Patents by Inventor Tohru Nishi

Tohru Nishi 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: 20200306912
    Abstract: A monitoring device includes: a distribution generating unit configured to generate an execution time distribution that is a frequency distribution of an execution time of the program; a storage unit configured to store at least one kind of abnormality information indicative of an execution time distribution as to an abnormality; a calculation unit configured to calculate an occurrence probability of abnormality, based on information indicating the execution time distribution generated by the distribution generating unit and the abnormality information stored in the storage unit; a threshold setting unit configured to set a probability threshold for the abnormality information; and a determination unit configured to determine that there is a sign of an abnormality when the occurrence probability is equal to or higher than the probability threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Tohru NISHI
  • Patent number: 10488984
    Abstract: A data transmission system is disclosed, which transmits data via a touch panel capable of detecting vibrations, the system having: a portable apparatus including a vibration conversion unit configured to convert arbitrary data into a vibration signal, and a vibration generation unit configured to generate vibrations corresponding to a pattern of the vibration signal; and a touch panel apparatus including a resistive film-type touch panel configured to input the vibrations upon receiving a contact of the portable apparatus, a signal conversion unit configured to convert, into a detection signal, a voltage level detected corresponding to a contact and a non-contact between resistive films of the resistive film-type touch panel based on the inputted vibrations, and a data detection unit configured to detect the data based on a pattern of the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tohru Nishi
  • Patent number: 10241489
    Abstract: A control device includes a diagnosis-information output circuit constituted by a condition monitoring circuit, a condition determining circuit, a condition-controlling-signal monitoring circuit, an output-information generating circuit that generates diagnosis information indicating a condition of the control device, and a condition controlling circuit that changes a signal in the control device in response to a signal for controlling the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventor: Tohru Nishi
  • Patent number: 9837041
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display unit provided with a display control printed circuit board with a circuit configured to generate a display signal for display by a display panel and a fixing metal plate for securing the display control printed circuit board. The display control printed circuit board is provided with identification information reading means for reading identification information of the display panel, a memory stored with set values for generating display signals corresponding to the sizes of a plurality of display panels, and a display controller configured to generate the display signals. The fixing metal plate comprises one or more members electrically connected to the display control printed circuit board and configured to transmit the identification information of the display unit to the display control printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okita, Tohru Nishi
  • Publication number: 20170249052
    Abstract: A data transmission system is disclosed, which transmits data via a touch panel capable of detecting vibrations, the system having: a portable apparatus including a vibration conversion unit configured to convert arbitrary data into a vibration signal, and a vibration generation unit configured to generate vibrations corresponding to a pattern of the vibration signal; and a touch panel apparatus including a resistive film-type touch panel configured to input the vibrations upon receiving a contact of the portable apparatus, a signal conversion unit configured to convert, into a detection signal, a voltage level detected corresponding to a contact and a non-contact between resistive films of the resistive film-type touch panel based on the inputted vibrations, and a data detection unit configured to detect the data based on a pattern of the detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tohru Nishi
  • Publication number: 20160284310
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display unit provided with a display control printed circuit board with a circuit configured to generate a display signal for display by a display panel and a fixing metal plate for securing the display control printed circuit board. The display control printed circuit board is provided with identification information reading means for reading identification information of the display panel, a memory stored with set values for generating display signals corresponding to the sizes of a plurality of display panels, and a display controller configured to generate the display signals. The fixing metal plate comprises one or more members electrically connected to the display control printed circuit board and configured to transmit the identification information of the display unit to the display control printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi OKITA, Tohru NISHI
  • Publication number: 20160179072
    Abstract: A control device includes a diagnosis-information output circuit constituted by a condition monitoring circuit, a condition determining circuit, a condition-controlling-signal monitoring circuit, an output-information generating circuit that generates diagnosis information indicating a condition of the control device, and a condition controlling circuit that changes a signal in the control device in response to a signal for controlling the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventor: Tohru NISHI
  • Patent number: 7174996
    Abstract: Supplying fluids different in pressure from one end of a revolving shaft without providing a diagonal hole in the revolving shaft for supply holes for feeding hydraulic fluid and lubricating oil. The time for manufacturing and the cost of providing a hydraulic fluid feeder to the revolving shaft is reduced. A hydraulic fluid feeder includes a central hole provided on the centerline of the revolving shaft. Hollow tubes having a smaller outside diameter than the inside diameter of the central hole are concentrically inserted into the central hole and the central hole is partitioned. Either of the passages formed by partitioning functions as a hydraulic fluid supply passage for the hydraulic equipment and the other functions as a hydraulic fluid supply passage for another piece of hydraulic equipment or a lubricating oil supply passage for a bearing provided on the revolving shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Tohru Nishi, Seiji Hamaoka
  • Patent number: 7104261
    Abstract: To provide a crankcase emission control system that enables the miniaturization of an internal combustion engine and the reduction in the manufacturing cost. In a crankcase emission control system of an internal combustion engine, a collecting part for collecting blowby gas conveyed in a breather tube on the case side and a breather tube on the cylinder head side and directing the blowby gas to a breather tube on the air cleaner side is provided over a connection, a connecting pipe on the case side, of the breather tube on the case side and a breather on the case side, below a connection, a connecting pipe on the cylinder head side, of the breather tube on the cylinder head side and a breather on the cylinder head side and below a connection of the breather tube on the air cleaner side and an air cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Nishi, Hideyuki Tawara
  • Patent number: 6941838
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine including a torque converter on a crankshaft, and a single oil passage provided in the crankshaft for supplying, in common, both a working oil for the torque converter and a lubricating oil for the engine. A pump impeller of the torque converter is fixed to the crankshaft, and a clutch for connection and disconnection of engine output is provided on the side of a transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Tohru Nishi, Hideyuki Tawara
  • Patent number: 6910399
    Abstract: A transmission of an internal combustion engine is used in a saddle-type vehicle (buggy) for running on rough terrain. A crankshaft of the vehicle is arranged so that it is parallel with the traveling direction of the body. The transmission includes a mechanism for switching a gear for forward travel and a gear for backward travel. At least a part of the mechanism for switching the gear for forward travel and the gear for backward travel is provided between a crankcase and a crankcase cover. At least one of shafts forming the switching mechanism is partially overlapped with a main shaft or a counter shaft in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Nishi, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Publication number: 20050081837
    Abstract: To provide a crankcase emission control system that enables the miniaturization of an internal combustion engine and the reduction in the manufacturing cost. In a crankcase emission control system of an internal combustion engine, a collecting part for collecting blowby gas conveyed in a breather tube on the case side and a breather tube on the cylinder head side and directing the blowby gas to a breather tube on the air cleaner side is provided over a connection, a connecting pipe on the case side, of the breather tube on the case side and a breather on the case side, below a connection, a connecting pipe on the cylinder head side, of the breather tube on the cylinder head side and a breather on the cylinder head side and below a connection of the breather tube on the air cleaner side and an air cleaner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Nishi, Hideyuki Tawara
  • Patent number: 6880428
    Abstract: An output shaft structure enabling easy and secure positioning of an output shaft for a shaft driven vehicle having an internal combustion engine. The output shaft structure provides first and second cases which mutually connect on a face perpendicular to a crankshaft and form a crankcase, a case cover attached to the outside of the first case and the output shaft arranged in the crankcases and supported by a first bearing provided to the case cover and a second bearing provided to the first case. Also provided is an input gear for the output shaft arranged so that it touches the outside face of the second bearing. Further, the output shaft is provided with a first large diameter part positioned by touching the inside face of the first bearing, and a second large diameter part positioned by touching the outside face of the input gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Nishi, Yoshiaki Hori
  • Patent number: 6860366
    Abstract: In an oil passage structure in a rotary shaft, including two systems of oil passages different in pressure that are provided extending from both ends of the shaft, the rotary shaft is provided with oil supply holes in the radial direction of the shaft for connection between a center hole in the shaft and locations to be supplied with oil. The oil supply holes are bored from the outside of the shaft. At this time, burrs are generated at end portions of the oil supply holes on the side fronting on the center hole. Where the depth of the shaft center hole is a dead end, removal of the burrs is not easy. The shaft center hole is used as an oil passage wherein burrs, if any, in the hole can be easily removed. The two oil passages are in communication with each other through a communication passage smaller than the oil passages in diameter. The smaller-diameter communication passage is closed by pressing a steel ball therein, thereby making both of the oil passages independent from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Tohru Nishi, Hideyuki Tawara
  • Patent number: 6837209
    Abstract: To enhance productivity and maintainability of an internal combustion engine for a vehicle with a torque converter. An internal combustion engine with a torque converter includes a single feed pump for supplying both a working oil for a torque converter and a lubricating oil for the engine with an oil filter in communication with a discharge port of the feed pump being fitted to a crankcase cover. An outlet oil passage of the oil filter is branched into a low-pressure oil passage provided with an orifice and an oil passage for supplying a high-pressure control oil to changeover valves of a transmission. The high-pressure oil passage is provided concentratedly in the crankcase cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hori, Tohru Nishi, Seiji Hamaoka
  • Patent number: 6823828
    Abstract: A dry-sump lubrication unit for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle. A crankshaft of the vehicle is disposed so as to be parallel with the direction of travel of the vehicle, and in a position offset from a center of the vehicle when viewed from the front or back of the vehicle. A transmission shaft is disposed on the other side thereof. An oil tank is disposed in a crankcase located substantially at the lower center of the crankcase when viewed from the front or back of the vehicle on the rear side with respect to the traveling direction, and/or in a space between the crankcase and a rear case cover. Oil pumps are disposed forwardly of the oil tank. An oil injection pipe extends from the oil tank toward the side surface thereof on the transmission side. The resulting configuration prevents variations in liquid surface of lubricating oil of the vehicle internal combustion engine due to shaking of the vehicle body, and makes it possible to downsize the entire power unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Nishi, Yoshiaki Hori, Seiji Hamaoka, Masahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: D558152
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kouchi Tatsuyama, Tohru Nishi, Satoru Nozaki, Tatsuzo Hayashi
  • Patent number: D564979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kouchi Tatsuyama, Tohru Nishi, Satoru Nozaki, Tatsuzo Hayashi
  • Patent number: D568257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kouchi Tatsuyama, Tohru Nishi, Satoru Nozaki, Tatsuzo Hayashi
  • Patent number: D807872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Nomoto, Yoshiyuki Kubo, Tohru Nishi, Kenichiro Kurihara