Patents by Inventor Takeshi Fujita
Takeshi Fujita 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: 20220090290Abstract: A quartz glass crucible 1 having a cylindrical side wall portion 10a, a bottom portion 10b, and a corner portion 10c connecting the side wall portion 10a and the bottom portion 10b to each other includes a transparent layer 11 made of quartz glass, and a bubble layer 12 made of quartz glass and formed outside the transparent layer 11. A ratio of an infrared transmittance of the corner portion 10c at a maximum thickness position of the corner portion 10c to an infrared transmittance of the side wall portion 10a is 0.3 or more and 0.99 or less, and an absolute value of a rate of change in infrared transmittance in a height direction along a wall surface of the crucible from a center of the bottom portion 10b toward an upper end of the side wall portion 10a is 3%/cm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Takeshi FUJITA, Ken KITAHARA, Tomokazu KATANO, Eriko KITAHARA
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Patent number: 11250574Abstract: A sensor system includes: a transmission device that includes a sensor which asynchronously outputs detection data including time series information; and a reception device connected to the transmission device via a transmission line. The detection data includes coordinate information, and the transmission device includes an expansion unit configured to expand a value of the coordinate information within a range of the number of bits assigned to the coordinate information, in a case where the detection data is acquired from the sensor, and a transmission unit configured to transmit expanded detection data in which the value of the coordinate information is expanded by the expansion unit to the reception device via the transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHInventors: Kozo Kajiwara, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20220046377Abstract: A sound signal processing device includes: a vocal remover which generates a first output signal based on first-channel and second-channel sound signals and a first coefficient indicating a vocal bandwidth to be removed; a surround sound processor which generates a second output signal by adding a surround sound effect to the first output signal; an amplifier which amplifies a signal at an amplification factor that is based on a second coefficient; a synthesizer which synthesizes the second output signal with one of the first-channel and second-channel sound signals, and synthesizes a signal that is the second output signal inverted with another one of the first-channel and second-channel sound signals; and a coefficient determination unit which sets the second coefficient such that the amplification factor, used when the vocal bandwidth to be removed is greater than a first bandwidth, is greater than the amplification factor for the first bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Kai KOBAYASHI, Takeshi FUJITA, Shuji MIYASAKA
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Publication number: 20220009815Abstract: An object is to provide an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a silica glass crucible, both allowing a stable silica powder layer to be formed in a mold in a short period of time. One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for manufacturing a silica glass crucible, by forming a silica powder layer on the inside of a rotating mold, which comprises a rotating means for rotating the mold as well as a supply means for feeding a silica powder to the inside of the mold. In this manufacturing apparatus, the supply means has a feeding part for feeding the silica powder in a manner releasing it to fall to a position away from the inner wall surface of the mold on the inside of the mold, as well as a dispersing part for changing, to one toward the inner wall surface side, at the fall position, the direction in which the silica powder fed from the feeding part moves, while also widening the angle at which the silica powder disperses toward the inner wall surface at the fall position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Takeshi FUJITA, Masanori FUKUI
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Publication number: 20210399802Abstract: Clothing equipment having a visual light communication emitter arranged to communicate a status of the clothing equipment, includes a light emitter arranged to emit flash light which is modulated at at least one target frequency in a dedicated non-visible spectrum, the light emitter including three fixed emitting portions distant from each other by predetermined distances, so as to authenticate the status of the clothing equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Remy BENDAHAN, Sylvain Bougnoux, Yuta Nakano, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20210400476Abstract: A visual light communication emitter for a vehicle, arranged to communicate a status of the vehicle, includes a first light emitter arranged to emit flash light which is modulated at a first target frequency in a dedicated non-visible spectrum, and a second light emitter arranged to emit flash light which is modulated at a second target frequency in the dedicated non-visible spectrum. A difference between the first target frequency and the second target frequency is predetermined, so as to authenticate the status of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Remy BENDAHAN, Sylvain Bougnoux, Yuta Nakano, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20210379402Abstract: A particle beam therapy apparatus has a position and posture setter that moves a movable body, that is at least one of the irradiation nozzle and the treatment table. A movement path of the movable body is determined when adapting the positional posture of the movable body from one condition among a plurality of prescribed conditions to another condition. An evaluation value is obtained for adapting the positional posture of the movable body to each of a plurality of prescribed conditions. This evaluation value is for a case of moving the movable body according to the movement path. A setting order is determined for adapting the positional posture of the movable body to each prescribed condition based on the evaluation value; and the positional posture of the movable body is adapted to each of the plurality of prescribed conditions by moving the movable body according to the determined movement path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Masanori SUZUKI, Takuto YAGIHASHI, Takeshi FUJITA, Isao FURUSE, Yuko OKADA
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Publication number: 20210363962Abstract: A windmill blade includes a leading edge protector provided at a leading edge portion of a blade main body including a skin surrounding a hollow space. The leading edge protector is fixed to the skin from the inner side of the hollow space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Takeshi FUJITA, Kentaro SHINDO, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Toshiyuki HIRANO, Atsushi YUGE
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Publication number: 20210363963Abstract: A windmill blade includes a blade main body and a leading edge protector. The leading edge protector includes a conductive plate covering a leading edge, and a conductive mesh member connected to the conductive plate along a blade chord direction of the windmill blade. The conductive mesh member is provided with a plurality of holes. A skin or an adhesive at least partially enters the plurality of holes, so that the leading edge protector is fixed to the skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Takeshi FUJITA, Keisuke Ota, Kentaro SHINDO, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Toshiyuki HIRANO, Atsushi YUGE
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Patent number: 11124658Abstract: Provided is an infrared-reflective coating composition that includes: a scale-like infrared-reflective pigment; and a resin component, wherein the pigment includes a layered body that has dielectric layers and a metal thin film layer layered in an alternate fashion with the dielectric layer on the outermost layer; the dielectric layer is formed from one or more materials such as titanium dioxide; the metal thin film layer is formed from a silver compound; a film thickness of the metal thin film layer is 5 to 15 nm; a film thickness of the dielectric layer is ((N?)/(4r))±20 nm (N=1, 2 or 3) wherein wavelength ? of incident light is 250 to 980 nm, and r is a refractive index of the dielectric layer; and a proportion of the infrared-reflective pigment having a particle diameter of 1 ?m or smaller is 10% by volume or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: NIPPON PAINT HOLDINGS CO., LTDInventors: Takeshi Fujita, Isamu Onishi, Yoichi Adachi, Go Suzuki, Kazuyuki Kamaya
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Publication number: 20210238445Abstract: A water repellant and oil repellant film composition including a siloxane compound represented by a specific formula or a cured product of the siloxane compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: TOAGOSEI CO. LTD.Inventors: Naomasa FURUTA, Takeshi FUJITA
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Patent number: 11058894Abstract: To provide a particle beam therapy device that expands an irradiation field while avoiding an increase in size of a scanning unit or an irradiation device including the scanning unit. A shift unit 36 is provided downstream of a scanning unit 34. The shift unit 36 deflects a carbon beam as a particle beam to shift the irradiation field, thereby forming an expanded irradiation field. The shift unit 36 includes a first shift electromagnet 42 that shifts the irradiation field in a Y direction and a second shift electromagnet 44 that shifts the irradiation field in an X direction. The scanning unit is dynamically controlled, and the shift unit 36 is statically controlled.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tomokazu Shimakura, Chihiro Nakashima, Satoshi Totake, Kazuo Tomida, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20210181106Abstract: A measurement method and a measurement apparatus are capable of measuring the transmittance of a quartz crucible accurately. A measurement method includes: emitting a parallel light from a light source disposed on a side of one wall surface of a quartz crucible toward a predetermined measurement point of the quartz crucible; measuring reception levels of light transmitted through the quartz crucible at a plurality of positions by disposing a detector at the plurality of positions on a circle centered around an exit point of the parallel light on the other wall surface of the quartz crucible; and calculating a transmittance of the quartz crucible at the predetermined measurement point based on a plurality of the reception levels of the transmitted light measured at the plurality of positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunobu SHIMIZU, Keiichi TAKANASHI, Takeshi FUJITA, Eriko KITAHARA, Masanori FUKUI
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Publication number: 20210158538Abstract: A sensor system includes: a transmission device that includes a sensor which asynchronously outputs detection data including time series information; and a reception device connected to the transmission device via a transmission line. The detection data includes coordinate information, and the transmission device includes an expansion unit configured to expand a value of the coordinate information within a range of the number of bits assigned to the coordinate information, in a case where the detection data is acquired from the sensor, and a transmission unit configured to transmit expanded detection data in which the value of the coordinate information is expanded by the expansion unit to the reception device via the transmission line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kozo Kajiwara, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20200261745Abstract: To provide a particle beam therapy device that expands an irradiation field while avoiding an increase in size of a scanning unit or an irradiation device including the scanning unit. A shift unit 36 is provided downstream of a scanning unit 34. The shift unit 36 deflects a carbon beam as a particle beam to shift the irradiation field, thereby forming an expanded irradiation field. The shift unit 36 includes a first shift electromagnet 42 that shifts the irradiation field in a Y direction and a second shift electromagnet 44 that shifts the irradiation field in an X direction. The scanning unit is dynamically controlled, and the shift unit 36 is statically controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Tomokazu SHIMAKURA, Chihiro NAKASHIMA, Satoshi TOTAKE, Kazuo TOMIDA, Takeshi FUJITA
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Patent number: 10740425Abstract: A content administration system receives user identification information from a terminal device via the Internet. The content administration system then specifies content administration information storage means corresponding to the received user identification information. The content administration system acquires object path information correlated to sharing permission information from a content administration information storage means of another unspecified user. The content administration system then acquires an icon image from the icon image storage means. The content administration system then makes display control information for the content administration screen containing the icon leading to the object based on the acquired icon image and the acquired object path information. The content administration system transmits the made display control information to the terminal device via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fujita, Mayuko Hattori, Shuji Masumoto, Tsutomu Kawachi
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Patent number: 10722917Abstract: Provided is a multi-layer coating film including a base film and an infrared-reflective film, wherein the infrared-reflective film includes a scale-like infrared-reflective pigment and a resin; the pigment includes a layered body that has dielectric layers and a metal layer layered in an alternate fashion with the dielectric layer on the outermost layer; the dielectric layer is formed from one or more materials such as titanium dioxide; the metal layer is made from a silver compound; a film thickness of the metal layer is 5 to 15 nm; a film thickness of the dielectric layer is ((N?)/(4r))±20 nm (N is 1, 2 or 3, wavelength ? is 250 to 980 nm, r is the refractive index of the dielectric layer); the infrared reflectance R1 of the base film is smaller than 80% and is smaller than the infrared reflectance R2 of the infrared-reflective film.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: NIPPON PAINT HOLDINGS CO., LTDInventors: Takeshi Fujita, Isamu Onishi, Yoichi Adachi, Go Suzuki, Kazuyuki Kamaya
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Patent number: 10715666Abstract: While using a communication system in which groups of destinations on a network are managed, and any one of the groups can be specified as a destination, if a group needs to be changed, added, or deleted, updating the system on the network is required, which increases load of maintenance. To address such a problem, an operation input receiving unit of a terminal receives selection of a group including destination information that represents destination candidates of communication. A destination management unit of the terminal determines a destination among the destination candidates represented by the destination information included in the selected group. A sending and receiving unit of the terminal makes a request for starting communication with the determined destination, to a management system.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuhiro Fujii, Takeshi Fujita, Yoshinaga Kato, Kiyoshi Kasatani
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Patent number: 10625980Abstract: An elevator device includes an operation control unit (18), a storage unit (22), a transmission unit (23), a determination unit (25), and a recovery unit (26). When an inspection operation is interrupted by the operation control unit (18), the transmission unit (23) transmits inspection data stored in the storage unit (22) to a plurality of specific devices (20). The determination unit (25) determines whether or not recovery conditions are satisfied on the basis of a plurality of responses from the devices (20) to which the transmission unit (23) transmits the inspection data. For example, the recovery unit (26) restores a normal operation when the determination unit (25) determines that the recovery conditions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Misubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yutaka Matsueda, Akihiko Watanabe, Norihiro Chotoku, Masaki Hikichi, Masafumi Etoh, Masafumi Ozawa, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20200045176Abstract: While using a communication system in which groups of destinations on a network are managed, and any one of the groups can be specified as a destination, if a group needs to be changed, added, or deleted, updating the system on the network is required, which increases load of maintenance. To address such a problem, an operation input receiving unit of a terminal receives selection of a group including destination information that represents destination candidates of communication. A destination management unit of the terminal determines a destination among the destination candidates represented by the destination information included in the selected group. A sending and receiving unit of the terminal makes a request for starting communication with the determined destination, to a management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2016Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Atsuhiro FUJII, Takeshi FUJITA, Yoshinaga KATO, Kiyoshi KASATANI