Patents by Inventor Takuya Okamoto
Takuya Okamoto 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: 11959742Abstract: This sensor includes: a housing 10 which houses an electronic component in the internal space; a detection unit 40 which has a coil 42 and a core 41 that houses the coil 42 and which is arranged on the end side in the internal space; a substrate 30 which is arranged more inside the internal space than the detection unit 40 and on which a circuit electrically connected to the coil 42 is provided; a first shield 451 at least one portion of which is arranged further on the end side in the internal space than the detection unit 40 and which suppresses the penetration of noise from outside of the housing 10; and a spacer 51 which is positioned between the first shield 451 and the detection unit 40 and which separates the surfaces of the first shield 451 and the detection unit 40 that face each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yusuke Nakayama, Takuya Okamoto
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Publication number: 20240119894Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: YUICHI SATO, KENJI MAEDA, SHINJI YAMAMOTO, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA SEKI, MASAFUMI ITO, YOHICHI TAKAZANE
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Patent number: 11953608Abstract: An object of the present invention is to continuously estimate the position with high accuracy while the moving body is traveling. A position estimation device is installed in a moving body, and includes a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a subject moving body being the moving body in which the position estimation device is installed using any of positioning means of satellite positioning using a positioning satellite or radio wave positioning using wireless communication, and a positioning means selection unit configured to switch the positioning means the position estimation unit uses for estimation of the position of the subject moving body based on a traveling environment or a peripheral environment of the subject moving body.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Hamada, Naoki Isozaki, Takuya Matsuda, Takuma Okamoto
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Publication number: 20240109194Abstract: A control device includes an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires first information indicating information on an operating time of a first device and an environmental condition that influences a life of a first instrument provided for the first device, and information on an operating time of a second device and an environmental condition that influences a life of a second instrument provided for the second device. The control unit operates the first device and the second device in conjunction with each other based on the first information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Hidetaka KISHIMOTO, Takuya HANADA, Masakazu OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11945096Abstract: A product conveyance robot includes: a travel portion configured to travel on a road surface; a holding portion provided above the travel portion and configured to hold a product, the holding portion being provided rotatably around a lateral turn axis extending in the height direction of the holding portion; and a controller configured to control driving of the travel portion and a rotation angle of the holding portion around the lateral turn axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zixun Mei, Satoshi Okamoto, Takuya Watabe, Shinya Sakurai
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Publication number: 20240085052Abstract: An air conditioning unit includes an indoor air conditioner, a power supply line, and a wireless power feeder. The indoor air conditioner conditions air in a target space. The power supply line supplies power to the indoor air conditioner. The wireless power feeder feeds power to a predetermined device disposed in the target space. The wireless power feeder acquires power from the power supply line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Tadafumi NISHIMURA, Hiroshi DOUMAE, Tetsuya OKAMOTO, Takuya HANADA
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Publication number: 20240026584Abstract: The present invention aims to speed up of processing necessary at the time of switching between different sewing operation modes. Sewing data supply means supplies sewing data having mixed therein data indicative of different sewing operation modes. The sewing machine sews, based on the sewing data, a string-shaped material to a workpiece with different sewing operation modes mixed. A control device for the sewing machine includes a quick shift process means that controls, at a boundary between the different sewing operation modes and depending on a difference between the sewing operation modes immediately preceding and succeeding the boundary, whether to execute a process for shifting to the succeeding sewing operation mode while keeping a main shaft of the sewing machine rotating (rapid process) or to execute the process for shifting to the succeeding sewing operation mode after temporarily stopping the rotation of the main shaft (normal shift process).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Takuya OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11882248Abstract: A reading device includes a carriage configured to move in a sub-scanning direction with reference to an object placed on a contact glass, an optical sensor attached to the carriage, the optical sensor being configured to scan the object placed on the contact glass to obtain an image of the object, and a reference scale used as a reference when a dimension of the object is computed based on the image obtained by the optical sensor. In the reading device, the reference scale extends in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction with reference to the object, and is disposed outside a range of image acquisition in which the optical sensor scans the object to obtain the image of the object as the carriage moves and inside a maximum movement range in which the carriage is movable and the optical sensor obtains the image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Ishida, Shogo Nakamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Hiroki Hamashoji
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Patent number: 11881163Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Sato, Kenji Maeda, Shinji Yamamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Fumitaka Seki, Masafumi Ito, Yohichi Takazane
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Publication number: 20230407752Abstract: A turbine stationary blade includes: a blade body; and a shroud formed in an end portion of the blade body in a blade height direction. The shroud includes: a bottom plate in contact with a combustion gas flow passage; a peripheral wall formed in the blade height direction and along a peripheral edge of the bottom plate; a recess forming a space surrounded by the peripheral wall and the bottom plate; partition ribs connecting the blade body and the peripheral wall, dividing the recess into a plurality of spaces, and forming a plurality of cavities; and an impingement plate dividing the space into an outer cavity formed on an outer side in the blade height direction and an inner cavity formed on an inner side of the outer cavity, and having a plurality of through holes via which the outer cavity and the inner cavity communicate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Takuya OKAMOTO, Tomoko MORIKAWA, Satoshi HADA
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Publication number: 20230340882Abstract: This stator vane is at least provided with a blade body disposed in a combustion gas flow channel through which a combustion gas flows, a shroud that defines a part of the combustion gas flow channel, and an impingement plate attached to the shroud. A partition rib extends from a blade body end to an inner wall surface of a peripheral wall, and a shelf is provided at a rib-less part of the inner wall surface of the peripheral wall excluding at least a part in which the partition rib extends to the inner wall surface of the peripheral wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Saki MATSUO, Yusuke IZUMI, Satoshi HADA, Takuya OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11758064Abstract: A reading device includes a carriage movable in a sub-scanning direction, an optical sensor mounted on the carriage, the optical sensor being configured to scan an object placed on a contact glass, a reference scale used as a reference when a dimension of the object is computed based on an image obtained as the optical sensor scans the object, a flat gauge to be scanned by the optical sensor to calculate a corrective value used to correct the image obtained by the optical sensor, and circuitry to calculate the corrective value based on a scanned image including the reference scale and the flat gauge obtained by the optical sensor, and correct, based on the corrective value, a measurement image including an image of the object and an image of the reference scale obtained by the optical sensor and compute the dimension of the object based on the corrected measurement image.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Ishida, Shogo Nakamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Hiroki Hamashoji
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Publication number: 20230222088Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in compatible change of a first document to a second document in a second format, the first document being generated in a first format, the second format being different from the first format, when the first document contains incompatible data which is not compatible with the second format, convert the incompatible data to data compatible with the second format, and add the converted incompatible data to the second document; and embed link information for the converted incompatible data at a position, in the second document, corresponding to an original position, in the first document, of the incompatible data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takuya OKAMOTO, Toshiyuki KOMODA, Maiko SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11681681Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller that controls display of a display image, which is formed of a reduced image of a document by adding an accompanying image. The display controller controls display of the display image in a manner that when a display magnification of the display image is changed, the accompanying image is resized in a first direction in accordance with a magnification identical to the display magnification and resized in a second direction that differs from the first direction in accordance with a magnification that differs from the display magnification.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takuya Okamoto, Toshiyuki Komoda, Shinsuke Nakazawa, Yoshihito Suezawa
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Publication number: 20230143978Abstract: A reading device includes a carriage movable in a sub-scanning direction, an optical sensor mounted on the carriage, the optical sensor being configured to scan an object placed on a contact glass, a reference scale used as a reference when a dimension of the object is computed based on an image obtained as the optical sensor scans the object, a flat gauge to be scanned by the optical sensor to calculate a corrective value used to correct the image obtained by the optical sensor, and circuitry to calculate the corrective value based on a scanned image including the reference scale and the flat gauge obtained by the optical sensor, and correct, based on the corrective value, a measurement image including an image of the object and an image of the reference scale obtained by the optical sensor and compute the dimension of the object based on the corrected measurement image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Ishida, Shogo Nakamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Hiroki Hamashoji
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Publication number: 20230121999Abstract: A reading device includes a carriage configured to move in a sub-scanning direction with reference to an object placed on a contact glass, an optical sensor attached to the carriage, the optical sensor being configured to scan the object placed on the contact glass to obtain an image of the object, and a reference scale used as a reference when a dimension of the object is computed based on the image obtained by the optical sensor. In the reading device, the reference scale extends in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction with reference to the object, and is disposed outside a range of image acquisition in which the optical sensor scans the object to obtain the image of the object as the carriage moves and inside a maximum movement range in which the carriage is movable and the optical sensor obtains the image of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro ISHIDA, Shogo NAKAMOTO, Takuya OKAMOTO, Hiroki HAMASHOJI
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Publication number: 20230111513Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: YUICHI SATO, KENJI MAEDA, SHINJI YAMAMOTO, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA SEKI, MASAFUMI ITO, YOHICHI TAKAZANE
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Patent number: 11623462Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a conveying unit, a winding unit, a printing unit, and a rotation control unit. The conveying unit is configured to intermittently convey a printing medium by a predetermined feed amount. The winding unit is configured to wind the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit. The printing unit is configured to perform printing on the conveyed printing medium. The rotation control unit is configured to control the winding unit to rotate in a winding direction at a predetermined timing after the conveying unit has started to convey the printing medium intermittently, and then cause the winding unit to rotate in a reverse direction opposite to the winding direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Suguru Yokozawa, Suguru Masunaga, Takuya Okamoto
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Publication number: 20230102970Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vegetable protein-containing food that has an excellent juicy feeling (juiciness), a meat-like hardness, a good chewiness and almost the same texture as a natural livestock meat-containing food. A vegetable protein-containing food that comprises (A) a granular vegetable protein, and/or a granular textured vegetable protein containing brown rice, (B) a fibrillated granular vegetable protein, and (C) a mixture of oil or fat, water and methyl cellulose. This vegetable protein-containing food has an excellent juicy feeling (juiciness), a meat-like hardness, a good chewiness and almost the same texture as a natural livestock meat-containing food, which makes it appropriately usable as a pseudo-meat food.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kazushi Takemura, Yudai Horiuchi, Takuya Okamoto, Hiroyuki Shima
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Publication number: 20230048782Abstract: To accurately achieve synchronization between a master and a slave that perform wireless communication. A synchronization device that synchronizes time-series data between a master and a slave by wireless communication, the master including a packet transmission unit that transmits a plurality of packets at a predetermined interval, and the slave including a synchronization unit that synchronizes time-series data transmitted by the master and time-series data received by the slave on the basis of the interval between the plurality of packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: MASATO KONDOU, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA KONDO, MICHITO ISHII