Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Nota

Yoshiki Nota 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: 11465879
    Abstract: During a maintenance inspection, an optical rope diameter measuring device is provided at a predetermined position along a path of a wire rope, rope diameter is measured at multiple measuring points while the elevator is driven in test mode, and diameter reduction at each measuring point is determined and stored as a first diameter reduction (S2_S6). During a subsequent maintenance inspection, rope diameter is similarly measured at each measuring point to determine diameter reduction constituting a second diameter reduction (S7_S11). Based on these two diameter reductions, the time at which diameter reduction will reach a predetermined threshold value is predicted for each measuring point, and the earliest time is displayed as a rope replacement time (S12_S14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: NIPPON OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi, Ryuji Onoda, Yusuke Watabe, Yoshiki Nota, Kazuaki Chida
  • Patent number: 10994968
    Abstract: An elevator rope elongation measuring device provided with: a camera for photographing one or a plurality of elevator ropes R; and an image processing unit for image processing a photographed image output from the camera, wherein: the image processing unit detects an external form portion of the elevator rope R as a regular hill and valley shape T, converts a cyclic length of the hill and valley shape into actual dimensions and makes this a measured value, and finds a ratio of the measured value with respect to a standard value prescribed for the elevator rope as an elongation, therefore attaining the effect of making it unnecessary to have a preliminary installation of a sensor or marker to the rope, or preliminary creation of a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hideki Miyazawa, Yoshiki Nota, Yusuke Watabe
  • Patent number: 10684120
    Abstract: A wired-rope measuring device, provided with two cameras 1, 2 that shoot one or no less than two wired ropes 8 from different directions and an analyzing device 5 that analyzes image data that is an image shot by the two cameras 1, 2, wherein the analyzing device 5 applies the principle of triangulation by a stereo method to the image data to seek a center coordinate P0 of the wired rope 8 relative to the cameras 1, 2 and volumetric anamorphosis is corrected when calculating a diameter D of the wired rope 8 based on the center coordinate P0 of the wired rope 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nota, Yusuke Watabe, Mitsuru Kato, Ryuji Onoda, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20200071131
    Abstract: An elevator rope elongation measuring device provided with: a camera for photographing one or a plurality of elevator ropes R; and an image processing unit for image processing a photographed image output from the camera, wherein: the image processing unit detects an external form portion of the elevator rope R as a regular hill and valley shape T, converts a cyclic length of the hill and valley shape into actual dimensions and makes this a measured value, and finds a ratio of the measured value with respect to a standard value prescribed for the elevator rope as an elongation, therefore attaining the effect of making it unnecessary to have a preliminary installation of a sensor or marker to the rope, or preliminary creation of a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hideki Miyazawa, Yoshiki Nota, Yusuke Watabe
  • Publication number: 20200071130
    Abstract: An elevator-rope inspection device comprising a camera for capturing images of the elevator rope R, and an image-processing unit for processing a captured image outputted by the camera, wherein the image-processing unit detects a location of wear by implementing binarization on the captured images, and a labeling process that assigns a label to the location of wear, measures a distance between labels 1, 2, and 3 assigned by the labeling process, and when that distance is less than a fixed value, it judges that the area between labels is a wire break, so texture information of the elevator rope is unnecessary in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hideki Miyazawa, Yoshiki Nota, Yusuke Watabe
  • Publication number: 20200003549
    Abstract: A wired-rope measuring device, provided with two cameras 1, 2 that shoot one or no less than two wired ropes 8 from different directions and an analyzing device 5 that analyzes image data that is an image shot by the two cameras 1, 2, wherein the analyzing device 5 applies the principle of triangulation by a stereo method to the image data to seek a center coordinate P0 of the wired rope 8 relative to the cameras 1, 2 and volumetric anamorphosis is corrected when calculating a diameter D of the wired rope 8 based on the center coordinate P0 of the wired rope 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nota, Yusuke Watabe, Mitsuru Kato, Ryuji Onoda, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20190359450
    Abstract: During a maintenance inspection, an optical rope diameter measuring device is provided at a predetermined position along a path of a wire rope, rope diameter is measured at multiple measuring points while the elevator is driven in test mode, and diameter reduction at each measuring point is determined and stored as a first diameter reduction (S2_S6). During a subsequent maintenance inspection, rope diameter is similarly measured at each measuring point to determine diameter reduction constituting a second diameter reduction (S7_S11). Based on these two diameter reductions, the time at which diameter reduction will reach a predetermined threshold value is predicted for each measuring point, and the earliest time is displayed as a rope replacement time (S12_S14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi, Ryuji Onoda, Yusuke Watabe, Yoshiki Nota, Kazuaki Chida