Patents by Inventor Yasushi Muragishi

Yasushi Muragishi 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: 9745138
    Abstract: The vibration device includes a base, a movable bench, a first horizontal excitation unit, a second horizontal excitation unit, and a vertical excitation unit. The vibration device includes a first middle bench and a second middle bench between the base and the movable bench. The vibration device includes first horizontal elastic support units, second horizontal elastic support units, and vertical elastic support units that elastically connect the base, the first middle bench, the second middle bench, and the movable bench sequentially in the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction, and the vertical direction. If overall device is supposed as a first mass body, a second mass body, and a third mass body with the first horizontal elastic support units and the second horizontal elastic support units as boundaries, respective barycentric positions of these mass bodies are almost the same in the vertical direction and horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kimura, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 9315330
    Abstract: A vibration device includes a base, a movable bench elastically supported with respect to the base, a first horizontal excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a first horizontal direction, a second horizontal excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a second horizontal direction that crosses the first horizontal direction, a vertical excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a vertical direction, and first and second middle benches between the base and the movable bench, wherein first to third plate-like spring members elastically connect the base, the first and second middle benches, and the movable bench sequentially in the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction, and the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kimura, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Publication number: 20150360873
    Abstract: The vibration device includes a base, a movable bench, a first horizontal excitation unit, a second horizontal excitation unit, and a vertical excitation unit. The vibration device includes a first middle bench and a second middle bench between the base and the movable bench. The vibration device includes first horizontal elastic support units, second horizontal elastic support units, and vertical elastic support units that elastically connect the base, the first middle bench, the second middle bench, and the movable bench sequentially in the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction, and the vertical direction. If overall device is supposed as a first mass body, a second mass body, and a third mass body with the first horizontal elastic support units and the second horizontal elastic support units as boundaries, respective barycentric positions of these mass bodies are almost the same in the vertical direction and horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kimura, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 9075418
    Abstract: A damping device includes a calculator calculating a pseudo vibration to cancel a source vibration transmitted from a vibration source to a position to be damped, using an adaptive control algorithm. The canceling vibration is generated according to the pseudo vibration. A vibration detector detects an error vibration remaining at the position. The adaptive control algorithm is adapted by learning to reduce the error vibration. A frequency recognizer recognizes a frequency of the source vibration from a signal related to the vibration source. The frequency of the vibration is used to determine a frequency of the pseudo vibration. A phase difference identifier identifies a phase difference between the error vibration and the canceling vibration according to the pseudo vibration, and a frequency corrector corrects, according to the phase difference, the frequency of the vibration to eliminate the phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tomizaki, Hideaki Moriya, Takeo Ito, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 9038815
    Abstract: An article sorting and conveying device that conveys articles by the vibrations of a movable body provided through an elastic support unit, includes a first vibration unit that imparts a periodic vibration force to the movable body in a direction inclined from a vertical direction; a second vibration unit that imparts a periodic vibration force in a direction crossing the periodic vibration force by the first vibration unit; and a vibration control unit that causes a periodic vibration force imparted by each vibration unit to have a phase difference and occur simultaneously at the same frequency, and that creates an elliptical vibration trajectory in the movable body. The articles are sorted and conveyed on the movable body by setting the vibration trajectory of the movable body by the vibration control unit such that articles having a different coefficient of friction are conveyed in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kimura, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 8892338
    Abstract: A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Hideaki Moriya, Yushi Sato, Takashi Fukunaga, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takayoshi Fujii, Takashi Onoue, Masaaki Narihisa
  • Patent number: 8818625
    Abstract: A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Hideaki Moriya, Yushi Sato, Takashi Fukunaga, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takayoshi Fujii, Takashi Onoue, Masaaki Narihisa
  • Publication number: 20140190791
    Abstract: A vibration device includes a base, a movable bench elastically supported with respect to the base, a first horizontal excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a first horizontal direction, a second horizontal excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a second horizontal direction that crosses the first horizontal direction, a vertical excitation unit that vibrates the movable bench in a vertical direction, and first and second middle benches between the base and the movable bench, wherein first to third plate-like spring members elastically connect the base, the first and second middle benches, and the movable bench sequentially in the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction, and the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kimura, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 8700261
    Abstract: Provided is an active damping device (X) that suppresses vibrations of an object (T) to be damped by utilizing a reaction force generated when an auxiliary mass (1) is driven by an actuator (2). The active damping device (X) includes a stiffness/damping controller (5) that multiplies the displacement and the operating speed of the actuator (2) by the stiffness gain (k1a) and the damping gain (c1a) and provides feedback of the multiplication result so that the natural frequency of a damping device machine system (X1) becomes equal to the excitation frequency (?) of the object (T) to be damped and the damping device machine system (X1) is controlled to have properties of counteracting the damping thereof. The stiffness/damping controller (5) is configured to adjust the stiffness gain (k1a) and the damping gain (c1a) according to the varying excitation frequency (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Kenta Adachi
  • Publication number: 20140041987
    Abstract: An article sorting and conveying device that conveys articles by the vibrations of a movable body provided through an elastic support means, includes a first vibration means that imparts a periodic vibration force to the movable body in a direction inclined from a vertical direction; a second vibration means that imparts a periodic vibration force in a direction crossing the periodic vibration force by the first vibration means; and a vibration control means that causes a periodic vibration force imparted by each vibration means to have a phase difference and occur simultaneously at the same frequency, and that creates an elliptical vibration trajectory in the movable body. The articles are sorted and conveyed on the movable body by setting the vibration trajectory of the movable body by the vibration control means such that articles having a different coefficient of friction are conveyed in different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kimura, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 8626386
    Abstract: A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Hideaki Moriya, Yushi Sato, Takashi Fukunaga, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takayoshi Fujii, Takashi Onoue, Masaaki Narihisa
  • Patent number: 8560129
    Abstract: [Object] To predetermine a target vibration level and keep vibration generated at a position at which vibration is to be controlled equal to or smaller than a target vibration level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Yushi Sato, Takeo Ito, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Patent number: 8504239
    Abstract: A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Hideaki Moriya, Yushi Sato, Takashi Fukunaga, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takayoshi Fujii, Takashi Onoue, Masaaki Narihisa
  • Publication number: 20130184935
    Abstract: Provided is an active damping device (X) that suppresses vibrations of an object (T) to be damped by utilizing a reaction force generated when an auxiliary mass (1) is driven by an actuator (2). The active damping device (X) includes a stiffness/damping controller (5) that multiplies the displacement and the operating speed of the actuator (2) by the stiffness gain (k1a) and the damping gain (c1a) and provides feedback of the multiplication result so that the natural frequency of a damping device machine system (X1) becomes equal to the excitation frequency (?) of the object (T) to be damped and the damping device machine system (X1) is controlled to have properties of counteracting the damping thereof. The stiffness/damping controller (5) is configured to adjust the stiffness gain (k1a) and the damping gain (c1a) according to the varying excitation frequency (?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Kenta Adachi
  • Patent number: 8471502
    Abstract: A vibration damping apparatus including reference wave production section that produces a reference wave; a fundamental order adaptive algorithm block that calculates fundamental order adaptive filter factors from a vibration detection signal and the reference wave and produces a fundamental order vibration damping current instruction; an amplitude detection section that calculates a peak current value of the fundamental order vibration damping current instruction; and a fundamental order current excess detection section that derives a fundamental order current upper limit value from the fundamental frequency to produce a fundamental order current upper limit excess signal that is output to the fundamental order adaptive algorithm block, which revises the fundamental order adaptive filter factors in a direction in which the vibration damping current instruction is limited within a range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Takeshi Tomizaki, Takeo Ito, Yasushi Muragishi, Takayoshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 8381579
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vibration damping device which can enhance a vibration damping effect even in a case where a vibration damping target position and a vibration damping force generation position are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yushi Sato, Hideaki Moriya, Takeo Ito, Takayoshi Fujii, Takashi Fukunaga, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hidetoshi Katada, Takeshi Tomizaki, Takashi Onoue, Yasushi Muragishi
  • Publication number: 20120293094
    Abstract: A vibration damping apparatus including reference wave production section that produces a reference wave; a fundamental order adaptive algorithm block that calculates fundamental order adaptive filter factors from a vibration detection signal and the reference wave and produces a fundamental order vibration damping current instruction; an amplitude detection section that calculates a peak current value of the fundamental order vibration damping current instruction; and a fundamental order current excess detection section that derives a fundamental order current upper limit value from the fundamental frequency to produce a fundamental order current upper limit excess signal that is output to the fundamental order adaptive algorithm block, which revises the fundamental order adaptive filter factors in a direction in which the vibration damping current instruction is limited within a range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki MORIYA, Takeshi TOMIZAKI, Takeo ITO, Yasushi MURAGISHI, Takayoshi FUJII
  • Publication number: 20120226414
    Abstract: A damping device includes a calculator calculating a pseudo vibration to cancel a source vibration transmitted from a vibration source to a position to be damped, using an adaptive control algorithm. The canceling vibration is generated according to the pseudo vibration. A vibration detector detects an error vibration remaining at the position. The adaptive control algorithm is adapted by learning to reduce the error vibration. A frequency recognizer recognizes a frequency of the source vibration from a signal related to the vibration source. The frequency of the vibration is used to determine a frequency of the pseudo vibration. A phase difference identifier identifies a phase difference between the error vibration and the canceling vibration according to the pseudo vibration, and a frequency corrector corrects, according to the phase difference, the frequency of the vibration to eliminate the phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi TOMIZAKI, Hideaki MORIYA, Takeo ITO, Yasushi MURAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20120222929
    Abstract: An automobile vibration damping device for an automobile in which a power plant in which an engine, a transmission and the like are combined is supported by a vehicle body, including a vibrating means that generates vibration separate from vibration of the engine. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the vibration amplitude of a seat portion by the reaction force of the vibrating means. Also, if the vibration mode of the vehicle body is adjusted so as to become a node in the vicinity of the seat portion, the vibration amplitude decreases in the vicinity of the seat portion, and improves riding comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi MURAGISHI, Takayoshi FUJII, Takashi FUKUNAGA, Hideaki MORIYA, Katsuyoshi NAKANO, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Takashi ONOUE, Yushi SATO
  • Publication number: 20120217108
    Abstract: A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: c/o SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi MURAGISHI, Hideaki MORIYA, Yushi SATO, Takashi FUKUNAGA, Katsuyoshi NAKANO, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Takayoshi FUJII, Takashi ONOUE, Masaaki NARIHISA