Patents by Inventor Takeshi Maeda

Takeshi Maeda 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: 11975706
    Abstract: A driving control device that is mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor and an internal combustion engine as power sources includes a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a destination of the vehicle; acquire a past driving history from a point of departure to the destination; acquire a desired state of charge that is a state of charge of a battery desired when the vehicle arrives at the destination; estimate a predicted amount of regenerative energy based on the driving history; set a first section and a second section based on the predicted amount of regenerative energy and the desired state of charge; and control driving of the vehicle based on the first section and the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumi Kono, Tomoharu Maeda, Takaaki Tokura, Takeshi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20240142900
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt comprising: a substrate and an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the elastic layer comprising a cured rubber product including a cured silicone rubber product, an elastic modulus of the elastic layer at a temperature of 23° C. being 1.00 MPa or less, wherein when 1 g sample collected from the elastic layer is immersed in 50 ml of toluene at a temperature of 23° C. for 24 hours in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) K6258:2016, an extract of 3% by mass to 20% by mass with respect to the sample is extracted, and a burning time of the elastic layer in a burn test in accordance with UL94 VTM standard is 30 seconds or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE BABA, TAKESHI SUZUKI, MATSUTAKA MAEDA, ATSUSHI HORI, MASAHIRO TAKENAGA, HARUKI MORI, SHOTA INOUE
  • Patent number: 11962433
    Abstract: A switch device includes a plurality of communication ports; a switch unit configured to relay a frame, which has been transmitted from a function unit and to which information including an ID of a VLAN is added, to another function unit via a communication port; and a duplication unit configured to, when the diagnosis device is connected to another switch device, duplicate the frame to be relayed via a designated communication port among the plurality of communication ports, and generate a duplicate frame for diagnosis that is a frame obtained by adding, to a duplicate frame obtained through the duplication, specific information indicating that the duplicate frame for diagnosis should be transmitted to the diagnosis device. The switch unit outputs the duplicate frame for diagnosis generated by the duplication unit from a communication port corresponding to the other switch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Iwata, Tatsuya Izumi, Hirofumi Urayama, Tadashi Matsumoto, Darmawan Go, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Masashi Amesara, Hisashi Furukawa, Shu Ishizuka, Hideki Goto
  • Patent number: 11949705
    Abstract: An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa, Junichi Tsurumi, Jun Anzai
  • Publication number: 20230288456
    Abstract: A state determination device (10100) includes: a signal acquiring unit (1030) configured to acquire a signal corresponding to each of a plurality of electrical wiring lines constituting the electrical equipment X and indicating an energization state of each electrical wiring line in association with each electrical wiring line; and a state determination unit (1011) configured to determine an operating state of the target electrical equipment that can be distinguished by a combination of the energization states corresponding the plurality of electrical wiring lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro OHIRA, Shohei TAKARABE, Takeshi MAEDA, Keisuke MORI, Kohta HATAI, Akihiro HANAI, Naoya SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230248468
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a medical display system, a control method, and a control device which make it possible to prevent an unintended operation. Provided is a medical display system including: a display unit that provides a display on the basis of information output from a medical device; an imaging unit that images, as an imaging region, a part of a region from which at least the display unit is viewable; a voice acquisition unit that acquires a voice in the region from which at least the display unit is viewable; and a control unit that controls display information on the basis of the information output from the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, SHINJI KATSUKI, TAKESHI MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11612306
    Abstract: [Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Kuroda, Jun Arai, Masaru Usui, Takeshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11517395
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a surgical system that enable an operator to implement operation without a burden. A control unit controls a plurality of patterns of operations of a surgical instrument, and an acquisition unit obtains motion information indicating a motion of a user. Furthermore, the control unit controls the operations of the respective patterns corresponding to the motion information obtained by the acquisition unit in parallel using only a single operation performed by the user as a trigger. The present technology can be applied to a control device of a surgical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kana Matsuura, Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada
  • Publication number: 20220384022
    Abstract: Efficiency of a surgery-related service can be further improved. An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a surgery information acquisition unit (511) that acquires information regarding a surgery, and a display control unit (512, 513, and 514) that displays a surgery process area (620) indicating an entire process of the surgery and a progress of the entire process, and a work process area (630) indicating a work content of a part of the entire process and a progress of the work content. The display control unit calculates at least one of the progress of the entire process and the progress of the work content according to information regarding a surgery different from the surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu MATSUURA, Takeshi MAEDA, Takuya NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11512494
    Abstract: A case includes a first member and a second member configured in such a way that a closed space is formed between the first and second members in a state where the first and second members abut against each other. The first member includes a shaft portion extending toward the second member. The second member includes a shaft support portion including a circumferential wall portion that surrounds one end portion of the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an enlarged-diameter portion that is the one end portion melted in such a way as to be enlarged in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Inuzuka, Takeshi Maeda, Yasuo Kidena
  • Patent number: 11478133
    Abstract: A medical observation system includes a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is mutually coupled by joint parts, a medical observation apparatus attached on the multi-link structure, a control part configured to control the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus, and a user interface part by which a user inputs an instruction to change a visual field of the medical observation apparatus. When a user instructs to move a visual field of the medical observation apparatus vertically or horizontally, to rotate an oblique-viewing endoscope, or to change a magnification of the visual field via the user interface part, the control part controls the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada
  • Patent number: 11471024
    Abstract: A surgical imaging system including a surgical imaging device including identification information; a holding arm that holds and controls a position of the imaging device; a user interface configured to provide non-contact operation of the holding arm; and processing circuitry configured to control the holding arm according to the identification information and an output of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11439473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical control apparatus, a surgical control method, and a program that can prevent erroneous operations of surgical apparatuses when the surgical apparatuses are controlled with contactless inputs. A state estimation block (64) estimates a state of an operator recognized by a recognition block (61) on the basis of at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator. In accordance with the state estimated by the state estimation block (64), a command block (62) restricts a control operation of a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), or an image processing block (66) based on at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator recognized by the recognition block (61). The present invention is applicable to a surgical system and the like that have a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), an action recognition camera (13), a display (14), a control apparatus (15), a pair of glasses (17), a microphone (18), a marker, a foot switch (20), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11278369
    Abstract: To provide a control device, control method, and surgical system that can further improve safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11242496
    Abstract: A release agent for a hot-forging die, containing micronanobubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Takagaki, Yuzou Yamaga, Takeshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210369351
    Abstract: [Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei KURODA, Jun ARAI, Masaru USUI, Takeshi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210322125
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Takeshi MAEDA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11149808
    Abstract: An excitation operation brake includes a braking shaft, an armature that rotates integrally with the braking shaft, and a field core including a disc portion facing the armature. The disc portion includes an outer magnetic shielding portion and an inner magnetic shielding portion, which make a magnetic flux flowing through the disc portion bypass to the armature a plurality of times. The outer magnetic shielding portion includes a low-magnetic resistance path having a magnetic resistance smaller than the magnetic resistance of a magnetic path that bypasses to the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OGURA CLUTCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kidena, Keita Nakashima, Takeshi Maeda, Motoi Kato, Yoshihiro Kurosu, Hiroyasu Onai, Kosuke Murakami
  • Patent number: 11151804
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda, Seiji Wada, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11058509
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kokubo, Takeshi Maeda, Tatsumi Sakaguchi