Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Otani

Toshihiro Otani 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: 20230242203
    Abstract: A meter stay to attach a meter to a vehicle includes a base to support the meter, an accommodation case to accommodate a portion of an electric cable to electrically connect the meter and an external device to each other, a bobbin around which a portion of the electric cable is windable and located inside the accommodation case, and an attachment tool to attach the base and the accommodation case to the vehicle. An axial direction of the bobbin has a polar angle larger than about 45 degrees and smaller than about 135 degrees with respect to a direction normal to a display plane of the meter supported by the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Toshihiro OTANI
  • Patent number: 10199148
    Abstract: In particle beam irradiation equipment, a control unit causes a storage unit to store, as position information of reference positions, position information of electromagnets that is acquired at the time of their first alignment, by cameras, and then acquires displacement amounts, based on the position information of the reference positions stored in the storage unit and from position information of the electromagnets acquired at the time of their realignment, by the cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otani, Takaaki Iwata
  • Publication number: 20170236631
    Abstract: In particle beam irradiation equipment, a control unit causes a storage unit to store, as position information of reference positions, position information of electromagnets that is acquired at the time of their first alignment, by cameras, and then acquires displacement amounts, based on the position information of the reference positions stored in the storage unit and from position information of the electromagnets acquired at the time of their realignment, by the cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro OTANI, Takaaki IWATA
  • Patent number: 9694209
    Abstract: A particle beam transport section comprises a horizontal deflection electromagnet which deflects a particle beam to a direction which is parallel to an accelerator median plane of a circular accelerator, a first perpendicular electromagnet which deflects a particle beam whose travelling direction is deflected by the horizontal deflection electromagnet to a direction which is different from a direction which is parallel to the accelerator median and a second perpendicular electromagnet which deflects the particle beam whose travelling direction is deflected by the first perpendicular deflection to a direction which is parallel to the accelerator median plane, wherein the horizontal deflection electromagnet is provided on a floor which is different from a floor where a particle beam irradiation unit is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otani, Syuhei Odawara
  • Patent number: 9387346
    Abstract: A particle beam treatment system includes an accelerator system that accelerates a charged particle beam and a beam transport system that transports a high-energy beam emitted from the accelerator to an irradiation location, wherein the beam transport system is provided with at least one steering electromagnet and at least one beam position monitor corresponding to the at least one steering electromagnet, and wherein the at least one beam position monitor supplies an excitation current for correcting a beam position, which periodically varies, to the at least one steering electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazushi Hanakawa, Kengo Sugahara, Shuhei Odawara, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Toshihiro Otani, Taizo Honda, Katsuhisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160101298
    Abstract: A particle beam transport section comprises a horizontal deflection electromagnet which deflects a particle beam to a direction which is parallel to an accelerator median plane of a circular accelerator, a first perpendicular electromagnet which deflects a particle beam whose travelling direction is deflected by the horizontal deflection electromagnet to a direction which is different from a direction which is parallel to the accelerator median and a second perpendicular electromagnet which deflects the particle beam whose travelling direction is deflected by the first perpendicular deflection to a direction which is parallel to the accelerator median plane, wherein the horizontal deflection electromagnet is provided on a floor which is different from a floor where a particle beam irradiation unit is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro OTANI, Syuhei ODAWARA
  • Patent number: 9312100
    Abstract: In a particle beam therapy system which scans a particle beam and irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation position of an irradiation subject and has a dose monitoring device for measuring a dose of the particle beam and an ionization chamber smaller than the dose monitoring device, the ionization chamber measuring a dose of a particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device, the dose of the particle beam irradiated by the dose monitoring device is measured; the dose of the particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device is measured by the small ionization chamber; and a correction coefficient of the dose measured by the dose monitoring device corresponding to the irradiation position is found based on the dose of the particle beam measured by the small ionization chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otani, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Taizo Honda
  • Patent number: 9101763
    Abstract: A particle beam irradiation apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a vacuum duct that forms a vacuum region through which the charged particle beam passes, a vacuum window through which the charged particle beam is launched from the vacuum region, a scanning electromagnet that scans the charged particle beam; a monitoring apparatus including a position monitor that detects the passing position of a charged particle beam and the beam size thereof, a low-scattering gas filling chamber including the monitoring apparatus, and an irradiation management apparatus that controls irradiation of the charged particle beam; the particle beam irradiation apparatus is characterized in that the low-scattering gas filling chamber is changeably disposed in such a manner that the beam-axis-direction positional relationship between the monitoring apparatus and the vacuum window is a desired one and in that the low-scattering gas filling chamber is filled with a low-scattering gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Hisashi Harada, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose, Taizo Honda, Yukiko Yamada, Yuehu Pu
  • Patent number: 9067066
    Abstract: A control unit is provided with, a retaining section that retains a plurality of operation patterns each being a pattern of operation to be periodically repeated by an accelerator, the operation patterns having respective operation conditions adjusted for different emission times of an particle beam, to cause a deflection electromagnet in the accelerator to have an intended magnetic field intensity even under a presence of a hysteresis; a reading section for a plurality of slices of an irradiation target in a depth direction, which reads an irradiation condition for each of the slices; a selection section that selects the operation pattern suitable for each of the slices, on the basis of the read irradiation condition; and a main control section that controls, for each of the slices, the accelerator on the basis of the selected operation pattern and an irradiation device on the basis of the irradiation condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Yamada, Hisashi Harada, Taizo Honda, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose
  • Patent number: 9067065
    Abstract: The particle beam irradiation apparatus comprises: a position monitor that detects a passing position of a charged particle beam; and an irradiation control apparatus that calculates a distance from a predetermined reference point to the position monitor, calculates a beam irradiation position on an irradiation subject, and controls irradiation of the beam; wherein the irradiation control apparatus includes a position calculation apparatus that calculates the beam irradiation position, based on a beam position detected by the position monitor, a scanning starting point distance information on a distance from a irradiation plane of the irradiation subject to a scanning starting point, of the beam, in a scanning electromagnet, and a position monitor distance information on a distance, from the irradiation plane to the position monitor, that is calculated based on the calculated distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Yamada, Hisashi Harada, Takaaki Iwata, Toshihiro Otani, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Taizo Honda
  • Patent number: 8961287
    Abstract: A server device selects by lot one event from among a plurality of events including an encounter event with an enemy character present in a predetermined area in a network game, accepts from a user a command indicating action taken on the enemy character, when the encounter event is selected by lot, performs a process on the enemy character, based on the accepted command, and stores a status of the enemy character obtained after processed. In addition, the server device selects by lot an encounter event for re-encountering an enemy character encountered in past, with a predetermined probability, reads from a memory a status of the re-encountered enemy character obtained at a past encounter, and sets the status as an initial status of the re-encountered enemy character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Urushihara, Kazuhiro Yoshimi, Toshihiro Otani
  • Patent number: 8933420
    Abstract: A particle beam therapy system comprising a treatment table, a treatment table control unit and an irradiation control unit configured to output an instruction for controlling the treatment table control unit, an accelerator and a scanning electromagnet, wherein after the treatment table control unit controls the treatment table so as for a patient isocenter which is reference position of an affected area of a patient to move to a position of an irradiation isocenter which is set at a position which is closer to an irradiation nozzle than an equipment isocenter which is reference of positional relation of the irradiation nozzle and the treatment table, the irradiation control unit outputs an instruction for irradiating the patient with a particle beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Hisashi Harada, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose, Taizo Honda, Yukiko Yamada, Yuehu Pu
  • Publication number: 20140374624
    Abstract: In a particle beam therapy system which scans a particle beam and irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation position of an irradiation subject and has a dose monitoring device for measuring a dose of the particle beam and an ionization chamber smaller than the dose monitoring device, the ionization chamber measuring a dose of a particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device, the dose of the particle beam irradiated by the dose monitoring device is measured; the dose of the particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device is measured by the small ionization chamber; and a correction coefficient of the dose measured by the dose monitoring device corresponding to the irradiation position is found based on the dose of the particle beam measured by the small ionization chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro OTANI, Hisashi HARADA, Masahiro IKEDA, Kazushi HANAKAWA, Taizo HONDA
  • Publication number: 20140357339
    Abstract: A server device selects by lot one event from among a plurality of events including an encounter event with an enemy character present in a predetermined area in a network game, accepts from a user a command indicating action taken on the enemy character, when the encounter event is selected by lot, performs a process on the enemy character, based on the accepted command, and stores a status of the enemy character obtained after processed. In addition, the server device selects by lot an encounter event for re-encountering an enemy character encountered in past, with a predetermined probability, reads from a memory a status of the re-encountered enemy character obtained at a past encounter, and sets the status as an initial status of the re-encountered enemy character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: DeNA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke URUSHIHARA, Kazuhiro YOSHIMI, Toshihiro OTANI
  • Patent number: 8884256
    Abstract: A septum magnet includes a yoke that can be separated at the approximately center portion thereof in the axis direction; a septum coil; a return coil; and a vacuum duct that is inserted between the septum coil and the return coil. The septum coil is formed in such a way as to be able to be separated into a first portion and a second portion in response to separation of the yoke; and in a space between the septum coil and the vacuum duct, there is provided an auxiliary coil, in two portions of which, corresponding to the first portion and the second portion of the septum coil, electric currents flow in opposite direction to each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo Sugahara, Katsuhisa Yoshida, Toshihiro Otani, Shinichi Masuno, Fumihiko Kashima
  • Publication number: 20140323793
    Abstract: A control unit is provided with, a retaining section that retains a plurality of operation patterns each being a pattern of operation to be periodically repeated by an accelerator, the operation patterns having respective operation conditions adjusted for different emission times of an particle beam, to cause a deflection electromagnet in the accelerator to have an intended magnetic field intensity even under a presence of a hysteresis; a reading section for a plurality of slices of an irradiation target in a depth direction, which reads an irradiation condition for each of the slices; a selection section that selects the operation pattern suitable for each of the slices, on the basis of the read irradiation condition; and a main control section that controls, for each of the slices, the accelerator on the basis of the selected operation pattern and an irradiation device on the basis of the irradiation condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Yamada, Hisashi Harada, Taizo Honda, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose
  • Patent number: 8854048
    Abstract: In a particle beam therapy system which scans a particle beam and irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation position of an irradiation subject and has a dose monitoring device for measuring a dose of the particle beam and an ionization chamber smaller than the dose monitoring device, the ionization chamber measuring a dose of a particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device, the dose of the particle beam irradiated by the dose monitoring device is measured; the dose of the particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device is measured by the small ionization chamber; and a correction coefficient of the dose measured by the dose monitoring device corresponding to the irradiation position is found based on the dose of the particle beam measured by the small ionization chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otani, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Taizo Honda
  • Publication number: 20140235922
    Abstract: A particle beam treatment system includes an accelerator system that accelerates a charged particle beam and a beam transport system that transports a high-energy beam emitted from the accelerator to an irradiation location, wherein the beam transport system is provided with at least one steering electromagnet and at least one beam position monitor corresponding to the at least one steering electromagnet, and wherein the at least one beam position monitor supplies an excitation current for correcting a beam position, which periodically varies, to the at least one steering electromagnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi Hanakawa, Kengo Sugahara, Shuhei Odawara, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Toshihiro Otani, Taizo Honda, Katsuhisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140228615
    Abstract: A particle beam irradiation apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a vacuum duct that forms a vacuum region through which the charged particle beam passes, a vacuum window through which the charged particle beam is launched from the vacuum region, a scanning electromagnet that scans the charged particle beam; a monitoring apparatus including a position monitor that detects the passing position of a charged particle beam and the beam size thereof, a low-scattering gas filling chamber including the monitoring apparatus, and an irradiation management apparatus that controls irradiation of the charged particle beam; the particle beam irradiation apparatus is characterized in that the low-scattering gas filling chamber is changeably disposed in such a manner that the beam-axis-direction positional relationship between the monitoring apparatus and the vacuum window is a desired one and in that the low-scattering gas filling chamber is filled with a low-scattering gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Hisashi Harada, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose, Taizo Honda, Yukiko Yamada, Yuehu Pu
  • Publication number: 20140187847
    Abstract: A particle beam therapy system comprising a treatment table, a treatment table control unit and an irradiation control unit configured to output an instruction for controlling the treatment table control unit, an accelerator and a scanning electromagnet, wherein after the treatment table control unit controls the treatment table so as for a patient isocenter which is reference position of an affected area of a patient to move to a position of an irradiation isocenter which is set at a position which is closer to an irradiation nozzle than an equipment isocenter which is reference of positional relation of the irradiation nozzle and the treatment table, the irradiation control unit outputs an instruction for irradiating the patient with a particle beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Hisashi Harada, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose, Taizo Honda, Yukiko Yamada, Yuehu Pu