Patents by Inventor Tomonori Kondo
Tomonori Kondo 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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Publication number: 20240120604Abstract: A power supply device with enhanced safety is provided. A power supply device (100) includes secondary battery cells (1) each including a positive electrode (2) including a safety valve on one end surface of each cell, a battery holder holding the secondary battery cells (1) each including the positive electrode (2) on the one end surface thereof, and a housing (20) having a bottom surface (22), a top surface (23), and an inner space which accommodates the battery holder therein. The battery holder holds the secondary battery cells (1) upright in parallel to one another such that the positive electrode (2) on the one end surface of each cell (1) is directed vertically downward. In the housing (20), the battery holder retains the positive electrode (2) of each cell (1) spaced apart from the bottom surface (22) across a first space (SP1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: HIROSHI KONDO, TOMONORI SAKAMOTO, TAKUYA TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20240096551Abstract: A method of manufacturing an inductor component includes preparing an insulating paste that is photosensitive and that includes a filler material composed of quartz, a glass material and a resin material, and a conductive paste, forming a first insulating layer by applying the insulating paste, and exposing the first insulating layer in a state where a first portion of the first insulating layer is shielded by a mask. The method further includes removing the first portion of the first insulating layer to form a groove at a position corresponding to the first portion, applying the conductive paste in the groove to form a coil conductor layer in the groove, and applying the insulating paste on the first insulating layer and the coil conductor layer to form a second insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki OOTA, Tomohiro KIDO, Tomonori SAKATA, Masahiro KUBOTA, Kenta KONDO
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Patent number: 11926298Abstract: A brake device includes a brake pedal, an input rod, a master cylinder, a guide rail, a slider, and a coupling arm. The brake pedal is rotatable using an arm rotary shaft disposed on one end of a pedal arm used as a fulcrum. A pedal force input to the brake pedal is transmitted to the input rod as a thrust. The master cylinder is configured to generate a brake hydraulic pressure responsive to the thrust input to the input rod. The guide rail is disposed on the pedal arm and extends along a longitudinal direction of the pedal arm. The slider is coupled to the pedal arm via the guide rail and is movable on the guide rail. The coupling arm has a first end rotatably coupled to the slider and a second end rotatably coupled to the input rod. The second end is different from the first end.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yujiro Kondo, Tomonori Imaizumi
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Patent number: 11440125Abstract: There are provided an electric resistance welded steel pipe for producing a high strength hollow stabilizer excellent in fatigue resistance and a high strength hollow stabilizer. In an electric resistance welded steel pipe (5) for producing a hollow stabilizer, an internal weld bead cut portion (30) has a three-peak shape and a depth (H) of a trough portion (30a) of the three-peak shape is 0.3 mm or less and an angle (?) formed by a central portion in the circumferential direction of the trough portion (30a) and the top of right and left peak portions (30b, 30c) located on both the right and left sides of the trough portion (30a) is 160° or more and less than 180°.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Ryoji Matsui, Hiroshi Nakata, Tomonori Kondo, Hiromichi Hori
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Patent number: 11307023Abstract: A measurement system and method, which increases a degree of freedom for setting a measurement period and a transmission period of measurement values and has a high accuracy, are provided. The measurement system includes a control device and a measurement device that measures a measurement object in a first period and transmits measurement values obtained from the measurement device to the control device. The measurement device transmits the measurement values waiting to be transmitted and additional information including information of the number of the measurement values waiting to be transmitted to the control device using frames transmitted in a second period that is longer than the first period. The control device generates time series data in which the measurement values are arranged in time series using the additional information.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuta Suzuki, Hiroshi Sawaragi, Tomonori Kondo
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Publication number: 20220066033Abstract: Without requiring that threshold values be set for each measurement condition, the present invention makes it possible to determine whether noise that can occur in measured values is present. An optical measurement device acquires measured values on the basis of the amount of reflected light that is received after being reflected by a target. The optical measurement device comprises a setting part for setting a threshold value for the amount of received reflected light per unit time on the basis of feature information regarding the light amount of the optical measurement device and a determination part for determining whether there is measured value noise on the basis of the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yosuke KAJII, Tomonori KONDO
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Patent number: 11194047Abstract: An optical measurement device includes: a light source, which emits light; a light reception portion, which detects a light reception amount of reflected light reflected on a target; a measurement portion, which measures a distance from the optical measurement device to the target based on the light reception amount of the reflected light; and a detection portion, which detects a portion of the target in which a light reception amount per unit time of the reflected light is smaller than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yosuke Kajii, Kenichi Matoba, Tomonori Kondo
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Publication number: 20210268862Abstract: An electric resistance welded steel pipe for manufacturing a hollow stabilizer has a Rankford value in a pipe longitudinal direction of from 0.7 to less than 1.0. The electric resistance welded steel pipe is subjected to cold bending and then to a heat treatment including quenching and tempering to manufacture a stabilizer. The cold bending is cold rotary draw bending. When bent with a bend radius of from 1.0 times to 3.0 times an outer diameter of the pipe before cold bending, a flattening ratio is from 0% to 10%, a thickness reduction rate on a bending outside and a thickness increase rate on a bending inside are from 0% to 10%, and additionally, a circumferential length change of a bending center portion is from 0% to 10%. A Vickers hardness of the stabilizer after the heat treatment is adjusted to from 400 HV to less than 580 HV.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Ryoji Matsui, Tomonori Kondo, Shinsaku Kokubo
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Publication number: 20210122912Abstract: A flame retardant resin composition includes a polyolefin resin, a phosphate compound, and an organic phosphorus compound. The phosphate compound includes a salt of a phosphoric acid represented by the following formula: where m represents an integer of 1 to 100, and an amine compound containing an amino group in a molecule, and the organic phosphoric compound (C) is represented by the following formula: where X1 and X2 are the same or different, and are represented by the following formula: ALArn??(3), where AL is a branched or linear aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, Ar is a phenyl group, a naphthyl group or an anthryl group which may include a substituted group, and bonds with an optional carbon atom in the AL, and n indicates an integer of 1 to 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Iwata, Seiichi Taira, Tomonori Kondo, Shoichiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210001425Abstract: There are provided an electric resistance welded steel pipe for producing a high strength hollow stabilizer excellent in fatigue resistance and a high strength hollow stabilizer. In an electric resistance welded steel pipe (5) for producing a hollow stabilizer, an internal weld bead cut portion (30) has a three-peak shape and a depth (H) of a trough portion (30a) of the three-peak shape is 0.3 mm or less and an angle (?) formed by a central portion in the circumferential direction of the trough portion (30a) and the top of right and left peak portions (30b, 30c) located on both the right and left sides of the trough portion (30a) is 160° or more and less than 180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Aratani, Ryoji Matsui, Hiroshi Nakata, Tomonori Kondo, Hiromichi Hori
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Patent number: 10767979Abstract: An error of a measured distance is reduced. An optical measurement device (100) includes: a light source (10), which emits lights; a sensor head (30), which condenses reflected lights reflected by a target (TA); a light reception portion (40), which is configured in a manner that each of a plurality of pixels is capable of detecting a light reception amount, and which obtains a light reception amount distribution signal of each pixel for the condensed reflected lights; a measurement portion (51), which measures a distance from the optical measurement device (100) to the target (TA) based on the light reception amount distribution signal; and a correction portion (52), which corrects the measured distance that is measured based on a predefined characteristic value in a waveform of the light reception amount distribution signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Jun Takashima, Tomonori Kondo
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Patent number: 10514294Abstract: The optical measurement apparatus includes an interface unit and a measuring unit. The interface unit is configured to receive a synchronization signal transmitted from a PLC to a fieldbus at a constant communication cycle, and output, in synchronization with the synchronization signal, a result of measurement (a measured value) by the optical measurement apparatus and a synchronization supervisory signal. The measuring unit is configured to execute optical measurement at a measurement cycle irrelevant to the communication cycle and generate a result of the measurement and a synchronization supervisory signal. The measuring unit sets the synchronization supervisory signal into an ON state in synchronization with receipt of the synchronization signal by the interface unit after start of the measurement, and sets the synchronization supervisory signal into an OFF state in synchronization with receipt of the synchronization signal by the interface unit when the interface unit outputs the measurement result.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Kanetani, Tomonori Kondo, Yuta Suzuki
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Patent number: 10514460Abstract: An optical sensor and an abnormality detection method therefor are provided. The optical sensor includes a light source device that generates light to be irradiated to an object; a light receiving part that receives a reflected light from the object; a branch part that fuses a first optical fiber optically coupled to the light source device and a second optical fiber optically coupled to the light receiving part to join with one end of a third optical fiber facing the object; and a processing part that determines whether junction abnormality occurs at a junction between the third optical fiber and the branch part based on whether an increment in a received light amount detected by the light receiving part with respect to a reference detection amount which is detected in a state of no reflection from the other end of the third optical fiber is within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Norihiro Tomago, Tomonori Kondo, Shinya Furukawa
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Patent number: 10495448Abstract: A displacement measuring device capable of accurately measuring a distance to a measurement target surface is provided. The displacement measuring device includes a light projecting part generating light, a sensor head irradiating a measurement target with the light and receiving light of the irradiated light reflected by a measurement target surface of the measurement target, and a control part calculating a value indicating a distance to the measurement target surface on the basis of the light received by the sensor head. The control part processes the calculated value as the value indicating the distance to the measurement target surface on condition that the calculated value is included in a preset numerical range and resets the preset numerical range on the basis of the calculated value.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tomonori Kondo, Yuta Suzuki, Kenichi Matoba, Yoshihiro Kanetani
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Patent number: 10444360Abstract: A displacement measurement device and a measurement method are provided. A displacement measurement device includes a light projecting unit configured to generate a light beam; a sensor head configured to emit the light beam to a measurement target object and receive a light beam reflected at the measurement target surface within the emitted light beam; a storage unit configured to store a function using a distance between the sensor head and the measurement target surface as a variable; and a control unit configured to calculate the distance based on a wavelength of the light received by the sensor head. The control unit calculates a value of the function using a distance between the sensor head and the measurement target surface of the measurement target object as a value of the variable. The control unit corrects the calculated distance using the calculated value of the function.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tomonori Kondo, Yuta Suzuki, Kenichi Matoba
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Publication number: 20190285400Abstract: An error of a measured distance is reduced. An optical measurement device (100) includes: a light source (10), which emits lights; a sensor head (30), which condenses reflected lights reflected by a target (TA); a light reception portion (40), which is configured in a manner that each of a plurality of pixels is capable of detecting a light reception amount, and which obtains a light reception amount distribution signal of each pixel for the condensed reflected lights; a measurement portion (51), which measures a distance from the optical measurement device (100) to the target (TA) based on the light reception amount distribution signal; and a correction portion (52), which corrects the measured distance that is measured based on a predefined characteristic value in a waveform of the light reception amount distribution signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Jun TAKASHIMA, Tomonori KONDO
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Publication number: 20190271538Abstract: A measurement system and method, which increases a degree of freedom for setting a measurement period and a transmission period of measurement values and has a high accuracy, are provided. The measurement system includes a control device and a measurement device that measures a measurement object in a first period and transmits measurement values obtained from the measurement device to the control device. The measurement device transmits the measurement values waiting to be transmitted and additional information including information of the number of the measurement values waiting to be transmitted to the control device using frames transmitted in a second period that is longer than the first period. The control device generates time series data in which the measurement values are arranged in time series using the additional information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuta SUZUKI, Hiroshi SAWARAGI, Tomonori KONDO
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Publication number: 20190219695Abstract: An optical measurement device includes: a light source, which emits light; a light reception portion, which detects a light reception amount of reflected light reflected on a target; a measurement portion, which measures a distance from the optical measurement device to the target based on the light reception amount of the reflected light; and a detection portion, which detects a portion of the target in which a light reception amount per unit time of the reflected light is smaller than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yosuke KAJII, Kenichi MATOBA, Tomonori KONDO
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Patent number: 10254108Abstract: An optical measurement device configured for connection to an industrial network, the industrial network functioning to synchronize time between a master device and a slave device, the optical measurement device includes: an interface module configured to receive a synchronization signal transmitted on the industrial network from the master device within a fixed communication cycle; and a measurement unit configured to perform optical measurements in a measurement cycle. The measurement unit synchronizes when a measurement is taken with the communication cycle in accordance with the synchronization signal received by the interface module.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Koji Shimada, Tomonori Kondo
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Patent number: D1015840Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Kawase, Tomoyuki Kondo