Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Sugimoto
Yoshihiko Sugimoto 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).
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Patent number: 10779729Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that includes a light projecting optical system for projecting light to an ACA region of a subject's eye, and a light receiving optical system including a light receiving element for receiving reflected light from the ACA region; an alignment driver configured to change a positional relationship between the subject's eye and the imaging optical system; an imaging processor configured to generate an ACA image based on a signal output from the light receiving element; and a controller configured to detect a feature point in an ACA of the subject's eye from the ACA image, and that adjust the positional relationship in accordance with a position of the feature point in the ACA image.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Keita Suzuki, Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10661826Abstract: The microcomputer included in the steering control unit calculates a basic assist component that is a component of the assist force, on the basis of the steering torque. The microcomputer calculates a damping compensation component that suppresses a sudden change in a rotation angle, on the basis of a rotational angular velocity that is a time rate of change of the rotation angle. The microcomputer calculates, independently of the damping compensation component, a return compensation component that suppresses influence of the damping compensation component, on the basis of the rotational angular velocity. The microcomputer compensates the basic assist component by using both the damping compensation component and the return compensation component, in a situation where the steering wheel comes back to the neutral position without a steering operation that a driver performs to return the steering wheel.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeto Matsuo, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Akihiko Nishimura
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Publication number: 20190077448Abstract: The microcomputer included in the steering control unit calculates a basic assist component that is a component of the assist force, on the basis of the steering torque. The microcomputer calculates a damping compensation component that suppresses a sudden change in a rotation angle, on the basis of a rotational angular velocity that is a time rate of change of the rotation angle. The microcomputer calculates, independently of the damping compensation component, a return compensation component that suppresses influence of the damping compensation component, on the basis of the rotational angular velocity. The microcomputer compensates the basic assist component by using both the damping compensation component and the return compensation component, in a situation where the steering wheel comes back to the neutral position without a steering operation that a driver performs to return the steering wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeto MATSUO, Yoshihiko SUGIMOTO, Akihiko NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 10171800Abstract: An I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that can add a sense of distance from the position of visually recognizing eyes to a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image, through an object that is a real image and provide visual recognition as if the stereoscopic image were associated with the object are provided. An I/O device of the present invention includes a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image, a depth level sensor that measures a distance to an object, and an event generating unit that generates an event according to a mode of the object at least either in a stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device or in a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: MIRAMA SERVICE INC.Inventor: Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20180153403Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that includes a light projecting optical system for projecting light to an ACA region of a subject's eye, and a light receiving optical system including a light receiving element for receiving reflected light from the ACA region; an alignment driver configured to change a positional relationship between the subject's eye and the imaging optical system; an imaging processor configured to generate an ACA image based on a signal output from the light receiving element; and a controller configured to detect a feature point in an ACA of the subject's eye from the ACA image, and that adjust the positional relationship in accordance with a position of the feature point in the ACA image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Keita Suzuki, Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9979946Abstract: Provided are an I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that enable visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if a target object that is a real image were in contact with a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image. The I/O device according to the present invention includes: a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image; and a depth level sensor that measures a distance to a target object. A stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device and a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor overlap with each other to thereby have a common region therebetween. As a result, the visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if the target object that is a real image were in contact with the stereoscopic image that is a virtual image is possible.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: MIRAMA SERVICE INCInventors: Johannes Lundberg, Shinya Yamamoto, Yusuke Kajii Kajii, Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9778073Abstract: A position sensor includes a first transmission coil, a second transmission coil having a different shape from the first transmission coil, a receiver coil for receiving electromagnetic waves transmitted from the first and second transmission coils, a transmission waveform generator that inputs first and second input waves to the first and second transmission coils having frequencies identical to each other and having phases different from each other, and a position detector that detects a position of a target provided movably with respect to the first transmission coil, the second transmission coil, and the receiver coil based on a first output signal obtained from the receiver coil in response to the first and second input waves input from the transmission waveform generator to the first and second transmission coils, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Haraguchi, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masahisa Niwa
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Publication number: 20160334244Abstract: A position sensor includes a first transmission coil, a second transmission coil having a different shape from the first transmission coil, a receiver coil for receiving electromagnetic waves transmitted from the first and second transmission coils, a transmission waveform generator that inputs first and second input waves to the first and second transmission coils having frequencies identical to each other and having phases different from each other, and a position detector that detects a position of a target provided movably with respect to the first transmission coil, the second transmission coil, and the receiver coil based on a first output signal obtained from the receiver coil in response to the first and second input waves input from the transmission waveform generator to the first and second transmission coils, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Kazuma HARAGUCHI, Yoshihiko SUGIMOTO, Masahisa NIWA
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Publication number: 20160021353Abstract: Provided are an I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that enable visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if a target object that is a real image were in contact with a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image. The I/O device according to the present invention includes: a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image; and a depth level sensor that measures a distance to a target object. A stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device and a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor overlap with each other to thereby have a common region therebetween. As a result, the visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if the target object that is a real image were in contact with the stereoscopic image that is a virtual image is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTDInventors: Johannes Lundberg, Shinya Yamamoto, Yusuke Kajii Kajii, Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20160000021Abstract: There are provided a cultivation control system, a cultivation control program, and a cultivation control method that can independently set growth conditions in a plurality of divided cultivation spaces and that can perform control by changing growth environments in the individual cultivation spaces. In a cultivation apparatus 300, each of the internal environments of a plurality of shielded spaces is shielded from the internal environments of the shielded spaces adjacent thereto and from an external environment of the cultivation apparatus 300. A portable communication communication terminal 200 performs remote control of environment control apparatuses 350a to 350f such that at least one of the internal environments of the plurality of shielded spaces is independently controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventor: Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20160000020Abstract: There are provided a cultivation system, a cultivation program, and a cultivation method that utilize, as big data, information about control performed on cultivation apparatuses by users and give back, by automatic analysis, the information to the users in a mode where the users can use the information in the cultivation system, by which use of the cultivation system is promoted, creating a virtuous cycle of creation of more useful plants. A cultivation system 100 includes a cultivation apparatus 300 and a communication terminal 200 that can communicate with a cloud 500. The cultivation apparatus 300 grows a plant, transmits growth information to the cloud 500, and receives raising control information from the cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventor: Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20150381970Abstract: An I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that can add a sense of distance from the position of visually recognizing eyes to a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image, through an object that is a real image and provide visual recognition as if the stereoscopic image were associated with the object are provided. An I/O device of the present invention includes a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image, a depth level sensor that measures a distance to an object, and an event generating unit that generates an event according to a mode of the object at least either in a stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device or in a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventor: Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 7959856Abstract: Aluminum alloys and castings are provided that have excellent practical fatigue resistances. The alloy includes, based upon 100 mass %, 4-12 mass % of Si, less than 0.2 mass % of Cu, 0.1-0.5 mass % of Mg, 0.2-3.0 mass % of Ni, 0.1-0.7 mass % of Fe, 0.15-0.3 mass % of Ti, and the balance of aluminum (Al) and impurities. The alloy has a metallographic structure, which includes a matrix phase primarily of ?-Al and a skeleton phase crystallizing around the matrix phase in a network shape. The matrix phase is strengthened by precipitates containing Mg. Because of the strengthened matrix phase, and the skeleton phase that surrounds it, the castings have high strength, high fatigue strength, and high thermo-mechanical fatigue resistance.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Hajime Ikuno, Hiroshi Hohjo, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Isamu Ueda, Hiroaki Iwahori
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Patent number: 7682469Abstract: A piston made of aluminum cast alloy having a main body section in an approximately cylindrical shape, atop face section provided and arranged so as to occlude one end of the main body section, and a pin boss section in which a pin hole is provided so as to penetrate through the main body section in a radial direction. The piston comprises an aluminum cast alloy containing Mg (Magnesium): equal to or less than 0.2 mass %, Ti (Titanium) 0.05-0.3 mass %, Si (Silicon): 10-21 mass %, Cu (Copper): 2-3.5 mass %, Fe (Iron): 0.1-0.7 mass %, Ni (Nickel): 1-3 mass %, P (Phosphorus): 0.001-0.02 mass %, Al (Aluminum): the remaining portions, and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Hajime Ikuno, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Hiroshi Hohjo
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Publication number: 20050100473Abstract: Aluminum alloys and castings are provided that have excellent practical fatigue resistances. The alloy includes, based upon 100 mass %, 4-12 mass % of Si, less than 0.2 mass % of Cu, 0.1-0.5 mass % of Mg, 0.2-3.0 mass % of Ni, 0.1-0.7 mass % of Fe, 0.15-0.3 mass % of Ti, and the balance of aluminum (Al) and impurities. The alloy has a metallographic structure, which includes a matrix phase primarily of ?-Al and a skeleton phase crystallizing around the matrix phase in a network shape. The matrix phase is strengthened by precipitates containing Mg. Because of the strengthened matrix phase, and the skeleton phase that surrounds it, the castings have high strength, high fatigue strength, and high thermo-mechanical fatigue resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkushoInventors: Hajime Ikuno, Hiroshi Hohjo, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Isamu Ueda, Hiroaki Iwahori
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Publication number: 20050000604Abstract: An aluminum alloy according to the present invention includes from 4.0 to 6.0% Mg, from 0.3 to 0.6% Mn, from 0.5 to 0.9% Fe, and the balance of Al and inevitable impurities when the entirety is taken as 100% by mass. By appropriately selecting the composition range of Mg, Mn and Fe, it has been possible to micro-finely crystallize Al (Mn, Fe) compounds while inhibiting the growth of primary-crystal Al. As a result, the resulting aluminum alloy is good in terms of the castability, and shows high strength as well as high ductility.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2002Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Hiroshi Kawahara, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Yoshio Sugiyama, Toshio Horie, Hiroaki Iwahori, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Minoru Yamashita
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Publication number: 20040057865Abstract: A piston made of aluminum cast alloy having a main body section in an approximately cylindrical shape, atop face section provided and arranged so as to occlude one end of the main body section, and a pin boss section in which a pin hole is provided so as to penetrate through the main body section in a radial direction. The piston comprises an aluminum cast alloy containing Mg (Magnesium): equal to or less than 0.2 mass %, Ti (Titanium) 0.05-0.3 mass %, Si (Silicon): 10-21 mass %, Cu (Copper): 2-3.5 mass %, Fe (Iron): 0.1-0.7 mass %, Ni (Nickel): 1-3 mass %, P (Phosphorus): 0.001-0.02 mass %, Al (Aluminum): the remaining portions, and impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota ChuoInventors: Hajime Ikuno, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Hiroshi Hohjo
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Patent number: 5351126Abstract: An optical measurement system for determination of a profile or thickness of an object includes first and second optical heads directing first and second light beams, respectively on first and second points on the surface of the object. Photo-sensors are included respectively in the first and second optical heads for receiving reflected lights from said first and second points and providing first and second outputs which varies in proportion to perpendicular distances from a reference plane to said first and second points on the object's surface. The first and second outputs are transmitted selectively to a single processing circuit through a switch. The processing circuit operates to process the first and second outputs in sequence to measure by triangulation the perpendicular distance of the first and second points from the reference plane and to analyze a surface or thickness of the object based upon thus measured perpendicular distances.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1992Date of Patent: September 27, 1994Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Takada, Hiroshi Matsuda, Toshiki Yamane, Yoshihiko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 5103725Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1991Date of Patent: April 14, 1992Assignee: Tokyo Electric Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita
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Patent number: 5090318Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1991Date of Patent: February 25, 1992Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita