Patents by Inventor Takeshi Honda

Takeshi Honda 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).

  • Publication number: 20240113577
    Abstract: A rotor includes stacked core plates, a hole, and a magnet inserted into the hole. A holding core plate has a through hole as part of the hole, a protrusion protruding inwardly from an inner surface of the through hole and being in contact with the magnet, and a displacement permission portion located in an opposite direction to a protrusion direction of the protrusion and permitting displacement of the protrusion in the opposite direction. The rotor includes at least one of a magnet-side chamfered portion in which the front side edge portion of the magnet is chamfered or a protrusion-side chamfered portion in which the tip end edge portion of the protrusion is chamfered. A sum of lengths of the magnet-side and protrusion-side chamfered portions is equal to or longer than a length of the protrusion in the protrusion direction as the rotor is viewed from the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Hideki TSUJI, Yuya DANJO
  • Publication number: 20240113576
    Abstract: A rotor includes core plates, a hole, and a magnet in the hole. The core plates include a first core plate and a second core plate frontward of the first core plate. The first core plate includes a first hole, a first protrusion protruding inward of the first hole, and a first portion located in an opposite direction to a protrusion direction of the first protrusion as viewed from the axial direction and permitting deformation of the first protrusion in the opposite direction. The second core plate includes a second hole, and at least one of a recess recessed in the opposite direction and overlapping the first protrusion as viewed in the axial direction, or a second portion located in the opposite direction with respect to the first protrusion as viewed in the axial direction and permitting deformation of an inner surface of the second hole in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Hideki TSUJI, Yuya DANJO
  • Patent number: 11946112
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, at least one specific MnS particle group is present, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specific composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, less than 30% (and 0% or greater) bainite, and less than 2.0% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takeshi Murai, Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240080971
    Abstract: A circuit board for an image forming apparatuses to which a first integrated circuit or a second integrated circuit is provided, comprising an electric part provided to a first surface of the circuit board, a first attachment part provided to the first surface, to which at least one terminal of the first integrated circuit is attachable, a first conductor pattern formed on the first surface and configured to constitute at least a portion of a first wiring which connects the first attachment part and the electric part, a second attachment part provided to a second surface opposite to the first surface of the circuit board, to which at least one terminal of the second integrated circuit is attachable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: TAKESHI HONDA
  • Patent number: 11855486
    Abstract: A stator core includes a core back having an annular shape around a central axis, teeth extending outward from the core back in a radial direction, and an inner peripheral surface located inside the core back in the radial direction and extending from an upper end to a lower end of the core back around the central axis. The core back includes a plastically deformable portion having an annular shape around the central axis and disposed below the core back in the axial direction. At least a portion of the plastically deformable portion has a different distance from the central axis than another portion of the core back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Honda
  • Patent number: 11807486
    Abstract: A sensor control apparatus includes a control unit, a plurality of sensors connected in series to the control unit. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a detector configured to perform a detection operation based on a first voltage applied from the control unit, a first switch provided on an application path for applying a voltage, a second switch provided on a supply path for supplying the voltage applied from the control unit to a sensor connected in a subsequent stage, and a conduction control unit. The control unit brings the first switch into conduction and cut off the second switch in a case where the voltage on the application path is the first voltage, and cuts off the first switch and bring the second switch into conduction in a case where the voltage on the application path is a second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Arima, Takeshi Honda, Mitsuhiro Sugeta
  • Publication number: 20230198066
    Abstract: A battery pack comprises a battery and a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) utilized to detect a voltage and a temperature of the battery. The FPC comprises a substrate having a front surface and a back surface, a thermistor which detects a temperature of the battery, temperature detection lines and voltage detection lines. The temperature detection lines are electrically connected to a thermistor and arranged between the back surface and the battery. The voltage detection lines are arranged on the front surface so as to overlap the temperature detection lines in a case that the FPC is observed in a plane view in a transmissive manner from a back surface to a front surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro MURAKAMI, Hironobu Kawashima, Hiromi Adachi, Takeshi Honda, Ryo Yamakawa, Hidemitsu Watanabe, Masahiro Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11638000
    Abstract: A medical observation apparatus includes: an imaging device configured to capture an observation target to obtain a captured right eye medical image and a captured left eye medical image; and circuitry configured to: acquire positions of at least two points in the observation target, the positions being determined based on predetermined operation on the observation target; and cause the captured right eye medical image, the captured left eye medical image, and an annotation image, to be displayed on a display screen of a display device, the annotation image indicating a distance between two points at the acquired positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Takeshi Honda
  • Publication number: 20230006488
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a rotor rotatable about a central axis; and a stator located radially outside the rotor. The rotor includes: a rotor core that includes a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates laminated in an axial direction and that has a plurality of accommodation holes; and a plurality of magnets respectively accommodated in the plurality of accommodation holes. The rotor core includes: a first recess recessed from a first core end face on a first axial side to a second axial side; a first swaged part provided on a bottom surface of the first recess; and a first protrusion that protrudes toward each of the magnets in a direction in which an inner peripheral edge of each of the accommodation holes intersects an axial direction, the first protrusion butting against a side face of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi TOMINAGA, Yuta KIMURA, Takeshi HONDA, Yosuke TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220166295
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator core plate including a protrusion extending radially outward from a disk-shaped main body, includes a punching a portion of a steel sheet in a shape including at least a portion of an outer shape of the protrusion to form at least the portion of the outer shape of the protrusion, and punching the steel sheet in a shape continuous with the outer shape of the protrusion formed in the steel sheet to form the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Takeshi HONDA
  • Publication number: 20220166266
    Abstract: A stator core includes a first core back portion and an adjacent first core back portion that are in contact with each other on a radially outer side and on a radially inner side sandwiching a vertex of a first protrusion, and a second core back portion and an adjacent second core back portion are in contact with each other on a radially outer side and on a radially inner side sandwiching a vertex of a second protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Takeshi HONDA
  • Publication number: 20220158508
    Abstract: A stator core includes a core back having an annular shape around a central axis, teeth extending outward from the core back in a radial direction, and an inner peripheral surface located inside the core back in the radial direction and extending from an upper end to a lower end of the core back around the central axis. The core back includes a plastically deformable portion having an annular shape around the central axis and disposed below the core back in the axial direction. At least a portion of the plastically deformable portion has a different distance from the central axis than another portion of the core back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Takeshi HONDA
  • Patent number: 11334043
    Abstract: An operating terminal includes: a connected-device information transmitting unit transmitting first connected-device information to another operating terminal, the first connected-device information being information on a facility device connected to the operating terminal; a connected-device information obtaining unit obtaining second connected-device information from the another operating terminal, the second connected-device information being information on a facility device connected to the another operating terminal; an operation receiving unit receiving an operation for being performed on a facility device connected to the operating terminal and a facility device connected to the another operating terminal; and an air conditioning control command transmitting unit determining, from the first connected-device information and the second connected-device information, a destination of a control command and transmitting the control command to the destination, the control command representing content of an op
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Honda
  • Patent number: 11316416
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Nakahara, Keisuke Saito, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11251685
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor core, the method including laminating first laminated steel plates in an axial direction. The first laminated steel plates each include a plurality of flake portions arranged in a circumferential direction with gaps between each other and a plurality of protrusions protruding radially outward from an outer side surface of a base portion and each having at least a portion located in the gap between the flake portions. The method further includes fixing the base portions to each other and fixing the flake portions to each other. The method further includes removing the protrusions of the laminated steel plates radially outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Nakahara, Takeshi Honda, Junichi Uno, Takayuki Migita, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Tsuyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11217827
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery is provided. The method includes suctioning a part of a strip-shaped separator in a plurality of holes of a winding core in a peripheral surface of the winding core; preparing a wound body by winding strip-shaped positive and negative electrodes along with the strip-shaped separator around the winding core; and preparing an electrode body by releasing the suction in the holes and pulling out the winding core from the wound body, in which the battery includes a battery container configured to accommodate the electrode body, the holes are communicated inside with the winging core having a hollow structure, and the winding core has an outside diameter of 2 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Shibata, Akira Sasaki, Takeshi Honda
  • Patent number: 11182897
    Abstract: A medical image processing device includes circuitry configured to: calculate relative information including relative positional relation of a pathologically diagnosed position in a subject with respect to an observation image of the subject captured by an imager, by using data on the observation image and pathological diagnosis information on the subject; and generate, based on the relative information, data on a displayed observation image resulting from addition of the pathological diagnosis information to the data on the observation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Takeshi Honda
  • Patent number: 11165293
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core in which magnetic steel plates widening in a radial direction with respect to a central axis of the rotor core are laminated in an axial direction, and magnets provided to the rotor core. Each of the magnetic steel plates includes a base portion positioned outside the central axis in the radial direction and piece-shaped portions each spaced by a gap from an outer side in the radial direction of the base portion and arranged in a circumferential direction of the base portion at predetermined intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitagaki, Takeshi Honda
  • Patent number: 11095196
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a motor core includes laminating in an axial direction steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis, each of the laminate steel plates including a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, annular portions separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and connecting portions at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction to extend in the radial direction and connect the base portion and the annular portions, the annular portions including coupling portions adjacent to both circumferential sides of the connecting portions, and cutting at least one of the two coupling portions adjacent to one connecting portion in the circumferential direction from an outer side to an inner side of the laminate steel plates in the radial direction with respect to the laminate steel plates that are laminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Honda, Hiroshi Kitagaki
  • Patent number: 11067043
    Abstract: An intake manifold including a surge tank having an inlet and a plurality of outlets extended along a first direction, and configured to form a space having a cross section larger than the inlet between the inlet and the plurality of outlets and a plurality of branch pipes. The space is formed by a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first surface extended from a first end of the bottom surface to a first end of the upper surface, and a second surface extended from a second end of the bottom surface to a second end of the upper surface. The inlet is provided at a substantially central portion in a first direction on the first surface, and the bottom surface includes a swelling portion swelled upwardly at a substantially central portion in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Itagaki, Takeshi Honda