Patents by Inventor Yasushi Goto

Yasushi Goto 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).

  • Patent number: 10288564
    Abstract: A reflection characteristic measurement system includes: a hand-held reflection characteristic measurement apparatus including a light receiver that receives reflected light; and a guide member that supports the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus, wherein the guide member includes: a plate-shaped support part having a support surface to support the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus; and a white calibration plate applicable to white calibration of the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus, the support part includes: an elongated hole extending in one direction along the support surface; and a guide structure provided to guide the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus so as to enable the apparatus to move along the one direction, the light receiver is provided on the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus so as to move along a predetermined moving path, the moving path of the light receiver extends in the one direction, and the white calibration plate is p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Morikawa, Yasutaka Tanimura, Yasushi Goto, Yusaku Kawahara, Shinji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180299378
    Abstract: A reflection characteristic measurement system includes: a hand-held reflection characteristic measurement apparatus including a light receiver that receives reflected light; and a guide member that supports the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus, wherein the guide member includes: a plate-shaped support part having a support surface to support the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus; and a white calibration plate applicable to white calibration of the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus, the support part includes: an elongated hole extending in one direction along the support surface; and a guide structure provided to guide the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus so as to enable the apparatus to move along the one direction, the light receiver is provided on the reflection characteristic measurement apparatus so as to move along a predetermined moving path, the moving path of the light receiver extends in the one direction, and the white calibration plate is p
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Takuma Morikawa, Yasutaka Tanimura, Yasushi Goto, Yusaku Kawahara, Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9681012
    Abstract: A color measurement device acquires an image of a relative position calibration chart. The relative position calibration chart includes a calibration figure having a given calibration feature that has a position that is detectable along at least one of a first and a second direction. A color measurement of the relative position calibration chart is performed. Relative position relationship-related information is derived based on the calibration feature in the image of the relative position calibration chart and the calibration feature in the color measurement of the relative position calibration chart. A color of each patch of a number of patches of a color chart is measured at a position corresponding to one of the patches while correcting the position of the patch based on the position relationship-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Goto, Yoshiroh Nagai
  • Publication number: 20170078505
    Abstract: A color measurement device acquires an image of a relative position calibration chart. The relative position calibration chart includes a calibration figure having a given calibration feature that has a position that is detectable along at least one of a first and a second direction. A color measurement of the relative position calibration chart is performed. Relative position relationship-related information is derived based on the calibration feature in the image of the relative position calibration chart and the calibration feature in the color measurement of the relative position calibration chart. A color of each patch of a number of patches of a color chart is measured at a position corresponding to one of the patches while correcting the position of the patch based on the position relationship-related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Goto, Yoshiroh Nagai
  • Patent number: 9590451
    Abstract: An autonomous power supply system includes a generation control circuit which controls power generation efficiency of a power generation element, a group of storage elements for charging electric power generated by the power generation element, and a charging control circuit which controls a charging operation and a discharging operation of the storage element group. The storage element group includes a primary storage element for supplying electric power to the generation control circuit and the charging control circuit, and secondary storage elements for supplying electric power to a loading device. The electric power generated by the power generation element charges the primary storage element preferentially, and the secondary storage elements subsequent to the primary storage element. A capacity value of the primary storage element is set to be smaller than a capacity value of the secondary storage elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Fujimori, Yasushi Goto, Hideaki Kurata, Hideaki Takano
  • Patent number: 9395227
    Abstract: It is provided with a reactor water-level measurement system being possible to measure water-level in a reactor core regardless of a state in the reactor core. The reactor water-level measurement system includes a core bottom water-level measuring device that includes a heating element, a heat insulating element installed by surrounding part of the heating element in a height direction of the heating element, and a temperature difference measuring element that measures a temperature difference between an insulated portion of the heating element surrounded by the heat insulating element and a non-insulated portion not surrounded by the heat insulating element, a water-level evaluation device that evaluates a water level of a reactor based on the temperature difference, wherein the core bottom water-level measuring device measures at least a water level from a lower end of a reactor core contained in a reactor pressure vessel to a bottom of the reactor pressure vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kenjyo, Yasushi Goto, Toshiaki Ito
  • Patent number: 9366687
    Abstract: A high-performance angular rate detecting device is provided. A driving part including a drive frame and a Coriolis frame is leviated by at least two fixing beams which share a fixed end and are extending in a direction orthogonal to a driving direction, thereby vibrating the driving part. Even when a substrate is deformed by mounting or heat fluctuation, internal stress generated to the fixed beam and a supporting beam is small, thereby maintaining a vibrating state such as resonance frequency and vibration amplitude constant. Therefore, a high-performance angular rate detecting device which is robust to changes in mounting environment can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Heewon Jeong, Yasushi Goto
  • Publication number: 20150008872
    Abstract: An autonomous power supply system includes a generation control circuit which controls power generation efficiency of a power generation element, a group of storage elements for charging electric power generated by the power generation element, and a charging control circuit which controls a charging operation and a discharging operation of the storage element group. The storage element group includes a primary storage element for supplying electric power to the generation control circuit and the charging control circuit, and secondary storage elements for supplying electric power to a loading device. The electric power generated by the power generation element charges the primary storage element preferentially, and the secondary storage elements subsequent to the primary storage element. A capacity value of the primary storage element is set to be smaller than a capacity value of the secondary storage elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa FUJIMORI, Yasushi GOTO, Hideaki KURATA, Hideaki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20140355730
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reactor oscillation power range monitor includes: a receiving unit configured to receive LPRM signals issued by LPRM detectors differing in vertical position out of a plurality of LPRM detectors placed in a reactor core; a specification unit configured to specify any exclusion signal which meets an exclusion condition out of the received LPRM signals; an estimation unit configured to estimate an alternative signal for the exclusion signal based on a regular signal which does not meet the exclusion condition out of the received LPRM signals; an arithmetic averaging unit configured to output an arithmetically averaged signal obtained by arithmetically averaging the regular signal and the alternative signal; a time averaging unit configured to output a time-averaged signal obtained by time-averaging the arithmetically averaged signal; and a calculation unit configured to output a standard value obtained by dividing the arithmetically averaged signal by the time-averaged signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: SEIGO SATO, TADASHI MIYAZAKI, TOSHIAKI ITO, NAOTAKA ODA, YASUSHI GOTO, YUTAKA TAKEUCHI, KAZUKI YANO, NORIO SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20140318237
    Abstract: It is provided with a reactor water-level measurement system being possible to measure water-level in a reactor core regardless of a state in the reactor core. The reactor water-level measurement system includes a core bottom water-level measuring device that includes a heating element, a heat insulating element installed by surrounding part of the heating element in a height direction of the heating element, and a temperature difference measuring element that measures a temperature difference between an insulated portion of the heating element surrounded by the heat insulating element and a non-insulated portion not surrounded by the heat insulating element, a water-level evaluation device that evaluates a water level of a reactor based on the temperature difference, wherein the core bottom water-level measuring device measures at least a water level from a lower end of a reactor core contained in a reactor pressure vessel to a bottom of the reactor pressure vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kenjyo, Yasushi Goto, Toshiaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20140298903
    Abstract: The water-level and temperature measurement apparatus 10 includes monitoring devices 121, - - - , 12n that receives n water-level information and n temperature information, measures n water-levels and n temperatures, and determines whether a water-level detection function and a temperature detection function in each channel are lost or not based on electrical physical quantities, by using water-level and temperature detection devices 111, 112, 113, 114 which includes a detection unit 20 to detect water-level information and temperature information from thermocouple and heater wire, and a calculation processing device 13 that obtains at least one water-level measurement result and at least one temperature measurement result by using n water-level measurement results, n temperature measurement results, water-level detection function loss determination result in each channel, and temperature detection function loss determination result in each channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasushi Goto, Yuka Takada, Fujio Shiraishi, Koichiro Isoda, Toshiaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20140270037
    Abstract: A reactor water level measurement system including: a condensation tank connected with a steam region of a pressure vessel; a reference pipe with one end connected with the condensation tank; fluctuation pipes with one end connected with the pressure vessel; pressure difference measurement type water gauges that detect the water head difference of the reference pipe and the fluctuation pipes and that are connected with the other ends of the reference pipe and the fluctuation pipes; non-pressure difference water gauges that detect the water level of the pressure vessel; and a computation device that selects a pressure difference type water gauge or a non-pressure difference type water gauge, in accordance with a condition of the containment vessel or of the pressure vessel and that indicates/records the water level of the pressure vessel based on the detection result of the selected water gauge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuka Matsuo, Fujio Shiraishi, Yasushi Goto, Toshiaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20140174180
    Abstract: A high-performance angular rate detecting device is provided. A driving part including a drive frame and a Coriolis frame is leviated by at least two fixing beams which share a fixed end and are extending in a direction orthogonal to a driving direction, thereby vibrating the driving part. Even when a substrate is deformed by mounting or heat fluctuation, internal stress generated to the fixed beam and a supporting beam is small, thereby maintaining a vibrating state such as resonance frequency and vibration amplitude constant. Therefore, a high-performance angular rate detecting device which is robust to changes in mounting environment can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Heewon JEONG, Yasushi GOTO
  • Patent number: 8616058
    Abstract: A high-performance angular rate detecting device is provided. A driving part including a drive frame and a Coriolis frame is levitated by at least two fixing beams which share a fixed end and are extending in a direction orthogonal to a driving direction, thereby vibrating the driving part. Even when a substrate is deformed by mounting or heat fluctuation, internal stress generated to the fixed beam and a supporting beam is small, thereby maintaining a vibrating state such as resonance frequency and vibration amplitude constant. Therefore, a high-performance angular rate detecting device which is robust to changes in mounting environment can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Heewon Jeong, Yasushi Goto
  • Patent number: 8605851
    Abstract: To provide a rod block monitor in which irrespective of the selection or non-selection of a control rod, such a process is repeatedly executed that gain adjustment is performed at fixed intervals at all times to match a local area average value of signals of neutron detectors surrounding the control rod with a nuclear reactor average power and a block level appropriate to the local area average value of the neutron detector signals after the gain adjustment is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naotaka Oda, Yasushi Goto, Tadashi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8429969
    Abstract: An inertial sensor capable of making pressure of a space in which an inertial sensor such as an acceleration sensor is placed to be higher than that during a sealing step and improving reliability is provided. The inertial sensor can be achieved by means of making an inertial sensor including a substrate, a movable portion on the substrate, a cap member which seals the movable portion so as to cover the movable portion, wherein a gas-generating material is applied to the movable portion side of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoko Yamanaka, Heewon Jeong, Takashi Hattori, Yasushi Goto
  • Patent number: 8427177
    Abstract: A technique in which a false detection and a wrong diagnosis can be suppressed in a capacitance sensor represented by an acceleration sensor is provided. A first capacitative element and a second capacitative element, which configure a capacitance detection unit, and a third capacitative element and a fourth capacitative element, which configure a forced oscillation generation unit, are electrically separated from each other. That is, the diagnosis movable electrode that configures the third capacitative element and the fourth capacitative element is formed integrally with the movable part. On the other hand, the diagnosis fixed electrode and the diagnosis fixed electrode are electrically separated from the detection fixed electrode and the detection fixed electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Heewon Jeong, Kiyoko Yamanaka, Yasushi Goto, Toshiaki Nakamura, Masahide Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130020880
    Abstract: An energy storage circuit includes a first capacitor connected with a power generating element via a first diode and a second capacitor connected with the power generating element via a second diode and a switch. The conduction state of the switch is controlled using the potential difference between its second and third electrodes (driving voltage V). The driving voltage when the switch enters its conductive state is higher than the driving voltage when the switch enters its non-conductive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo ASAI, Atsushi Isobe, Kenichi Osada, Yasushi Goto, Hideaki Takano
  • Patent number: 8327706
    Abstract: A high-performance angular rate detecting device is provided. A driving part including a drive frame and a Coriolis frame is levitated by at least two fixing beams which share a fixed end and are extending in a direction orthogonal to a driving direction, thereby vibrating the driving part. Even when a substrate is deformed by mounting or heat fluctuation, internal stress generated to the fixed beam and a supporting beam is small, thereby maintaining a vibrating state such as resonance frequency and vibration amplitude constant. Therefore, a high-performance angular rate detecting device which is robust to changes in mounting environment can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Heewon Jeong, Yasushi Goto
  • Patent number: 8243261
    Abstract: An optical property measurement apparatus includes: a main body which includes a plane-shape surface that is so disposed as to face the display portion; an optical sensor which receives light directed from an opening that is formed through the plane-shape surface; and a support portion which is disposed on a side of the plane-shape surface and keeps a constant distance between the display portion and the plane-shape surface; wherein a light shield portion that is so disposed as to enclose a circumferential area of the opening of the plane-shape surface and shields entrance of light from a region other than a measurement target region of the display portion when the optical property is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumoto, Shinji Yamamoto, Kenji Imura, Kazuya Kiyoi, Yoshiyuki Nagashima, Yasushi Goto