Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Ihara

Yoshitaka Ihara 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: 20240148317
    Abstract: Provided is a pelvic inclination estimation device including a communication unit that acquires feature amount data including a feature amount to be used for estimation of a pelvic inclination, the feature amount being extracted from a gait waveform of a spatial acceleration and a spatial angular velocity included in sensor data related to movement of a foot of a subject, a storage unit that stores an estimation model that outputs an estimation value related to the pelvic inclination according to an input of the feature amount included in the feature amount data, an estimation unit that inputs a feature amount included in the acquired feature amount data to the estimation model and estimate a pelvic inclination of the subject according to the estimation value output from the estimation model, and an output unit that outputs information associated to the pelvic inclination of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Zhenwei WANG, Chenhui HUANG, Kenichiro FUKUSHI, Kazuki IHARA, Fumiyuki NIHEY, Hiroshi KAJITANI, Yoshitaka NOZAKI, Kentaro NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240138710
    Abstract: Provided is a waist swinging estimation device including a communication unit that acquires feature amount data including a feature amount extracted from a gait waveform of a spatial acceleration and a spatial angular velocity included in sensor data regarding a movement of a foot of a subject and used for estimation of waist swinging that is an index regarding a movement of a waist, a storage unit that stores an estimation model that outputs an estimated value regarding the waist swinging according to an input of a feature amount included in the feature amount data, an estimation unit that inputs a feature amount included in the acquired feature amount data to the estimation model, and estimate waist swinging of the subject according to an estimated value regarding the waist swinging output from the estimation model, and an output unit that outputs information according to waist swinging of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Zhenwei Wang, Chenhui Huang, Kazuki Ihara, Kenichiro Fukushi, Fumiyuki Nihey, Hiroshi Kajitani, Yoshitaka Nozaki, Kentaro Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20240138757
    Abstract: Provided is a pelvic inclination estimation device including a communication unit that acquires feature amount data including a feature amount to be used for estimation of a pelvic inclination, the feature amount being extracted from a gait waveform of a spatial acceleration and a spatial angular velocity included in sensor data related to movement of a foot of a subject, a storage unit that stores an estimation model that outputs an estimation value related to the pelvic inclination according to an input of the feature amount included in the feature amount data, an estimation unit that inputs a feature amount included in the acquired feature amount data to the estimation model and estimate a pelvic inclination of the subject according to the estimation value output from the estimation model, and an output unit that outputs information associated to the pelvic inclination of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Zhenwei WANG, Chenhui HUANG, Kenichiro FUKUSHI, Kazuki IHARA, Fumiyuki NIHEY, Hiroshi KAJITANI, Yoshitaka NOZAKI, Kentaro NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240122531
    Abstract: An index value estimation device including a data acquisition unit that acquires feature amount data including a feature amount extracted from sensor data related to a motion of a foot of a user and used for estimating an index value indicating a knee state of the user, a storage unit that stores an estimation model that outputs an index value according to an input of the feature amount data, an estimation unit that estimates an output obtained by inputting the acquired feature amount data to the estimation model as an index value indicating the knee state of the user, and an output unit that outputs information about the estimated index value indicating the knee state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki IHARA, Kenichiro FUKUSHI, Zhenwei WANG, Chenhui HUANG, Hiroshi KAJITANI, Fumiyuki NIHEY, Yoshitaka NOZAKI, Kentaro NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 5201422
    Abstract: A classifier for powdery material has a cylindrical casing formed at an upper portion thereof with an inlet port for introducing the material to be classified into the casing in a tangential direction of an inner wall thereof. The casing has a conical portion formed in its bottom end with an opening connected to a discharge pipe for discharging coarse particles. Further, an outlet pipe protrudes into the casing through its top. The inlet port is located higher than the bottom end of the outlet port. An externally-driven vane wheel is provided under the outlet pipe in a concentric relationship with respect to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ihara, Akira Ganse, Hidemasa Ishikawa, Takashi Katsurazako
  • Patent number: 5158240
    Abstract: A pulverizer has a shell having an inlet port for introducing air and the material to be pulverized into the shell and a discharge port through which the pulverized product is discharged from the shell. The shell is filled with a pulverizing medium such as steel balls. A vertical screw shaft having a screw blade thereon is rotatably mounted in the shell. The screw shaft is hollow and provided at the bottom end thereof with an outlet port. The outlet port is located behind the screw blade with respect to the direction of rotation of the screw shaft. A fluid supply box is provided at the bottom of the screw shaft and extends from the screw shaft to the outer edge of the screw blade. The outlet port is formed in the fluid supply box. A scrape plate protrudes downwards from the bottom end of the screw shaft. Three or more screw blades may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ihara, Hidemasa Ishikawa, Iwao Ikebuchi, Hisashi Takei, Shigetoshi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 5114083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for pulverizing a material to produce a fine powdery material such as silica powder as a material for a filler for sealing semiconductors. It has a shell and a screw shaft mounted in the shell. A disk having an inverted conical bottom surface is coaxially secured to the bottom of the screw shaft. The disk serves to protect the blade of the screw shaft from wear. Also owing to the inverted conical bottom surface, a centripetal force acts on the screw shaft while in rotation, thus preventing it from running out of true. By providing a plurality of screw shafts in the shell, the fluid in the shell flows in a complicated manner, thus increasing the pulverizing efficiency. A partitioning plate formed with a hole in the upper or lower part thereof may be provided between the adjacent screw shafts to minimize the possibility of shortcircuiting of the material from the inlet of the shell to its outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Kubota, Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikebuchi, Yoshitaka Ihara, Hisashi Takei, Syozo Yamada, Mamoru Nakano, Akira Ganse
  • Patent number: 5042729
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for pulverizing quick lime into a slurry form. It has a vertical shell and a rotary shaft mounted in the shell. An agitating layer and a pulverizing layer are formed in the shell at its upper and lower portions, respectively. The material fed from top of the shell is agitated and melted into smaller particles in the agitating layer and then pulverized into fine particles in the pulverizing layer. The fine particles are discharged from a top or middle of the shell. A discharge pipe is provided so as to extend upwardly from the discharge port at the middle of the shell. An agitator may be provided in the discharge pipe. The material to be pulverized is prevented from going from the inlet directly to the outlet without passing through the pulverizing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Kubota, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ihara, Akira Ganse, Haruhiko Oyanagi, Iwao Ikebuchi
  • Patent number: 4905915
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for pulverizing a material such as sand to a desired particle size. The apparatus has a pulverizing shell in which the material to be pulverized is fed and pulverized. The pulverized fluid-carried material overflows the shell so as to be fed into a settling classifier, where the coarser material settles and is discharged through its bottom opening back into the shell for repulverization. The finer material overflows the classifier and is fed to an intermediate bin, which has its bottom connected to the shell through a valve. When the bin is filled up with the material, the valve is opened so that the material in the bin is returned to the shell. The material is thus circulated through the shell, classifier and intermediate bin. The shell is adapted to be alternately connected to the intermediate bin and a product collector bin by a changeover valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Kubota, Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Ikebuchi, Yoshitaka Ihara, Akira Ganse, Tomio Kaneyasu