region. The airbag further includes inside the mounting inflatable region a tether which joins the vehicle body side panel and occupant side panel for regulating a clearance between the vehicle body side panel and occupant side panel at airbag deployment.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Ando
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Publication number: 20180257231Abstract: A mobile robot includes a mobile robot body, a drawing unit provided at the mobile robot body and including a marker configured to draw a travel locus of the mobile robot on a travel plane, and a detector provided at the mobile robot body and configured to detect the travel locus drawn by the drawing unit. The mobile robot travels along the travel locus detected by the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Duyhinh NGUYEN, Takeshi ANDO, Hiroyuki SASAI
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Publication number: 20180210455Abstract: A robot and a method for controlling the robot are provided, each of which prevents the robot from hitting an obstacle when autonomous movement of the robot is controlled using an OSS. The method for controlling a robot including a plurality of rangefinder sensors, the robot being configured to autonomously move based on a map created using one or more measurement data portions of the plurality of rangefinder sensors. The method includes: deleting some of the one or more measurement data portions of the plurality of rangefinder sensors; integrating the one or more measurement data portions remaining after the deleting into an integrated measurement data portion; and determining the integrated measurement data portion to be a measurement data portion of one or more virtual rangefinder sensors which are fewer in number than the number of the plurality of rangefinder sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Takeshi ANDO, Duyhinh NGUYEN, Hiroyuki SASAI
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Patent number: 9971433Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel member that is excellent in terms of suppression of visibility of a transparent electrode and has low total reflection for visible light, and a touch panel and a touch panel display device having the touch panel member. The touch panel member of the present invention comprises, in order, at least a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, and a protective layer provided so as to cover the transparent electrode, the protective layer comprising three or more layers having different refractive indices, all of the different refractive index layers of the protective layer satisfying a specific expression, and the protective layer satisfying another specific expression.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takeshi Ando, Hideyuki Nakamura, Shigekazu Suzuki, Satoru Yamada, Kentarou Toyooka
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Patent number: 9970111Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing vessel configured to be vacuumed; a holding unit configured to hold a plurality of substrates and to be inserted into or separated from the processing vessel; a gas supply unit configured to supply gas into the processing vessel; a plasma generation box partitioned and formed by a plasma partition wall; an inductively coupled electrode located at an outer sidewall of the plasma generation box along its length direction; a high frequency power supply connected to the inductively coupled electrode through a feed line; and a ground electrode located outside the plasma generation box and between the processing vessel and the inductively coupled electrode and arranged in the vicinity of the outer sidewall of the plasma generation box or at least partially in contact with the outer sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Kohei Fukushima, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Yutaka Motoyama, Koichi Shimada, Takeshi Ando
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Publication number: 20180037860Abstract: A liquid transferring apparatus sucks up or discharges liquid by moving piston of syringe vertically including first motor which actuates piston by supporting flange pulling-up portion to be vertically movable and by pulling up flange portion of piston from below via flange pulling-up portion; second motor which supports flange pushing portion to be vertically movable and actuates piston so as to push flange portion of piston from above via flange pushing portion; cylinder fixing portion which fixes cylinder of syringe; and mechanical frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: HISATO NAKAJIMA, TAKESHI ANDO, NORIHIRO SHIBATA
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Patent number: 9732314Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells of the present disclosure includes: a cabinet that has a main surface and a side surface, the main surface having a window; a main surface aspiration port disposed at the main surface of the cabinet; and a side surface aspiration port disposed at the side surface of the cabinet. In the cross section of the cabinet taken along the horizontal direction, a first vessel supplying part for supplying a first vessel is disposed at a midportion of the cabinet, and a second vessel supplying part for supplying a second vessel is disposed at an inner peripheral portion of the cabinet. The first vessel supplying part has a first lid capable of entirely covering the first vessel supplying part. The first vessel has no lid. The second vessel supplying part has no lid. The second vessel has a second lid.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Norihiro Shibata, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Takeshi Ando
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Publication number: 20170213533Abstract: A dongle device includes a dongle input terminal connected to an MIDI output terminal of an audio-music device, a dongle output terminal connected to an MIDI input terminal of the audio-music device, communication means exchanging various electronic information between the audio-music device and the other electronic device via the dongle input terminal and the dongle output terminal, and a power-supply circuit which obtains power from a signal line in the MIDI scheme from the audio-music device via the dongle input terminal, supplies the power to the communication means, and outputs the power to the MIDI input terminal of the audio-music device via the dongle output terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Quicco Sound CorporationInventors: Makoto Hiroi, Takeshi Ando
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Publication number: 20170204359Abstract: A cell culture apparatus includes a measurement-position designating unit, an image processing unit, and a subculture-timing determining unit. The measurement-position designating unit designates measurement positions in the culture vessel. The image processing unit calculates a confluent rate as a proportion of an area occupied by the cells in the observation image, of the positions designated by the measurement-position designating unit. The subculture-timing determining unit determines the subculture timing of the culture vessel, based on the confluent rate calculated in the image processing unit. More specifically, the subculture-timing determining unit determines the subculture timing, based on a first threshold value with respect to an average value of the entire measurement area on the observation image, and a second threshold value with respect to at least one measurement area on the observation image. The second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: TAKESHI ANDO, TOSHIAKI YAMAUCHI, NORIHIRO SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20170203290Abstract: A pipette tip includes a main body section; and a straight pipe section disposed at the leading end of the main body section, in which the inner diameter of the straight pipe section is 0.8 mm to 1.5 mm inclusive, and the length of the straight pipe section is 5 mm to 15 mm inclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: TAKESHI ANDO, TOSHINORI HIROSE, TOSHIAKI YAMAUCHI, NORIHIRO SHIBATA
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Patent number: 9650599Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium, including: a replacer that replaces the culture medium in a culture vessel held by a holder; a measurer that measures a pH of the culture medium in the culture vessel; and an instructor that instructs the replacer to replace the culture medium in the culture vessel, wherein the instructor gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than a predetermined pH threshold at a first replacement of the culture medium, and gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than the predetermined pH threshold and the interval is less than an interval of a previous replacement of the culture medium at second and subsequent replacements of the culture medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Toshinori Hirose, Soichiro Fujioka, Norihiro Shibata, Osamu Mizuno, Toshiaki Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20170057447Abstract: A knee protecting air bag system includes an air bag, folded to be housed in a housing portion on a lower side of a body side member in front of a seated occupant, including a plurality of thickness controlling tethers that are provided so as to connect an occupant side wall portion and a body side wall portion when the air bag inflates completely, wherein: the plurality of thickness controlling tethers includes an upper tether and a lower tether that are provided to extend into a belt-like shape along a left-to-right direction in an upper and lower positions in the lower inflating portion when the air bag inflates completely; and an abutment portion that is formed between a portion where the upper tether is connected to the body side wall portion and a portion where the lower tether is connected to the body side wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Takeshi ANDO
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Patent number: 9580040Abstract: A lower limb protecting air bag includes: a main body inflation part; an end side inflation part; a bending part configured to bend the end side inflation part to project backward from the main body inflation part in inflation completion; and a connecting element configured to connect together the end side inflation part and the main body inflation part so that the bent state of the end side inflation part in inflation completion is maintained, wherein: the main body inflation part and the end side inflation part are configured to inflate substantially in a plate shape to separate a front side wall disposed on the back side and a back side wall disposed on the front side when the air bag is developed flat; and the bending part includes a seam part formed by superimposing and connecting together the front side wall and the back side wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori Komatsu, Takeshi Ando, Hiroki Imaeda, Tetsuya Ogata
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Publication number: 20170031473Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a touch panel member that is excellent in terms of suppression of visibility of metal wiring and has little reduction in line width of metal wiring when produced, a touch panel and touch panel display device comprising the touch panel member, and a process for producing the touch panel member. A touch panel member comprises a support, metal wiring above at least one face of the support, and a layer comprising a metal-organic framework on at least part of the surface of the metal wiring, wherein the layer comprising the metal-organic framework has an average thickness of 10 to 5,000 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuzo FUJIKI, Takeshi ANDO
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Publication number: 20160298069Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells of the present disclosure includes: a cabinet that has a main surface and a side surface, the main surface having a window; a main surface aspiration port disposed at the main surface of the cabinet; and a side surface aspiration port disposed at the side surface of the cabinet. In the cross section of the cabinet taken along the horizontal direction, a first vessel supplying part for supplying a first vessel is disposed at a midportion of the cabinet, and a second vessel supplying part for supplying a second vessel is disposed at an inner peripheral portion of the cabinet. The first vessel supplying part has a first lid capable of entirely covering the first vessel supplying part. The first vessel has no lid. The second vessel supplying part has no lid. The second vessel has a second lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: NORIHIRO SHIBATA, TOSHIAKI YAMAUCHI, TAKESHI ANDO
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Publication number: 20160288758Abstract: An airbag of a knee-protecting airbag device is mounted on a case together with an inflator with the aid of mounting means of the inflator. The case is provided with an airbag emergence opening at the lower end region. The airbag includes a vehicle body side panel, an occupant side panel, a mounting inflatable region which is located in a lower end region of the airbag as deployed and is secured to the case, and a knee-protecting region deployable in such a manner as to extend rearwardly and upwardly from the mounting inflatable region. The airbag further includes inside the mounting inflatable region a tether which joins the vehicle body side panel and occupant side panel for regulating a clearance between the vehicle body side panel and occupant side panel at airbag deployment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Takeshi ANDO
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Publication number: 20160288757Abstract: An airbag of a knee-protecting airbag device is mounted on a case together with an inflator with the aid of mounting means of the inflator. The airbag includes a vehicle body side panel, an occupant side panel, a mounting inflatable region which is located in a lower end region of the airbag as deployed and is secured to the case, and a knee-protecting region. The airbag further includes a tether which is joined to the occupant side panel in the mounting inflatable region of the airbag by the lower end inside the airbag for preventing a sagging movement of the vehicle body side panel in a region of the mounting inflatable region distant from the inflator in a left and right direction at airbag deployment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Takeshi ANDO
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Publication number: 20160274695Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel member that is excellent in terms of suppression of visibility of a transparent electrode and has low total reflection for visible light, and a touch panel and a touch panel display device having the touch panel member. The touch panel member of the present invention comprises, in order, at least a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, and a protective layer provided so as to cover the transparent electrode and having a thickness of 0.04 to 10 ?m, at least part of the protective layer having a refractive index that decreases continuously from the transparent substrate side toward the side opposite to the transparent substrate, and the protective layer satisfying specific expressions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takeshi ANDO, Hideyuki NAKAMURA, Shigekazu SUZUKI, Satoru YAMADA
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Patent number: D788314Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ando, Toshinori Hirose, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Norihiro Shibata