Patents by Inventor Tomonori Imamura
Tomonori Imamura 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: 11945336Abstract: An information creation apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where priorities of power supply are set to power supply targets, set upper limits of power storage remaining amounts of the power supply targets such that the upper limit of the power storage remaining amount of a power supply target with a lower priority is set to a value larger than a reference value.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Kizuku Yamada, Masaki Ito, Sakiko Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Tomonori Imamura
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Publication number: 20230411915Abstract: Provided is a method of bonding an operation wire used in a medical equipment. The method includes: locally heating an adjacent region of a bonding region of an operation wire to generate an oxide in the adjacent region of the operation wire; coating the bonding region and the adjacent region with flux to remove an oxide in the bonding region and the oxide in the adjacent region; inserting a bonding end portion of the operation wire into a through-hole of a coupling material; injecting a melted bonding material into between the coupling material and the operation wire to integrally bond the coupling material and the operation wire such that the oxide remaining in the adjacent region prevents wet-spreading of the bonding material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro ISHIKAWA, Keiichi ASAMI, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20230235767Abstract: A joint ring of an endoscope comprises a joint ring body including a joint ring wall having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface, and a first wire guide attached to the inner surface of the joint ring wall. The first wire guide includes a first wire guide body including a first wire guide wall having a third end surface and a fourth end surface. In a central axis direction of the joint ring body, at least a first portion of the first end surface and at least a first portion of the third end surface are at a first axial position and at least a first portion of the second end surface and at least a first portion of the fourth end surface are at a second axial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Yoshihiro HIRASAWA, Hiroyuki SEKI, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20220265964Abstract: Provided is a bendable tube unit of a medical guide sheath. The bendable tube unit includes, a coil in which an elastic wire is wound in a spiral form, and a rod that is arranged inside the coil along and n near a generating line in a circumferential direction of the coil, and that has a distal end portion and a rear end portion, the distal end portion being fixed to a front end portion of the coil, the rear end portion being connected to an operating portion configured to apply a bending action to the coil, the rod being configured to bend the coil by moving toward a distal end side of the coil to apply a stretching force to widen a space between parts of the wire near the generating line deviated from an axis of the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi ASAMI, Tomonori IMAMURA, Kinji TAKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220244065Abstract: The control device according to the present disclosure is a control device that controls a destination of a vehicle. The control device includes a processor that sets, upon acquiring occurrence information of a disaster, when the disaster has occurred at a first destination preset for an electric vehicle to be controlled or in a route to the first destination, a second destination different from the first destination, achieving the same purpose as the first destination, and at which no disaster has occurred, and a route to the second destination and in which no disaster has occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20220234453Abstract: A power supply control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that generates control information for preferentially supplying electric power to a wide traveling lane when information on a disaster is acquired in a plurality of traveling lanes in which a vehicle travels in the same direction, each of the traveling lanes having a different width.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Kizuku YAMADA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20220212558Abstract: There is provided a power supply device that supplies electric power to a motor-driven vehicle including a power storage device through one of wireless supply of electric power using a wireless system and wired supply of electric power using a wired system to the motor-driven vehicle. The power supply device includes a processor configured to perform control for recommending the supply of electric power using the wired system as a power supply system for the motor-driven vehicle when information on a disaster is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Kizuku Yamada, Masaki Ito, Sakiko Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Tomonori Imamura
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Publication number: 20220212564Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is a control device configured to control charging and discharging of the power storage device included in a drive device. The control device includes a processor configured to determine whether the remaining capacity of the power storage device is able to reach the target charging capacity by a disaster occurrence predicted time when disaster information including the predicted time is acquired and is configured to calculate the discharge capacity that is able to be discharged by the predicted time when it is determined that the target charging capacity is able to be reached by the predicted time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20220153165Abstract: An information creation apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where priorities of power supply are set to power supply targets, set upper limits of power storage remaining amounts of the power supply targets such that the upper limit of the power storage remaining amount of a power supply target with a lower priority is set to a value larger than a reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20220135034Abstract: A traveling control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that cancels a designation of type a vehicle that travels in each of a plurality of traveling lanes in which the vehicle travels in the same direction and for which the type of the vehicle that travels in each of the traveling lanes is designated, when information relating a disaster is acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Kizuku YAMADA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20220111750Abstract: A first aspect of the present disclosure relates to a disaster-stricken area specification device including a processor configured to determine whether or not a disaster occurs at a place where power feed to a target to be charged is performed, based on power feed efficiency by noncontact charging to the target to be charged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
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Patent number: 10687837Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a medical basket treatment tool. The method for manufacturing a medical basket treatment tool having one or more wire formed using an alloy containing two or more metals includes a heating process of performing heat treatment on a target portion of at least one wire among the wires one or more times, the heat treatment irradiating the target portion with a laser with an irradiation fluence of 103 J/cm2 or more and heating the target portion to become a predetermined temperature lower than the solid solubility limit of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Imamura, Jumpei Otake, Takeshi Hidaka, Kazuaki Uchida
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Patent number: 10646094Abstract: A novel wipe set and a novel wiping method in which the wipe set is used are provided. With the wipe set comprising a first wipe impregnated with 50 to 200 mg of a sodium hypochlorite aqueous solution per gram of the wipe, a second wipe impregnated with 30 to 110 mg of a sodium thiosulfate aqueous solution per gram of the wipe, and a third wipe impregnated with 4 to 110 mg of a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution per gram of the wipe as well as by the wiping method in which the wipe set of the present invention is used, an anticancer agent spilled on a working table, for example, can be removed effectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: MS DREAM CO., LTD., NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Asano, Takeshi Oguro, Tomonori Imamura, Masaru Fujimura
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Publication number: 20180185042Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a medical basket treatment tool. The method for manufacturing a medical basket treatment tool having one or more wire formed using an alloy containing two or more metals includes a heating process of performing heat treatment on a target portion of at least one wire among the wires one or more times, the heat treatment irradiating the target portion with a laser with an irradiation fluence of 103 J/cm2 or more and heating the target portion to become a predetermined temperature lower than the solid solubility limit of the alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori IMAMURA, Jumpei OTAKE, Takeshi HIDAKA, Kazuaki UCHIDA
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Patent number: 9758159Abstract: An output shaft is arranged to be lateral and parallel to engine input shafts and a motor input shaft. An engine side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the engine input shafts to the output shaft is provided. A motor side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the motor input shaft to the output shaft is provided. An input side clutch engages and disengages the engine input shafts and the motor input shaft. When the input side clutch is engaged, the power transmission between a position where the engine side gear mechanism is arranged on the engine input shafts and a position where the motor side gear mechanism is arranged on the motor input shaft is invariably possible.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Imamura, Shinichirou Koshimoto, Hiroshi Okada, Tomohiro Saito
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Patent number: 9643595Abstract: An output shaft is arranged to be lateral and parallel to engine input shafts and a motor input shaft. An engine side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the engine input shafts to the output shaft is provided. A motor side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the motor input shaft to the output shaft is provided. An input side clutch engages and disengages the engine input shafts and the motor input shaft. When the input side clutch is engaged, the power transmission between a position where the engine side gear mechanism is arranged on the engine input shafts and a position where the motor side gear mechanism is arranged on the motor input shaft is invariably possible.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Imamura, Shinichirou Koshimoto, Hiroshi Okada, Tomohiro Saito
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Patent number: 9368811Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a coolant pump for pumping a coolant, the coolant pump being provided in a coolant pipe that conveys the coolant to a fuel cell; a coolant heating device for heating the coolant when the fuel cell has stopped operation, the coolant heating device being provided in the coolant pipe; and a secondary battery for supplying power to the coolant pump and the coolant heating device, the secondary battery being connected to the coolant pump and the coolant heating device, wherein when the fuel cell has stopped operation, the heated coolant is conveyed to the fuel cell to dry the fuel cell. The fuel cell system further includes an external power source plug for supplying power from an external power source to the coolant pump and the coolant heating device, the external power source plug being connected to the coolant pump and the coolant heating device.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomonori Imamura
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Publication number: 20150145241Abstract: The member joining method including: a member disposing process of disposing the first member and the second member such that the first plate-shaped section and the second plate-shaped section overlap in a thickness direction, a first laser radiating process of forming a melted section by radiating a laser beam to the first plate-shaped section overlapping the second plate-shaped section, and a second laser radiating process of, after solidifying the melted section to form a melted solidification section, radiating a laser beam to a surface of the melted solidification section so as to forcus the laser beam on the first plate-shaped section through the melted solidification section, melting the melted solidification section and the second plate-shaped section opposite to the melted solidification section to form a welding section formed of an alloy thereof, and joining the first plate-shaped section and the second plate-shaped section via the welding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: KEIICHI ASAMI, Tomonori Imamura, Kinji Takiguchi
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Publication number: 20140379194Abstract: An output shaft is arranged to be lateral and parallel to engine input shafts and a motor input shaft. An engine side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the engine input shafts to the output shaft is provided. A motor side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the motor input shaft to the output shaft is provided. An input side clutch engages and disengages the engine input shafts and the motor input shaft. When the input side clutch is engaged, the power transmission between a position where the engine side gear mechanism is arranged on the engine input shafts and a position where the motor side gear mechanism is arranged on the motor input shaft is invariably possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Tomonori IMAMURA, Shinichirou KOSHIMOTO, Hiroshi OKADA,, Tomohiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20140379195Abstract: An output shaft is arranged to be lateral and parallel to engine input shafts and a motor input shaft. An engine side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the engine input shafts to the output shaft is provided. A motor side gear mechanism for transmitting a power of the motor input shaft to the output shaft is provided. An input side clutch engages and disengages the engine input shafts and the motor input shaft. When the input side clutch is engaged, the power transmission between a position where the engine side gear mechanism is arranged on the engine input shafts and a position where the motor side gear mechanism is arranged on the motor input shaft is invariably possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Tomonori Imamura, Shinichirou Koshimoto, Hiroshi Okada, Tomohiro Saito