Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Sagawa

Yoshihiro Sagawa 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: 20240123100
    Abstract: A sterilization system of an embodiment includes a light source unit, a horizontal angle adjustment unit and/or a vertical angle adjustment unit, and a controller. The light source unit emits ultraviolet rays in a radiating form. The horizontal angle adjustment unit adjusts a horizontal angle of the light source unit by causing rotation of the light source unit in a horizontal direction. The vertical angle adjustment unit adjusts a vertical angle of the light source unit by causing rotation of the light source unit in a vertical direction. The controller receives a marker signal transmitted from a marker via a marker sensor, controls rotation of the horizontal angle adjustment unit and/or the vertical angle adjustment unit to direct an optical axis of the light source unit to the marker, and stores a horizontal angle and/or a vertical angle of the light source unit in response to a position setting request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Shogo IMAMURA, Yoshihiro SAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240042075
    Abstract: A sterilization system of an embodiment includes a light source unit, a horizontal angle adjustment unit and/or a vertical angle adjustment unit, and a controller. The light source unit emits ultraviolet rays in a radiating form. The horizontal angle adjustment unit adjusts a horizontal angle of the light source unit by causing rotation of the light source unit in a horizontal direction. The vertical angle adjustment unit adjusts a vertical angle of the light source unit by causing rotation of the light source unit in a vertical direction. The controller reads setting information including the horizontal angle and/or the vertical angle, controls the rotation caused by the horizontal angle adjustment unit and/or the vertical angle adjustment unit, and controls irradiation of the ultraviolet rays by the light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shogo IMAMURA, Yoshihiro SAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11206723
    Abstract: To provide a remote control device for transmitting a light signal having a pulse pattern capable of reducing the possibility of false detection, a communication device including the remote control device and a sensor, a variable device further including an appliance whose state varies by tracking the remote control device, and a lighting device further including a moving light for illuminating the remote control device by tracking the remote control device. The remote control device transits a light signal having a pulse pattern to be detected by a sensor, in which the pulse pattern includes a first ON period, a second ON period, and an OFF period between the first ON period and the second ON period, the first ON period and the second ON period being repeated alternately, the first ON period and the second ON period are more than twice as long as a sampling time T of the sensor, the first ON period and the second ON period are different from each other, and the OFF period is longer than the sampling time T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sagawa, Hideaki Kawauchi
  • Patent number: 11116061
    Abstract: A light source driving device includes: a storage unit that stores therein three or more combinations of a level indicating brightness of light emitted from a light source, and a control value used when light with brightness corresponding to the level is emitted, the control value having a nonlinear relation with the level; and a control unit that controls the light source so that the brightness of the emitted light is gradually changed to brightness corresponding to a level of a target indicated by a light control instruction signal, by calculating a level indicating the brightness of the emitted light between a level when a light control instruction signal is supplied and the level of the indicated target, by using two or more combinations for calculating the control value corresponding to the calculated level, among the stored combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20210076473
    Abstract: To provide a remote control device for transmitting a light signal having a pulse pattern capable of reducing the possibility of false detection, a communication device including the remote control device and a sensor, a variable device further including an appliance whose state varies by tracking the remote control device, and a lighting device further including a moving light for illuminating the remote control device by tracking the remote control device. The remote control device transits a light signal having a pulse pattern to be detected by a sensor, in which the pulse pattern includes a first ON period, a second ON period, and an OFF period between the first ON period and the second ON period, the first ON period and the second ON period being repeated alternately, the first ON period and the second ON period are more than twice as long as a sampling time T of the sensor, the first ON period and the second ON period are different from each other, and the OFF period is longer than the sampling time T.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SAGAWA, Hideaki KAWAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190274200
    Abstract: A light source driving device includes: a storage unit that stores therein three or more combinations of a level indicating brightness of light emitted from a light source, and a control value used when light with brightness corresponding to the level is emitted, the control value having a nonlinear relation with the level; and a control unit that controls the light source so that the brightness of the emitted light is gradually changed to brightness corresponding to a level of a target indicated by a light control instruction signal, by calculating a level indicating the brightness of the emitted light between a level when a light control instruction signal is supplied and the level of the indicated target, by using two or more combinations for calculating the control value corresponding to the calculated level, among the stored combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshihiro SAGAWA
  • Patent number: 7714223
    Abstract: The reproduction device comprises a decoding section, a threshold calculating section, and a musical data output section. The threshold calculating section calculates an average amplitude level in a predetermined section of an end portion of first musical data generated by the decoding section, and calculates a threshold for detecting a silent portion of the end portion of the first musical data on the basis of the calculated average amplitude level. The musical data output section removes a silent portion between the first musical data and the second musical data and reproduces them so that a position nearest to the end position of the first musical data at an amplitude level which is the threshold or more is a reproduction ending position and so that a position near the leading position of the second musical data at an amplitude level which is the threshold or more is a reproduction starting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventors: Taiyo Matsuhashi, Haruyoshi Kumasaka, Yoshihiro Sagawa, Hiromasa Ishiyama, Takeshi Kogure
  • Publication number: 20080289479
    Abstract: The reproduction device comprises a decoding section, a threshold calculating section, and a musical data output section. The threshold calculating section calculates an average amplitude level in a predetermined section of an end portion of first musical data generated by the decoding section, and calculates a threshold for detecting a silent portion of the end portion of the first musical data on the basis of the calculated average amplitude level. The musical data output section removes a silent portion between the first musical data and the second musical data and reproduces them so that a position nearest to the end position of the first musical data at an amplitude level which is the threshold or more is a reproduction ending position and so that a position near the leading position of the second musical data at an amplitude level which is the threshold or more is a reproduction starting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventors: Taiyo Matsuhashi, Haruyoshi Kumasaka, Yoshihiro Sagawa, Hiromasa Ishiyama, Takeshi Kogure
  • Patent number: D791819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sagawa, Koshi Fujiura
  • Patent number: D894211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Oguchi, Yoshihiro Sagawa, Jun Ando, Shogo Imamura