Patents by Inventor Yohei Kawaguchi

Yohei Kawaguchi 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: 20210390974
    Abstract: An abnormality degree calculation system includes: a feature amount vector extraction unit configured to generate and output a feature amount vector from an input signal originating from vibration of a target device; an encoding unit configured to receive as an input a set composed of the feature amount vector and a device type vector representing a type of the target device and output an encoding vector; a decoding unit configured receive as an input the encoding vector and the device type vector and output a decoding vector; a learning unit configured to learn parameters of the neural networks of the encoding unit and the decoding unit; and an abnormality degree calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of abnormality defined as a function of the feature amount vector from the feature amount vector extraction unit, the encoding vector from the encoding unit, and the decoding vector from the decoding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11199817
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic timepiece includes a cylindrical exterior case, a bezel and a windshield member. In the exterior case, a circuit board is housed. The bezel is formed of a metal material to be ring-shaped, includes an inward flange part that projects from an inner side surface toward a center of the ring-shaped bezel, is arranged on an outer upper side of the exterior case and is electrically connected with the circuit board. The windshield member is formed of a transparent dielectric substance, arranged in the bezel and supported by the inward flange part. The bezel is configured to resonate with a radio wave having a desired frequency by adjustment of at least one of (i) a relative permittivity of the dielectric substance and (ii) an area of an overlap region where the inward flange part and the windshield member overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Uematsu, Takashi Sano, Yohei Kawaguchi, Tatsumi Ichimura, Takumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11199816
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes an exterior case, one or more circuits housed in the exterior case, wherein the one or more circuits are configured to process a signal in a radio wave having a predetermined frequency, and a bezel disposed on an outer side of the exterior case, wherein the bezel comprises a metal portion configured to resonate with the radio wave, and wherein the metal portion of the bezel is electrically connected to the one or more circuits to transmit the signal in the radio wave received by the metal portion of the bezel to the one or more circuits. A method for assembling the electronic timepiece is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Sano, Daisuke Uematsu, Yohei Kawaguchi, Tatsumi Ichimura, Takumi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20210351596
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a secondary battery, a first power feeder, a second power feeder, and a processor. The first power feeder feeds power to the secondary battery. The second power feeder feeds power to the secondary battery at a current larger than a current fed by the first power feeder. The processor determines remaining power of the secondary battery based on different references that are a reference of when the first power feeder is feeding the power to the secondary battery and a reference of when the second power feeder is feeding the power to the secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki OCHIAI, Yoshinori ASAMI, Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Katsuhiko OBATA
  • Patent number: 11164594
    Abstract: Confirmation can be made what sound has been made under a restriction in which transmittable traffic is small. An abnormal sound detection system including an artificial sound creating function is configured, the abnormal sound detection system including a statistic calculation unit configured to calculate a statistic set expressing sizes of a direct current component, an alternating current component, and a noise component in an amplitude time series at each of frequencies of a sound inputted at a terminal, a statistic transmitting unit configured to transmit the statistic set from the terminal to a server, a statistic receiving unit configured to receive the statistic set in the server, and an artificial sound reproducing unit configured to reproduce a cyclostationary artificial sound based on the statistic set received in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yohei Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11144015
    Abstract: An antenna device including a case main body made of synthetic resin, an antenna made of metal and provided on an upper portion of the case main body so as to receive radio waves, an electronic component provided on a side portion of the case main body, and a protective connection member which includes a protection section which protects the electronic component and a connection section which is connected to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Sano, Daisuke Uematsu, Yohei Kawaguchi, Tatsumi Ichimura, Takumi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20210310951
    Abstract: Provided are a spectral calibration apparatus and a spectral calibration method capable of performing spectral calibration with high accuracy even when peaks appear simultaneously between fluorescent dyes. The spectral calibration apparatus for calculating a color conversion matrix used in color conversion processing, includes a spectral signal acquisition unit that acquires a spectral signal of fluorescence detected over time, a candidate calculation unit that calculates a candidate of the color conversion matrix for each value of a parameter, which depends on a frequency at which fluorescence peaks of fluorescent dyes appear at the same time, based on the spectral signal, and a selection unit that selects a color conversion matrix based on an evaluation value calculated for each candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KAWAGUCHI, George CHALKIDIS, Tomohiro YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20210302197
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus is a device for detecting an abnormality of an object, and detects the abnormality of the object by performing predetermined processing on second signals in a predetermined region among first signals derived from vibration acquired from the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Kaori SUEFUSA
  • Patent number: 11108258
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a secondary battery, a first power feeder, a second power feeder, and a processor. The first power feeder feeds power to the secondary battery. The second power feeder feeds power to the secondary battery at a current larger than a current fed by the first power feeder. The processor determines remaining power of the secondary battery based on different references that are a reference of when the first power feeder is feeding the power to the secondary battery and a reference of when the second power feeder is feeding the power to the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Ochiai, Yoshinori Asami, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata
  • Publication number: 20210249317
    Abstract: To provide a wavelength selection method or a plasma processing method to achieve accurate detection of residual thickness or etching amount, there is provided a plasma processing method, in which a processing object wafer is disposed within a processing chamber in the inside of a vacuum container, and plasma is generated by supplying a processing gas into the processing chamber and used to process a processing-object film layer beforehand formed on a surface of the wafer, and at least two wavelengths are selected from among wavelengths with large mutual information in emission of a plurality of wavelengths of plasma generated during processing of the processing-object film layer, and a temporal change in the emission of at least the two wavelengths is detected, and an endpoint of the processing of the film layer is determined based on a result of the detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Kawaguchi, Tatehito Usui, Shigeru Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210149344
    Abstract: An electronic watch includes a pointer; a stepping motor including a coil and configured to drive the pointer; a driving circuit configured to drive the stepping motor; an A/D converter configured to detect electromotive force generated in the coil due to an impact; and a CPU configured to control driving of the driving circuit. The CPU determines a direction in which the pointer is likely to be shifted, based on the electromotive force detected by the A/D converter, determines whether the pointer is shifted due to the impact, and upon determining that the pointer is shifted, corrects a position of the pointer in accordance with the direction in which the pointer is likely to be shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta SAITO, Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Fumiaki OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20210061546
    Abstract: A packing unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit with heavy objects that are provided on a bottom plate of a housing of the outdoor unit. On the packing unit, the outdoor unit is placed. The packing unit includes: a support base that has a cuboid framework structure made by combining a plurality of wood pieces, and supports the outdoor unit; a long wood piece that has a long plate shape, and that forms part of an upper surface portion of the support base and faces the bottom plate, the long wood piece having end portions, one of the end portions being fixed to the support base, the other being a free end that is movable in a vertical direction; and a support wood piece that is provided on an upper surface portion of the end portion on a free end side of the long wood piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki TSUCHIYA, Koji SACHIMOTO, Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Yusuke MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20200402527
    Abstract: Confirmation can be made what sound has been made under a restriction in which transmittable traffic is small. An abnormal sound detection system including an artificial sound creating function is configured, the abnormal sound detection system including a statistic calculation unit configured to calculate a statistic set expressing sizes of a direct current component, an alternating current component, and a noise component in an amplitude time series at each of frequencies of a sound inputted at a terminal, a statistic transmitting unit configured to transmit the statistic set from the terminal to a server, a statistic receiving unit configured to receive the statistic set in the server, and an artificial sound reproducing unit configured to reproduce a cyclostationary artificial sound based on the statistic set received in the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Yohei KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200389364
    Abstract: The hyperparameter management device of the present invention includes a compression network to dimensionally compress data to produce a low dimensional representation, an estimation network to estimate a density distribution of the low dimensional representation and a hyperparameter calculation unit to calculate hyperparameters for the compression network and the estimation network, wherein the hyperparameter calculation unit calculates, based on a set of subject data and a set of uniform data, a gap statistic using a gap statistic calculation technique, and calculates, using a curve fitting technique, an estimation network hyperparameter based on at least the gap statistic, calculates a ratio of variance of principal components of the set of subject data, and calculates, using a curve fitting technique, a compression network hyperparameter based on at least the ratio of variance, and sets the estimation network hyperparameter in the estimation network and sets the compression network hyperparameter in the c
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Harsh Pramodbhai PUROHIT, Takashi ENDO, Yohei KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10832698
    Abstract: An abnormal sound detection device includes a first learning unit that inputs a normal operating sound of the machine equipment, and registers a normal sound base spectrum from an amplitude spectrogram, a new sound/new vibration extraction unit that executes supervised nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) using the normal sound base spectrum as teacher data on an acoustic signal input during diagnosis, and outputs a nonnegative matrix not allowed to be approximated with a low rank in the normal sound base spectrum, a second learning unit that extracts a new sound/new vibration component from the normal operating sound of the machine equipment, learns a normal sound model from the new sound/new vibration component, and registers the normal sound model, and an abnormality detection unit that computes a probability that the new sound/new vibration component extracted from the acoustic signal of the machine equipment during diagnosis is generated from the normal sound model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Kawaguchi, Takashi Endo
  • Patent number: 10739731
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Hasegawa, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata, Mitsuaki Matsuo, Shimpei Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20200251127
    Abstract: An abnormal sound detection device includes a first learning unit that inputs a normal operating sound of the machine equipment, and registers a normal sound base spectrum from an amplitude spectrogram, a new sound/new vibration extraction unit that executes supervised nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) using the normal sound base spectrum as teacher data on an acoustic signal input during diagnosis, and outputs a nonnegative matrix not allowed to be approximated with a low rank in the normal sound base spectrum, a second learning unit that extracts a new sound/new vibration component from the normal operating sound of the machine equipment, learns a normal sound model from the new sound/new vibration component, and registers the normal sound model, and an abnormality detection unit that computes a probability that the new sound/new vibration component extracted from the acoustic signal of the machine equipment during diagnosis is generated from the normal sound model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yohei KAWAGUCHI, Takashi ENDO
  • Patent number: 10720174
    Abstract: There is provided a sound source separation method of carrying out sound source separation of an audio signal inputted from an input device by using a modeled sound source distribution, by an information processing apparatus provided with a processing device, a storage device, the input device, and an output device. In this method, as a condition followed by the model, sound sources are independent of one another, powers which the sound sources have are modeled for each of frequency bands obtained through band division, a relationship among the powers for the frequency bands different from each other is modeled by nonnegative matrix factorization, and components obtained through the division of the sound source follow a complex normal distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rintaro Ikeshita, Yohei Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200200404
    Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a heat exchanger comprised of an upper heat exchanger and a lower heat exchanger that are arranged in an up-down direction, an accumulator configured to store refrigerant, a casing, an inside of which is partitioned by a partition plate into an air-sending chamber accommodating the heat exchanger and a machine chamber accommodating the accumulator, and a fixing component configured to be fixed to the heat exchanger and the accumulator so that the accumulator is fixed to the heat exchanger, wherein the fixing component is fixed to both of the upper heat exchanger and the lower heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Yohei KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10629222
    Abstract: A sound signal processing method and device are provided for separating sounds of the respective sound sources even when sounds are recorded asynchronously by a plurality of devices. Specifically, the present invention comprises the steps of instructing each of the plurality of devices to output a reference signal of a different frequency, receiving each of the reference signals output from the speaker of the plurality of devices according to the instruction, receiving sound signals in which each of the reference signals output from the speaker of the plurality of devices is input into the microphone of the plurality of devices, calculating a time shift amount of each of the devices based on each of the received reference signals output from the speaker and the received sound signals, and separating the plurality of signal signals input into the microphone of the plurality of devices based on the calculated time shift amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Takashima, Yohei Kawaguchi, Takashi Sumiyoshi, Masahito Togami