Patents by Inventor Yuichi Sasaki

Yuichi Sasaki 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: 20200233521
    Abstract: An operation input device is provided with: a knob for operations, disposed in a display region of a touch display; a conductor column that is provided in the knob, and that can be detected as a touch point irrespective of whether or not the knob is in a state of being touched with user's finger; a touch point detecting unit for detecting a plurality of touch points including the touch point corresponding to the conductor column, and outputting touch information related to the plurality of detected touch points; a knob touch point determining unit for determining, by using the touch information, the touch point corresponding to the conductor column among the plurality of touch points detected by the touch point detecting unit; and a touch strength value calculating unit for calculating a touch strength value at the touch point corresponding to the conductor column by using the touch information and a determination result by the knob touch point determining unit; and a finger-touch-on-the-knob determining unit
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi SASAKI, Yuki FURUMOTO, Kimika IKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20200225765
    Abstract: An operation input device includes a knob for operations, disposed in a display region of a touch display; a plurality of conductor columns provided in the knob; a touch point detecting unit that detects a touch point corresponding to at least one of the plurality of conductor columns; a location determining unit that determines a location of at least one of the plurality of conductor columns, using a result of the detection by the touch point detecting unit; and a location estimating unit that estimates, when there is a conductor column that has not been detected as a touch point by the touch point detecting unit, a location of the conductor column that has not been detected as a touch point by the touch point detecting unit, using positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the plurality of conductor columns in the knob and location history information indicating a history of locations of the respective plurality of conductor columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi HORI, Yuichi SASAKI, Daisuke KISARA
  • Publication number: 20200225842
    Abstract: The operation input device determines an operation of one or a plurality of operation devices on the basis of the distance between touch points and the positional relationship of three or more touch points, and determines an operation corresponding to the touch point determined not to depend on the operation device as a touch operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke KISARA, Yuichi SASAKI, Atsushi HORI
  • Publication number: 20200210036
    Abstract: A touch input judgment device includes: a rotation direction judgment unit that determines a selection value change amount, to be added to a current selection value, when a rotation operation in a normal direction is inputted through a touch panel and stores rotation direction information in a storage unit when a rotation operation in the normal direction as a first rotation operation is performed; and a selection value change unit that sets a new current selection value after a change to a value obtained by adding a first selection value change amount to the current selection value when a rotation operation subsequent to the first rotation operation is a rotation operation in the normal direction and maintains the current selection value without change when the subsequent rotation operation is judged to be the return operation of the finger position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru HATAZAWA, Toshiyuki HAGIWARA, Daisuke KISARA, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yuichi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200182063
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steam turbine blade and a steam turbine capable of further improving efficiency. A steam turbine blade includes a proximal end portion T11 which is formed in a blade shape having an intermediate reaction degree, an intermediate portion T12 which is formed in a blade shape having a low reaction degree; and a distal end portion T13 which is formed in a blade shape having a high reaction degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Koda, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10645288
    Abstract: A first camera sends a first detection notification to a master device when detecting a person in a first imaging area, and starts transmission of a captured video of the first imaging area to the master device by shifting an operation mode from a sleep mode to a standby mode. The master device notifies a camera other than the first camera of a shift instruction to the standby mode in accordance with the first detection notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Takahashi, Daisuke Wakeyama, Takanobu Machida, Yuichi Sasaki, Yoko Oie, Koji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10641130
    Abstract: A turning device includes: a driving source; a main drive gear rotationally driven by the driving source; a driven gear that engages with the main drive gear and is rotated integrally with a rotated body, wherein the turning device rotationally drives the driving source to rotate the rotated body; a movement mechanism that causes the main drive gear to reciprocate in an axial direction between a separated position at which engagement of the main drive gear and the driven gear is released and an engaged position at which the main drive gear engages with the driven gear; a forward rotation mechanism that intermittently rotates the main drive gear; and a reverse rotation mechanism that intermittently rotates the main drive gear in a direction opposite to a direction by the forward rotation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10612419
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes: a stator vane disposed in a cylinder inside a casing through which steam flows from an upstream side toward a downstream side; and a stationary support that supports the stator vane relative to the casing. The stationary support includes: a first supporting body fixed to the casing, a second supporting body that connects the stator vane to the first supporting body; and a replacement body detachably disposed between the first supporting body and the second supporting body on the upstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Hiroaki Irikawa, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200049023
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes a casing which is dividable and of which both ends are open, and a bundle accommodated in the casing. The bundle includes a rotor, a plurality of diaphragms which can be divided, a bundle casing to which the diaphragm is fixed inside thereof, and a bearing portion fixed to an inside of the bundle casing on an outside of the diaphragm, and a seal portion fixed to the inside of the bundle casing between the diaphragm and the bearing portion. The bundle casing can be attached and detached to and from the casing in a state of holding the rotor, the diaphragm, the bearing portion, and the seal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200011205
    Abstract: A lifting jig can lift a rotor and a diaphragm of a steam turbine including a casing that covers the rotor that can be divided with a division surface and the diaphragm that can be divided into an upper half diaphragm and a lower half diaphragm with a division surface. A lifting jig has a diaphragm fixing unit that can be fixed to the upper half diaphragm, a first rotor supporting unit that is integrally formed with a diaphragm fixing unit and can support one end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, and a second rotor supporting unit that is integrally formed with the diaphragm fixing unit and can support the other end portion of the rotor in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Sasaki, Kyoichi Ikeno
  • Publication number: 20190330991
    Abstract: A method for measuring a pre-twist amount of a blade includes a spreading dimension acquiring step, a misalignment acquiring step, a correcting step, and a pre-twist amount acquiring step. In the spreading dimension acquiring step, circumferential spreading dimensions of each shroud-of two rotor blades are acquired. In the misalignment acquiring step, a misalignment amount in the direction of the axis between the shrouds of two rotor blades adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction is measured. In the correcting step, the spreading dimension acquired in the spreading dimension acquiring step is corrected on the basis of the misalignment amount acquired by the misalignment acquiring step. In the pre-twist amount acquiring step, the pre-twist amount of the blade is acquired on the basis of the spreading dimension corrected in the correcting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Tsurusaki, Yuki Nakamura, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190310755
    Abstract: In a coordinate correction apparatus, a coordinate acquisition unit sequentially acquires coordinates of touch positions on a touch panel when a touch operation is continued on the touch panel. When the coordinate acquisition unit acquires first coordinates which are coordinates of a new touch position, a coordinate correction unit calculates a weighted average of the first coordinates and second coordinates determined from coordinates of a past touch position acquired by the coordinate acquisition unit, with applying weighting that varies according to a touch movement amount on the touch panel. The coordinate correction unit outputs a calculation result as corrected coordinates. An application unit uses the corrected coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi SASAKI, Atsushi HORI, Kentaro MORI, Hiroyasu NEGISHI
  • Patent number: 10354856
    Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a discharge vessel. A xenon gas is sealed within the discharge vessel so as to serve as a light emitting gas, the discharge vessel is made from quartz glass, a pair of electrodes are arranged so as to face each other in the discharge vessel, and the discharge vessel has a chip portion. The chip portion is made from a glass member that has a composition different from that of the discharge vessel, and the glass member has a transmittance of 50% or more over a wavelength range from 170 nm to 300 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Sasaki, Takumi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20190211710
    Abstract: A steam turbine assembling method includes: disposing an upper half partition plate having an upper half partition plate division surface on an inner peripheral side of an upper half casing having an upper half casing division surface to form an upper half assembly; and, after disposing a lower half partition plate having a lower half partition plate division surface capable of abutting against the upper half partition plate division surface on an inner peripheral side of a lower half casing having a lower half casing division surface capable of abutting against the upper half casing division surface, fixing a lower half position defining portion to the lower half partition plate in a state where a lower half abutment surface abuts against the lower half casing division surface and the lower half partition plate division surface to form a lower half assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Hiroaki Irikawa, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190186298
    Abstract: A steam turbine assembling method includes an upper half assembling step of, after disposing an upper half partition plate having an upper half partition plate division surface on the inner peripheral side of an upper half casing having an upper half casing division surface, attaching an upper half position defining portion to the upper half casing and the upper half partition plate so as to form an upper half assembly, and a lower half assembling step of disposing a lower half partition plate having a lower half partition plate division surface capable of abutting against the upper half partition plate division surface on an inner peripheral side of a lower half casing having a lower half casing division surface capable of abutting against the upper half casing division surface so as to form a lower half assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Hiroaki Irikawa, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190172698
    Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a discharge vessel. A xenon gas is sealed within the discharge vessel so as to serve as a light emitting gas, the discharge vessel is made from quartz glass, a pair of electrodes are arranged so as to face each other in the discharge vessel, and the discharge vessel has a chip portion. The chip portion is made from a glass member that has a composition different from that of the discharge vessel, and the glass member has a transmittance of 50% or more over a wavelength range from 170 nm to 300 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi SASAKI, Takumi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20190152054
    Abstract: A gripping system includes a hand that grips a workpiece, a robot that supports the hand and changes at least one of a position and a posture of the hand, and an image sensor that acquires image information from a viewpoint interlocked with at least one of the position and the posture of the hand. Additionally, the gripping system includes a construction module that constructs a model by machine learning based on collection data. The model corresponds to at least a part of a process of specifying an operation command of the robot based on the image information acquired by the image sensor and hand position information representing at least one of the position and the posture of the hand. An operation module executes the operation command of the robot based on the image information, the hand position information, and the model, and a robot control module operates the robot based on the operation command of the robot operated by the operation module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Shota ISHIKAWA, Koji SOKABE, Keisuke NAKAMURA, Masaru ADACHI, Yuichi SASAKI, Antoine PASQUALI, Thomas WILMOTTE
  • Publication number: 20190095093
    Abstract: A gesture determination unit (143) extracts a moving locus of a pointer from a time when the pointer makes contact with the touch panel until the pointer goes away from the touch panel. Then, the gesture determination unit (143) identifies a control target parameter, which is a parameter of a control target, and a controlled variable of the control target parameter that are specified by a movement of the pointer, by analyzing the extracted moving locus of the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi HORI, Yuichi SASAKI, Hiroyasu NEGISHI, Kentaro MORI, Akira TORII, Takuya MAEKAWA, Toshiyuki HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20190082115
    Abstract: A first camera sends a first detection notification to a master device when detecting a person in a first imaging area, and starts transmission of a captured video of the first imaging area to the master device by shifting an operation mode from a sleep mode to a standby mode. The master device notifies a camera other than the first camera of a shift instruction to the standby mode in accordance with the first detection notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi TAKAHASHI, Daisuke WAKEYAMA, Takanobu MACHIDA, Yuichi SASAKI, Yoko OIE, Koji YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190003338
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes: a stator vane disposed in a cylinder inside a casing through which steam flows from an upstream side toward a downstream side; and a stationary support that supports the stator vane relative to the casing. The stationary support includes: a first supporting body fixed to the casing, a second supporting body that connects the stator vane to the first supporting body; and a replacement body detachably disposed between the first supporting body and the second supporting body on the upstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Hiroaki Irikawa, Yuichi Sasaki