Patents by Inventor Yasunori Chiba

Yasunori Chiba 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: 20240149380
    Abstract: Provided are a processing device, a detecting system, a processing method, a program, and a storage medium that obtain a position of a weld portion of a joined body with higher accuracy. A processing device according to an embodiment receives intensity data of a reflected wave obtained by transmitting an ultrasonic wave along a first direction toward a joined body. The device designates a weld portion of the joined body by using the intensity data. The device calculates a first center position of the weld portion in a first plane crossing the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Yasunori CHIBA, Masahiro SAITO, Takuya ATSUMI, Shin MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11927570
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an estimation device includes a processor. The processor accepts information. The information is acquired by each of a plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a second direction toward a weld portion and receiving a reflected wave. The ultrasonic sensors are arranged in a first direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processor estimates a range of the weld portion in the second direction based on an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the second direction. The processor calculates a centroid position of an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the first direction for each of a plurality of points in the second direction, and estimates a range of the weld portion in the first direction based on a plurality of the centroid positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Yasunori Chiba, Akira Ushijima, Toshiyuki Ono, Atsushi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11852611
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inspection system includes a probe and a controller. The probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensors arranged in a first direction. The probe contacts a weld portion by moving in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the weld portion and receives a reflected wave. The controller detects a joint and a non-joint at a plurality of points along the first direction of the weld portion based on the plurality of reflected waves. The controller adjusts an angle of the probe around a third direction based on a number of the joints or the non-joints detected for the plurality of points. The third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and crosses the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Ushijima, Masahiro Saito, Yasunori Chiba, Shin Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230104515
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing device receives a detection result of an intensity of a reflected wave detected by a detector including a detecting part that transmits an ultrasonic wave and receives the reflected wave, and a propagating part through which the ultrasonic wave and the reflected wave propagate, and performs a first determination of determining a state of the detecting part and a second determination of determining a state of the propagating part based on the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiromasa Takahashi, Masahiro Saito, Yasunori Chiba
  • Patent number: 11571473
    Abstract: An examination system that recognizes a glycosylated antigen in Dane particles of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and a neutralizing antibody that recognizes the glycosylated antigen and that exhibits an infection-inhibiting activity. It was elucidated that Dane particles are associated with specific glycan structures, and this enabled the construction of a new detection system for infectious, i.e., nucleic acid-containing, hepatitis B virus particles and the provision of a neutralizing antibody that recognizes a glycosylated antigen and that exhibits an infection-inhibiting activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA
    Inventors: Hisashi Narimatsu, Kiyohiko Angata, Hiroyuki Kaji, Atsushi Kuno, Takashi Sato, Yasunori Chiba, Akira Togayachi, Hiroki Shimizu, Maki Sogabe, Takanori Wagatsuma, Masashi Mizokami, Masaaki Korenaga, Kazuto Tajiri, Tatsuhiko Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20230024687
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data processing device receives welding device data from a welding device. The welding device makes a joined body by joining a plurality of parts. The welding device data includes a welding device ID for identifying the welding device. The data processing device receives inspection data. The inspection data includes position data and angle data. The position data is of a position of a weld portion of the joined body. The position data are calculated from a result of a probe of the joined body. The probe uses an ultrasonic wave. The angle data is of an angle of the weld portion. The data processing device associates the inspection data with the welding device data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11559894
    Abstract: An object handling control device includes one or more processors configured to acquire at least object information and status information representing an initial position and a destination of an object; set, when a grasper grasping the object moves from the initial position to the destination, a first region, a second region, and a third region in accordance with the object information and the status information; and calculate a moving route along which the object is moved from the initial position to the destination with reference to the first region, the second region, and the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Oka, Yasunori Chiba, Tetsuya Masuda
  • Publication number: 20230012631
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an estimation device includes a processor. The processor accepts information. The information is acquired by each of a plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a second direction toward a weld portion and receiving a reflected wave. The ultrasonic sensors are arranged in a first direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processor estimates a range of the weld portion in the second direction based on an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the second direction. The processor calculates a centroid position of an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the first direction for each of a plurality of points in the second direction, and estimates a range of the weld portion in the first direction based on a plurality of the centroid positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Akira USHIJIMA, Toshiyuki ONO, Atsushi MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230012625
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing system sets a detector to a prescribed position. The detector includes a plurality of detection elements arranged along a first direction and a second direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processing system causes the detector to perform a probe of a weld portion of a joined body. The probe includes a transmission of an ultrasonic wave and a detection of a reflected wave. The processing system calculates a center position of the weld portion in a first plane along the first and second directions based on intensity data. The intensity data is of an intensity of the reflected wave obtained by the probe. The processing system performs a position adjustment of moving the detector along the first plane to reduce a distance between the center position and a position of the detector in the first plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230020518
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing system teaches an operation to a robot. The robot includes a detector including detection elements arranged along first and second directions, and a manipulator to which the detector is mounted. The processing system performs position teaching processing. The position teaching processing includes causing the detector to perform a probe of a weld portion of a joined body. The probe includes a transmission of an ultrasonic wave and a detection of a reflected wave. The position teaching processing includes calculating a center position of the weld portion in a first plane based on first intensity data of an intensity of the reflected wave, setting a teaching point of the robot based on a first position of the detector, and moving the detector along the first plane to a second position, and setting the teaching point based on the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori CHIBA, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230001582
    Abstract: A control device according to an embodiment receives first posture data of a posture of a first robot. The first robot includes a first manipulator and a first end effector. Furthermore, the control device sets the posture of the first robot based on the first posture data and causes the first robot to perform a first task on a first member. The first posture data is generated based on second posture data. The second posture data is of a posture when a second robot that includes a second manipulator and a second end effector performs a second task on the first member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11498210
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an object handling device causes a hand to grasp, convey, and place an object in a container. The object handling device includes one or more processors configured to calculate an expanded interference region by combining an interference region of the hand interfering with another object and an interference region of the grasped object interfering with the another object; calculate at least a placement position between the placement position and a placement posture of the object in the container in accordance with information on an obstacle in the container and the expanded interference region; and calculate a release position at which the hand releases the object, on the basis of the placement position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Oka, Yasunori Chiba
  • Patent number: 11480549
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an estimation device includes a processor. The processor accepts information. The information is acquired by each of a plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a second direction toward a weld portion and receiving a reflected wave. The ultrasonic sensors are arranged in a first direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processor estimates a range of the weld portion in the second direction based on an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the second direction. The processor calculates a centroid position of an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the first direction for each of a plurality of points in the second direction, and estimates a range of the weld portion in the first direction based on a plurality of the centroid positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Yasunori Chiba, Akira Ushijima, Toshiyuki Ono, Atsushi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20210389279
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inspection system includes a probe and a controller. The probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensors arranged in a first direction. The probe contacts a weld portion by moving in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the weld portion and receives a reflected wave. The controller detects a joint and a non-joint at a plurality of points along the first direction of the weld portion based on the plurality of reflected waves. The controller adjusts an angle of the probe around a third direction based on a number of the joints or the non-joints detected for the plurality of points. The third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and crosses the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira USHIJIMA, Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Shin MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210379689
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device controls a welding device performing resistance welding. When an inspection value satisfies a first condition, the control device modifies a setting value for the resistance welding and causes the welding device to perform the resistance welding. The inspection value is obtained by an inspection of a weld zone formed by the resistance welding. The control device does not cause the welding device to perform the resistance welding when the inspection value satisfies a second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11131652
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inspection system includes a probe and a controller. The probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensors arranged in a first direction. The probe contacts a weld portion by moving in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the weld portion and receives a reflected wave. The controller detects a joint and a non-joint at a plurality of points along the first direction of the weld portion based on the plurality of reflected waves. The controller adjusts an angle of the probe around a third direction based on a number of the joints or the non-joints detected for the plurality of points. The third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and crosses the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Ushijima, Masahiro Saito, Yasunori Chiba, Shin Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20210283246
    Abstract: An examination system that recognizes a glycosylated antigen in Dane particles of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and a neutralizing antibody that recognizes the glycosylated antigen and that exhibits an infection-inhibiting activity. It was elucidated that Dane particles are associated with specific glycan structures, and this enabled the construction of a new detection system for infectious, i.e., nucleic acid-containing, hepatitis B virus particles and the provision of a neutralizing antibody that recognizes a glycosylated antigen and that exhibits an infection-inhibiting activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA
    Inventors: Hisashi NARIMATSU, Kiyohiko ANGATA, Hiroyuki KAJI, Atsushi KUNO, Takashi SATO, Yasunori CHIBA, Akira TOGAYACHI, Hiroki SHIMIZU, Maki SOGABE, Takanori WAGATSUMA, Masashi MIZOKAMI, Masaaki KORENAGA, Kazuto TAJIRI, Tatsuhiko OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210247808
    Abstract: An information terminal including a housing projection section which is provided at a position shifted to one end side of a terminal main body in a longitudinal direction while projecting in a thickness direction of the terminal main body, and in which a device is housed, and an expansion connector section which is used to connect an expansion board, in which the housing projection section includes an inclined section downwardly inclined from the one end side toward an other end side in the longitudinal direction, and the expansion connector section is provided in the inclined section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki MOCHIZUKI, Yasunori CHIBA, Gu DONG, Yasunori USUI
  • Patent number: 10936836
    Abstract: A portable terminal includes a device body, a grip section located closer to a first end than to a second end of the device body, and a projecting section located closer to the second end than to the first end of the device body. An operation switch is provided between the projection section and the first end of the device body. The operation switch includes a pressing surface that is at an angle with respect to a thickness direction of the device body to face outward from the device body and in a direction toward the second end of the device body. The grip section includes a sloped surface provided between the operation switch and the first end of the device body. And the sloped surface faces away from a direction faced by the pressing surface of the operation switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Ogasawara, Shinya Okumura, Yoshiaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10929624
    Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section provided as one end of a terminal main body and capable of being gripped by one hand of a user in a gripping style where the user places the thumb on a first surface of the terminal main body and holds a second surface on the rear side thereof by the index and middle fingers, in which the second surface has a first raised portion provided such that a first vertex portion is positioned between the index and middle fingers, and a second raised portion having a second vertex portion such that the index finger is interposed between the first and second vertex portions, and in which a switch section is provided such that a pressing target portion is exposed to a sloped surface area of the second raised portion on a side opposite to a side where the index finger is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Chiba, Satoshi Ogasawara, Shinya Okumura, Yoshiaki Mochizuki