Patents by Inventor Takuya Nomura
Takuya Nomura 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: 11319694Abstract: An electric construction machine is provided that can travel from a work location to a charging location, and can suppress deterioration of work efficiency. The electric hydraulic excavator includes: a battery device (19); an electric motor (28) that is driven by power of the battery device (19); a hydraulic pump (29) that is driven by the electric motor (28); a travelling hydraulic motor (7) and a work hydraulic actuator that are driven by a hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump (29); a controller (37); and a display device (24).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Takagi, Masayuki Yunoue, Takuya Nomura, Yuki Hirose
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Patent number: 11305764Abstract: An object detection apparatus applied to a vehicle having a sensor unit mounted on a predetermined member provided to the vehicle, the sensor unit being provided with an object detection sensor that detects position information of an object present around the vehicle and a tilt sensor that detects a tilt angle as inclination with respect to a predetermined direction, and performing a process of detecting the object based on the position information of the object detected by the object detection sensor, the object detection apparatus comprising a detachment state determination section that determines a detachment state of the predetermined member based on the tilt angle detected by the tilt sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Noro, Masakazu Takeichi, Takuya Nomura
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Publication number: 20220113391Abstract: A plurality of ultrasonic sensors are configured such that search ultrasonic waves transmitted from the respective ultrasonic sensors have mutually different characteristics that are mutually distinguishable. A transmission timing setting unit is configured to set a transmission timing of transmitting the search ultrasonic wave for each of the ultrasonic sensors, such that the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmit the respective search ultrasonic waves at respective transmission timings that are mutually different. The transmission timing setting unit is configured to set a delay time between a first transmission timing, which is a transmission timing of the first ultrasonic sensor, and a second transmission timing, which is a transmission timing of the second ultrasonic sensor, with the delay time being determined based on a positional relationship between the first ultrasonic sensor and the second ultrasonic sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Syoya ISHIDA, Takuya NOMURA, Satoru NORO
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Publication number: 20220049467Abstract: A battery-operated work machine is provided which can perform a work while avoiding such a situation that the work machine cannot reach charging equipment. When the remaining capacity of a battery becomes lower than a first threshold value set in advance, a controller controls an inverter such that the revolution speed of an electric motor is kept at a target revolution speed and controls a first notification device to operate, and besides switches a traveling motor to a travel first speed side, in which the displacement volume is a large volume, irrespective of an input from a traveling mode instruction device, when the remaining capacity of the battery becomes lower than a first threshold value set in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Yuki HIROSE, Masayuki YUNOUE, Tatsuo TAKISHITA, Wataru TAKAGI, Takuya NOMURA
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Publication number: 20220003856Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor (10), that transmits probe waves which are ultrasonic waves and acquires detection waves including reflected waves which have been reflected from surrounding objects, includes a transmitter/receiver (12) that transmits the probe waves and acquires the detection waves, a detection wave processing section (13) that executes processing for passing a predetermined frequency band which includes the frequency of the probe waves, an amplitude measurement section (14) which measures the amplitude of the detection waves, and a judgement section (17) which judges whether there is adherence of foreign matter on the transmitter/receiver, based on a relationship between a time axis and values of the amplitude of the detection waves during a reverberation interval following the termination of transmitting the probe waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Taketo HARADA, Tetsuya AOYAMA, Yu KOYAMA, Takuya NOMURA
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Patent number: 11209542Abstract: An object detection device which determines an amplitude Ar of an ultrasonic wave received by a receiving unit, detects a frequency fr of the ultrasonic wave, sweeps a frequency fp of a pulse signal after a predetermined time has elapsed from start of generation of the pulse signal, and determines that the received ultrasonic wave is a reflected wave of the probe wave when the frequency fr after the amplitude Ar becomes a predetermined reference value or more from start of transmission of the probe wave makes the same change as the frequency fp. When an ultrasonic wave received by a receiver is determined to be a reflected wave of the probe wave, the object detection unit calculates a distance to an object based on a time from transmission of the probe wave to reception of the ultrasonic wave.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Suzuki, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Takuya Nomura
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Publication number: 20210374434Abstract: An image recognizer is enabled to appropriately recognize a traffic signal applicable to an own vehicle. A traffic signal detector is configured to detect traffic signals based on an image of a front view of the own vehicle captured from the own vehicle. A calculator is configured to calculate a degree by which a front of the traffic signal faces the own vehicle based on the image. The traffic signal identifier is configured to identify a traffic signal applicable to the own vehicle based on the degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Ukyo TANIKAWA, Shunsuke NAKANO, Takuya NOMURA, Yasushi SUEHISA
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Publication number: 20210328490Abstract: In an axial gap motor, a rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a rotor base, and a stator includes a plurality of stator cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a stator base, and coils wound around the stator cores. End faces of each of the rotor cores and end faces of the corresponding stator core are opposed to each other while being exposed to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiu KANADA, Kazuaki HAGA, Toshimitsu TAKAHASHI, Mayumi TAKAZAWA, Takuya NOMURA, Shinya SANO, Takeshi TOMONAGA, Hisanori KOMA, Yasuhide YAGYU, Kensuke KOMORI, Tatsuhiko HIRANO, Masaaki ITO, Hiroaki WAKIMOTO
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Patent number: 11136743Abstract: An electric construction machine that can travel from a work site to charging equipment and prevent the lowering of the work efficiency is provided. An electric hydraulic excavator includes a motor (28) that is driven by power of a battery device (19) and drives a hydraulic pump (29), a controller (37), and a display device (24). The controller (37) computes and stores the amount of consumed power of the motor (28) consumed during the period from the departure of the hydraulic excavator from the charging equipment to arrival at the work site, based on movement information of the hydraulic excavator acquired by a movement information acquiring device. The controller (37) subtracts the amount of consumed power from the amount of stored power of the battery device (19) to compute the amount of power consumable at the work site.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., LtdInventors: Takuya Nomura, Masayuki Yunoue, Wataru Takagi, Hiromu Yukawa, Yuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210291824Abstract: An object detection apparatus applied to a vehicle having a sensor unit mounted on a predetermined member provided to the vehicle, the sensor unit being provided with an object detection sensor that detects position information of an object present around the vehicle and a tilt sensor that detects a tilt angle as inclination with respect to a predetermined direction, and performing a process of detecting the object based on the position information of the object detected by the object detection sensor, the object detection apparatus comprising a detachment state determination section that determines a detachment state of the predetermined member based on the tilt angle detected by the tilt sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Satoru NORO, Masakazu TAKEICHI, Takuya NOMURA
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Publication number: 20210263149Abstract: An object detection device includes a drive signal generation unit provided to generate a drive signal for driving a transmitter configured to transmit a search wave to the outside, and a control unit provided to control output of the drive signal from the drive signal generation unit to the transmitter. The drive signal generation unit generates a first drive signal corresponding to a first search wave and a second drive signal corresponding to a second search wave having an encoding scheme that is different from the encoding scheme of the first search wave. The control unit causes the drive signal generation unit to output the first drive signal and the second drive signal to the transmitter at different timings so that one of the first and second search waves is transmitted in a transmission interval between transmissions of the other search wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Yu KOYAMA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Takuya NOMURA
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Publication number: 20210222404Abstract: An electric construction machine is provided that can travel from a work location to a charging location, and can suppress deterioration of work efficiency. The electric hydraulic excavator includes: a battery device (19); an electric motor (28) that is driven by power of the battery device (19); a hydraulic pump (29) that is driven by the electric motor (28); a travelling hydraulic motor (7) and a work hydraulic actuator that are driven by a hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump (29); a controller (37); and a display device (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Wataru TAKAGI, Masayuki YUNOUE, Takuya NOMURA, Yuki HIROSE
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Publication number: 20210222399Abstract: An electric construction machine that can travel from a work site to charging equipment and prevent the lowering of the work efficiency is provided. An electric hydraulic excavator includes a motor (28) that is driven by power of a battery device (19) and drives a hydraulic pump (29), a controller (37), and a display device (24). The controller (37) computes and stores the amount of consumed power of the motor (28) consumed during the period from the departure of the hydraulic excavator from the charging equipment to arrival at the work site, based on movement information of the hydraulic excavator acquired by a movement information acquiring device. The controller (37) subtracts the amount of consumed power from the amount of stored power of the battery device (19) to compute the amount of power consumable at the work site.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Takuya NOMURA, Masayuki YUNOUE, Wataru TAKAGI, Hiromu YUKAWA, Yuki YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11033755Abstract: There is provided a treatment planning system and a particle therapy system. In the related art, it is unable to determine optimum beam intensity in irradiation for which discrete spot irradiation and continuous beam irradiation coexist. There is provided a treatment planning system that includes a spot determination unit that divides an irradiation region to be irradiated with a charged particle beam into a plurality of layers in an advancing direction of the charged particle beam and disposes a plurality of irradiation spots, which becomes irradiation points of the charged particle beam, in the layers and a beam intensity determination unit that determines beam intensity for each of the layers by evaluating the irradiation time by changing the beam intensity in a range of a condition of change in dose distribution which is set in advance.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Yamada, Taisuke Takayanagi, Rintarou Fujimoto, Shinichiro Fujitaka, Takuya Nomura
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Patent number: 11030532Abstract: An information processing apparatus discloses herein includes an acquiring unit and an estimating unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of identity information including a keyword based on an operation performed by a user. The estimating unit estimates an age group of the user based on the plurality of pieces of identity information acquired by the acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Ryotaro Takeda, Takuya Nomura
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Patent number: 10928516Abstract: An ultrasonic type object detection apparatus sequentially detects a distance between an ultrasonic sensor and an object in a coverage of a transmission wave at a predetermined detection cycle based on a time taken for the ultrasonic sensor to transmit the transmission wave and then to receive a reflection wave. The apparatus includes: a storage storing the distance to the object; a vehicle information acquisition device acquiring vehicle information for calculating a movement distance; a detection distance predictor predicting a next detected distance to the object based on a past detection result and the vehicle information; and a short range determinator determining whether the object is present in a short range area in which the distance between the object and the ultrasonic sensor is equal to or shorter than a short range threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Nomura, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Taiki Yoshida, Motonari Ohbayashi, Hironobu Ishijima
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Patent number: 10875451Abstract: An obstacle detecting device for detecting an obstacle around a vehicle includes a sensor, a notifying unit, an operation detecting unit, and a control unit. The sensor is installed at a fixed portion of the vehicle to detect an obstacle within a predetermined detection range with an origin corresponding to a position where the sensor is installed. The notifying unit provides a notification based on a signal output from the sensor. The operation detecting unit detects an operation of a movable portion of the vehicle moving within the detection range of the sensor. The control unit is enabled to inhibit a notifying operation of the notifying unit when the operation detecting unit detects the operation of the movable portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiko Matsushita, Takuya Nomura
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Patent number: 10877135Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes an object detecting unit detecting an object present around a subject vehicle based on received waves, in a case of receiving reflected waves, from the object, of ultrasonic waves transmitted from an ultrasonic sensor as transmitted waves. The object detection apparatus includes a temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the ultrasonic sensor, and based on a detected value of the temperature of the ultrasonic sensor, corrects at least one of a reception sensitivity for the received waves received by the ultrasonic sensor and a transmission intensity for the transmitted waves from the ultrasonic sensor. The object detection apparatus then detects the object using the corrected received waves.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Nomura, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Taketo Harada
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Publication number: 20200256968Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes: a first electrode that is provided in an ultrasonic microphone including a vibration element having a function of performing conversion between mechanical vibration and an electrical signal; a second electrode that is provided at a position different from the first electrode in an in-plane direction intersecting a directional axis of the ultrasonic microphone; and a detection section that is provided to detect the presence or absence of attached matter attached to the ultrasonic sensor on the basis of a change in capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Yu KOYAMA, Tetsuya AOYAMA, Takuya NOMURA, Satoru NORO
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Publication number: 20200213687Abstract: A sensor system includes at least one sensor and a control unit. The at least one sensor and the control unit communicate with each other using a time-division multiplexing method. The control unit is capable of being connected to a plurality of sensors that configures the at least one sensor, and transmits a data transmission command to the at least one sensor connected to the control unit at every fixed amount of time. In response to the number of at least one target sensor, among the at least one sensor, for transmitting data collected by the control unit being less than the number of time slots allocated within the fixed amount of time, the at least one sensor transmits data to the control unit using a plurality of time slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventor: Takuya NOMURA