Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Koda

Yoshitaka Koda 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: 11926064
    Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Narasaki, Noboru Kawaguchi, Masaki Hirano, Muneharu Kuwata, Masashige Suwa, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono, Akihiro Fujie, Yoshitaka Koda, Toru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240033930
    Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shota NARASAKI, Noboru KAWAGUCHI, Masaki HIRANO, Muneharu KUWATA, Masashige SUWA, Toshiyuki ANDO, Hitomi ONO, Akihiro FUJIE, Yoshitaka KODA, Toru SATO
  • Patent number: 10468846
    Abstract: A die for a terminalized electric wire is provided with a first electrode, a hole forming jig, an electric wire pressing jig which surrounds a periphery of the first electrode, a second electrode and conductor accommodation parts. The conductor accommodation parts are recessed in molded inner wall surfaces at both sides of the electric wire pressing jig which holds a superposed configuration part in which the end side is superposed on the root side of the annular conductor in the vertical direction. A part of a molten conductor of the superposed configuration part flows into the conductor accommodation parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Koda, Shigeo Mori
  • Patent number: 9793626
    Abstract: A mold includes a first electrode on which a looped conductor of an electric wire is placed, the looped conductor being an exposed conductor of the electric wire from which a coating is removed and having an overlap portion at which different parts of the exposed conductor overlap each other, a hole forming jig provided upright on the first electrode to extend through an inner hole of the looped conductor, a wire holding jig arranged to surround the first electrode, and a second electrode having a conductor pressing protrusion configured to be fitted in a conductor molding groove defined by the first electrode and the wire holding jig to press and heat the looped conductor. The wire holding jig has a plurality of separable holding jigs configured to hold the looped conductor between the separable holding jigs from a direction perpendicular to an axis of the hole forming jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Koda
  • Patent number: 9761966
    Abstract: A mold includes a first electrode on which a looped conductor of an electric wire is placed, the looped conductor being an exposed conductor of the electric wire from which a coating is removed and having an overlap portion at which different parts of the exposed conductor overlap each other, a hole forming jig provided upright on the first electrode to extend through an inner hole of the looped conductor, a wire holding jig arranged to surround the first electrode, and a second electrode having a conductor pressing protrusion configured to be fitted in a conductor molding groove defined by the first electrode and the wire holding jig to press and heat the looped conductor. The wire holding jig has a plurality of separable holding jigs configured to hold the looped conductor between the separable holding jigs from a direction perpendicular to an axis of the hole forming jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Koda
  • Patent number: 9590324
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electrical wire includes: a covered electrical wire in which an outer periphery of a core wire including a plurality of element wires is covered by a cover portion; and a terminal portion that is provided to an end portion of the covered electrical wire and that is configured as a terminal by exposing the core wire from the cover portion and providing a connection hole to the core wire. At the terminal portion, the element wires of the core wire are divided into two divided sections, the tip of each of the divided sections is folded back toward a base portion in order to form the connection hole, a conductive member is arranged between the divided sections, and a resistance welder is used to configure the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Koda, Shunya Tsuge
  • Publication number: 20160276792
    Abstract: A die for a terminalized electric wire is provided with a first electrode, a hole forming jig, an electric wire pressing jig which surrounds a periphery of the first electrode, a second electrode and conductor accommodation parts. The conductor accommodation parts are recessed in molded inner wall surfaces at both sides of the electric wire pressing jig which holds a superposed configuration part in which the end side is superposed on the root side of the annular conductor in the vertical direction. A part of a molten conductor of the superposed configuration part flows into the conductor accommodation parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Koda, Shigeo Mori
  • Publication number: 20160268755
    Abstract: A mold includes a first electrode on which a looped conductor of an electric wire is placed, the looped conductor being an exposed conductor of the electric wire from which a coating is removed and having an overlap portion at which different parts of the exposed conductor overlap each other, a hole forming jig provided upright on the first electrode to extend through an inner hole of the looped conductor, a wire holding jig arranged to surround the first electrode, and a second electrode having a conductor pressing protrusion configured to be fitted in a conductor molding groove defined by the first electrode and the wire holding jig to press and heat the looped conductor. The wire holding jig has a plurality of separable holding jigs configured to hold the looped conductor between the separable holding jigs from a direction perpendicular to an axis of the hole forming jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka KODA
  • Patent number: 9397440
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal which is fixed to a conductor exposed from an end portion of a covered wire; a sealing portion which is made of an insulating and elastic material, and which integrally covers an adjacent portion of the terminal and a sheath of the covered wire; and a housing which is made of an insulating resin having rigidity higher than the elastic material, and which integrally covers whole of the sealing portion provided around the end portion of the covered wire. A terminal-side end face of the sealing portion is exposed from the housing at a bottom of an annular recess formed in a terminal-side end face of the housing so as to surround the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeo Mori, Masayuki Kataoka, Fuminori Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Koda
  • Publication number: 20160134027
    Abstract: A terminal bonding structure for wire (1) in which a core wire (11) of a wire (1) is resistance-welded to a connection terminal (2), wherein, core wire is formed with a thin portion (13) and a thick portion (14) respectively on a fusion bonding part (11a) and the fusion bonding part thereof is resistance-welded to the connection terminal, wherein the thin portions are formed at least at two points frontward and backward in an extension direction of the core wire, and wherein the thick portion is formed sandwiched between the thin portions and thicker than the thin portions
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka KODA
  • Publication number: 20160072205
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electrical wire includes: a covered electrical wire in which an outer periphery of a core wire including a plurality of element wires is covered by a cover portion; and a terminal portion that is provided to an end portion of the covered electrical wire and that is configured as a terminal by exposing the core wire from the cover portion and providing a connection hole to the core wire. At the terminal portion, the element wires of the core wire are divided into two divided sections, the tip of each of the divided sections is folded back toward a base portion in order to form the connection hole, a conductive member is arranged between the divided sections, and a resistance welder is used to configure the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KODA, Shunya TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20150214655
    Abstract: A connector (11) includes: terminals (17) which are fixed to conductors (15) of covered wires (13), respectively; sealing portions (21) which respectively integrally cover adjacent portions of the respective terminals (17) arranged side by side and sheaths (19) of corresponding covered wires (13), and which are made of an insulating and elastic material which links the sealing portions (21) by link portions (27); and a housing (23) which is made of an insulating resin having rigidity higher than the elastic material, and which integrally covers whole of the sealing portions (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeo Mori, Masayuki Kataoka, Fuminori Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Koda
  • Publication number: 20150118905
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal which is fixed to a conductor exposed from an end portion of a covered wire; a sealing portion which is made of an insulating and elastic material, and which integrally covers an adjacent portion of the terminal and a sheath of the covered wire; and a housing which is made of an insulating resin having rigidity higher than the elastic material, and which integrally covers whole of the sealing portion provided around the end portion of the covered wire. A terminal-side end face of the sealing portion is exposed from the housing at a bottom of an annular recess formed in a terminal-side end face of the housing so as to surround the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeo MORI, Masayuki KATAOKA, Fuminori SUGIYAMA, Yoshitaka KODA
  • Publication number: 20150099396
    Abstract: A connector (11) includes terminals (17) to which distal end portions (19) of covered electric wires (13) are fixed, a sealing portion (23) integrally covering respective adjacent portions (27) of the terminals (17) and coverings (21) of the covered electric wires (13) that are provided side by side, and a housing (25) integrally covering around the sealing portion (23). An injection gate mark (47) produced due to an injection molding of an insulative resin is formed on a coupling portion (49) of the housing (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeo Mori, Masayuki Kataoka, Fuminori Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Koda
  • Publication number: 20130239531
    Abstract: An air cleaner reliably seals hermetically without reducing capacity and increasing size. In the air cleaner including a housing constituted of a case in which an opening and an inlet port are formed, and a cover that has an outlet port formed, and hermetically seals the opening, and including a filter element that partitions an inside of the housing into a dust side on a side of the inlet port, and a clean side on a side of the outlet port, the filter element including a filter portion that filters a fluid flowing from the inlet port, and a flange portion having a seal device that hermetically seals the opening along the opening and is formed by being extended toward an outer side of the housing, a seal device protection portion extending along an extending direction of the flange portion is further formed on the flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Koda
  • Patent number: 8394158
    Abstract: An air cleaner is provided with: a case in which a filter element is housed and which has an opening; a cover that covers the opening of the case to be opened or closed; a hinge structure having a hinge formed to the cover and a hinge receiver formed to the case to be engaged with the hinge in a detachable manner such that the cover is pivotal around the hinge with respect to the case; and an engagement maintaining mechanism provided to side surfaces of the case and the cover so as to maintain the engagement between the case and the cover in a range in which the cover closes the case and in a range in which the cover is opened by a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Roki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikara Shimomura, Yoshitaka Koda
  • Publication number: 20100257828
    Abstract: An air cleaner is provided with: a case in which a filter element is housed and which has an opening; a cover that covers the opening of the case to be opened or closed; a hinge structure having a hinge formed to the cover and a hinge receiver formed to the case to be engaged with the hinge in a detachable manner such that the cover is pivotal around the hinge with respect to the case; and an engagement maintaining mechanism provided to side surfaces of the case and the cover so as to maintain the engagement between the case and the cover in a range in which the cover closes the case and in a range in which the cover is opened by a predetermined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: ROKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHIKARA SHIMOMURA, YOSHITAKA KODA