Patents by Inventor Toru Takahama

Toru Takahama 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: 20240067453
    Abstract: A bulk feeder includes a feeder main body, a bracket provided to be vibratable with respect to the feeder main body, a track member provided detachably with respect to the bracket, an excitation device configured to apply vibration to the track member via the bracket, a locking target member provided in a first one of the track member and the bracket, and a lock member provided in a second one of the track member and the bracket and configured to switch between a locked state in which the lock member is locked to the locking target member to restrict a relative movement of the track member with respect to the bracket, and a released state in which lock between the lock member and the locking target member is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Toru TAKAHAMA
  • Patent number: 11051439
    Abstract: A power supply control device for controlling a consumption current supplied from a power supply device to a tape feeder loaded on a component supply device, the component supply device being exchangeably loaded with multiple of the tape feeders, the power supply control device including: a consumption current acquiring section configured to acquire the consumption current corresponding to a state of the multiple tape feeders; a total consumption current calculating section configured to calculate a total consumption current that is a total of each of the consumption currents of the multiple tape feeders; and an operation controlling section configured to control the specified operation of the multiple tape feeders within a range in which the total consumption current does not exceed an output current capacity of the power supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukaya, Kazuya Matsuyama, Hisato Sawanami, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 10419729
    Abstract: An adjustment image for facilitating adjustment is generated. An image display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a semiconductor laser, a wheel, an adjustment image generating unit, and a projection unit. The semiconductor laser emits light. The wheel includes a first area and a second area as areas for adjusting color components of the light emitted from the semiconductor laser. The adjustment image generating unit generates an adjustment image in which a first color formed using a section adjacent to a boundary between the first area and the second area and a second color formed not using the section adjacent to the boundary and having color components close to the first color are arranged adjacent to each other. The projection unit projects the adjustment image generated by the adjustment image generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 10304171
    Abstract: A projection control device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor acquires a feature of a projection surface. The hardware processor determines a first area in which a first projection image corrected based on the acquired feature of the projection surface is projected and a second area that is other than the first area and in which a second projection image corrected based on the feature of the projection surface is projected, within a projection area projectable, by a projection device, on the projection surface. Then, the hardware processor controls the projection device to project the first projection image in the first area and project the second projection image in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakagawa, Tetsuro Narikawa, Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20190098265
    Abstract: An adjustment image for facilitating adjustment is generated. An image display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a semiconductor laser, a wheel, an adjustment image generating unit, and a projection unit. The semiconductor laser emits light. The wheel includes a first area and a second area as areas for adjusting color components of the light emitted from the semiconductor laser. The adjustment image generating unit generates an adjustment image in which a first color formed using a section adjacent to a boundary between the first area and the second area and a second color formed not using the section adjacent to the boundary and having color components close to the first color are arranged adjacent to each other. The projection unit projects the adjustment image generated by the adjustment image generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20180373134
    Abstract: A projector apparatus includes a projection unit that projects an image and a processor configured to acquire photographic images obtained by photographing, from a plurality of angles, a projection image projected by the projection unit onto a projection target surface, acquire a plurality of items of correction information from the acquired photographic images, determine an observation angle of the projection image on the projection target surface, select correction information from the acquired plurality of items of correction information, based on the determined observation angle, and cause the projection image projected by the projection unit to be corrected based on the selected correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventor: Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20180332746
    Abstract: A power supply control device for controlling a consumption current supplied from a power supply device to a tape feeder loaded on a component supply device, the component supply device being exchangeably loaded with multiple of the tape feeders, the power supply control device including: a consumption current acquiring section configured to acquire the consumption current corresponding to a state of the multiple tape feeders; a total consumption current calculating section configured to calculate a total consumption current that is a total of each of the consumption currents of the multiple tape feeders; and an operation controlling section configured to control the specified operation of the multiple tape feeders within a range in which the total consumption current does not exceed an output current capacity of the power supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki FUKAYA, Kazuya MATSUYAMA, Hisato SAWANAMI, Toru TAKAHAMA
  • Patent number: 10057554
    Abstract: A projection control device comprises a projection control unit, an image acquisition unit, and a corresponding determination unit. The projection control unit outputs a synthesis pattern light to a screen. The synthesis pattern light comprises plurality of pattern light including light area of different wave range from each other. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image includes the synthesis pattern light which has been outputted to the screen, wherein the captured image is captured by an image capture unit. The corresponding determination unit determines a relationship between projection pixels of the projector and pixels of the captured image of the image capture unit, on the basis of the synthesis pattern light on the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Narikawa, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 10044998
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a projection mode designation unit configured to designate one of a plurality of projection modes which designate at least one of a brightness and a color of the image which is projected by the projection unit; and a projection control unit configured to determine, based on the color information of the projection target surface acquired by the projection surface information acquisition unit and the projection mode designated by the projection mode designation unit, a gray scale range of each of colors constituting the image which is projected by the projection unit, and configured to cause the projection unit to project the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihide Takasu, Toru Takahama, Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Publication number: 20180182115
    Abstract: A projection control device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor acquires a feature of a projection surface. The hardware processor determines a first area in which a first projection image corrected based on the acquired feature of the projection surface is projected and a second area that is other than the first area and in which a second projection image corrected based on the feature of the projection surface is projected, within a projection area projectable, by a projection device, on the projection surface. Then, the hardware processor controls the projection device to project the first projection image in the first area and project the second projection image in the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakagawa, Tetsuro Narikawa, Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20180184058
    Abstract: A projection control device comprises a projection control unit, an image acquisition unit, and a corresponding determination unit. The projection control unit outputs a synthesis pattern light to a screen. The synthesis pattern light comprises plurality of pattern light including light area of different wave range from each other. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image includes the synthesis pattern light which has been outputted to the screen, wherein the captured image is captured by an image capture unit. The corresponding determination unit determines a relationship between projection pixels of the projector and pixels of the captured image of the image capture unit, on the basis of the synthesis pattern light on the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Tetsuro Narikawa, Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20180176523
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a projection mode designation unit configured to designate one of a plurality of projection modes which designate at least one of a brightness and a color of the image which is projected by the projection unit; and a projection control unit configured to determine, based on the color information of the projection target surface acquired by the projection surface information acquisition unit and the projection mode designated by the projection mode designation unit, a gray scale range of each of colors constituting the image which is projected by the projection unit, and configured to cause the projection unit to project the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Akihide Takasu, Toru Takahama, Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Publication number: 20170094234
    Abstract: A projection system includes: an imaging unit configured to photograph a predetermined region; a projection unit configured to project an image on a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface; and a processor configured to control a projection by the projection unit based on a state of a person photographed by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru TAKAHAMA
  • Patent number: 9485895
    Abstract: A central control device used in a manufacture work machine for performing a manufacture work to control, in a centralized manner, work-element performing apparatuses each configured to perform one of work elements that constitute the manufacture work, by sequentially transmitting motion commands each of which is a command for one motion to be performed by one of the work-element performing apparatuses, the central control device including: a source-data storage section configured to store source data in which is encoded a matter of each of the work elements to be performed by each of the work-element performing apparatuses to perform manufacture work; a motion-command generating section configured to generate motion commands on the basis of the source data; and a command-transmission processing section configured to preform transmission processing to transmit the motion commands generated by the motion-command generating section to the work-element performing apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seigo Kodama, Noriaki Iwaki, Kazuya Furukawa, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 9291302
    Abstract: A device attachment member used for a manufacture work machine equipped with: a device necessary for performing a manufacture work; a main frame on which the device is to be installed; and a controller configured to control the device, the device attachment member including a main body to be attached to the device, wherein the device attachment member includes an identification-information recording medium in which is recorded identification information, the device being identified by the controller based on the identification information, the identification-information recording medium being incorporated in the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Iwaki, Hideyuki Tsutsumi, Masaki Kato, Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20130306811
    Abstract: A device attachment member used for a manufacture work machine equipped with: a device necessary for performing a manufacture work; a main frame on which the device is to be installed; and a controller configured to control the device, the device attachment member including a main body to be attached to the device, wherein the device attachment member includes an identification-information recording medium in which is recorded identification information, the device being identified by the controller based on the identification information, the identification-information recording medium being incorporated in the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Iwaki, Hideyuki Tsutsumi, Masaki Kato, Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20130066440
    Abstract: A central control device used in a manufacture work machine for performing a manufacture work to control, in a centralized manner, work-element performing apparatuses each configured to perform one of work elements that constitute the manufacture work, by sequentially transmitting motion commands each of which is a command for one motion to be performed by one of the work-element performing apparatuses, the central control device including: a source-data storage section configured to store source data in which is encoded a matter of each of the work elements to be performed by each of the work-element performing apparatuses to perform manufacture work; a motion-command generating section configured to generate motion commands on the basis of the source data; and a command-transmission processing section configured to preform transmission processing to transmit the motion commands generated by the motion-command generating section to the work-element performing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seigo Kodama, Noriaki Iwaki, Kazuya Furukawa, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 7715614
    Abstract: A method of producing component data for use with an electronic component mounting apparatus includes imaging a component whose component data is to be produced and displaying a component image on a display, the component image on the display having an outline having at least one side edge with two corners, inputting the corners as reference points so that a first reference line passing the reference points is produced, producing second and third reference lines passing the reference points respectively so as to be perpendicular to the first reference line, inputting a point on another side edge of the outline of the component image and producing a fourth reference line passing the point on the side edge so as to be parallel to the first reference line, and producing component data by measuring a size of the component image outline on the basis of the first to fourth reference lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Hoshikawa, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 7221178
    Abstract: In a working system for circuit boards such as, typically, as an electronic component mounting apparatus, an image pickup camera mainly for detecting the position of a reference mark on a circuit board or/and for detecting the misalignment of an electronic component from the axis a mounting head holding the electronic component is also utilized for detecting a peculiar portion formed on one of board lifting plates for lifting a circuit board to be clamped at a working position on a circuit board transfer conveyer. The peculiar portion comprises a plurality of grooves formed on one board lifting plate made of stainless steel for being detected as a plurality of dark regions appearing on the stainless steel board lifting plate. When the circuit board is transferred to the working position on the circuit board transfer conveyer, one of the dark regions to be detected is hidden by the circuit board from the image pickup camera, so that the presence of the circuit board on the board transfer device can be judged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Takahama
  • Publication number: 20060241888
    Abstract: In a working system for circuit boards such as, typically, as an electronic component mounting apparatus, an image pickup camera mainly for detecting the position of a reference mark on a circuit board or/and for detecting the misalignment of an electronic component from the axis a mounting head holding the electronic component is also utilized for detecting a peculiar portion formed on one of board lifting plates for lifting a circuit board to be clamped at a working position on a circuit board transfer conveyer. The peculiar portion comprises a plurality of grooves formed on one board lifting plate made of stainless steel for being detected as a plurality of dark regions appearing on the stainless steel board lifting plate. When the circuit board is transferred to the working position on the circuit board transfer conveyer, one of the dark regions to be detected is hidden by the circuit board from the image pickup camera, so that the presence of the circuit board on the board transfer device can be judged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru TAKAHAMA