Patents by Inventor Yuichi Ueda

Yuichi Ueda 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: 12630365
    Abstract: In order to determine, without a trial, whether or not an article can be transferred and in order to reset the article in a case where the article cannot be transferred, provided is a transfer system including: a first determining section that determines whether or not a transferring section can hold and transfer an article, on the basis of a posture of the article an image of which has been captured by a camera section; and an adjusting section that, in a case where the first determining section determines that the transferring section cannot transfer the article, controls a driving section and a holding direction changing section so that the posture and a position of the article are adjusted to a posture and a position that allow the transferring section to transfer the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Minoo, Hiroyuki Kusube, Yuichi Ueda, Masashi Morikawa, Tomokazu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12623840
    Abstract: An overturning prevention device includes a shaking occurrence information acquisition section configured to acquire shaking occurrence information indicating that shaking of a travel face where a moving body travels is equal to or more than a predetermined reference value; a support arm supported by the moving body; and an arm driving device configured to drive the support arm. The support arm is configured to be changeable between a projecting state where the support arm projects outwardly in a vehicle-body width direction from the moving body to be grounded on a travel face outside the moving body in the vehicle-body width direction and a retracted state where the support arm is retracted inside a width dimension of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masashige Iwata, Kazunari Kimura, Satoshi Horie
  • Publication number: 20260125229
    Abstract: A transfer system (1) includes a partition part (24) which separates (i) a work area (25) positioned opposite to a transporting part (11) across a transferring part (12) in a plan view and (ii) an outside area from each other. The partition part (24) includes a first portion (24a) provided so as to be opposite to the transferring part (12) across the work area (25) and a second portion (24b) provided so as to be inclined at an obtuse angle with respect to the first portion (24a) as seen from the work area (25) in a plan view, the second portion (24b) being provided with an entry-and-egress door for the work area (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Applicant: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi UEDA, Kunihiro TSUKAMOTO, Kosuke MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 12608023
    Abstract: An article transport facility includes a plurality of transport vehicles. In a combined state in which the plurality of transport vehicles are combined in such a manner as to be adjacent to each other, the plurality of transport vehicles constitute a transport route in which a plurality of transfer sections cooperate to transport articles. While the transport vehicle performs a combining operation with a combination target vehicle that is another transport vehicle that is a combination target, the control unit at least partially disables a surrounding area sensor so as not to detect the combination target vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20260106471
    Abstract: To protect an integrated circuit from abnormally high voltage applied to an external terminal in a semiconductor device mounted with an integrated circuit for controlling charge/discharge of a secondary battery, the semiconductor device includes: first external terminal connected to secondary battery; second external terminal electrically connected to first external terminal and configured to output voltage received from secondary battery to outside; third external terminal configured to be entered or output a signal from/to outside; first integrated circuit configured to control charge/discharge of secondary battery and including first signal terminal configured to be entered or output a signal; and second integrated circuit, the second integrated circuit including: second signal terminal connected to third external terminal; third signal terminal connected to first signal terminal; first switch positioned between second signal terminal and third signal terminal; and anti-overvoltage protection circuit confi
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi UEDA, Junji TAKESHITA
  • Patent number: 12325586
    Abstract: A picking system includes a multi-tier sorting device having ports in a plurality of tiers at different levels in a top-bottom direction, and sorts and discharges each of articles to one of the ports in the plurality of tiers; a plurality of first transport devices respectively corresponding to the ports in the plurality of tiers; and a second transport device configured to receive the articles from the first transport device and transport the articles. The second transport device has a second transport surface movable upward and downward, and, in a state where the second transport surface is located at a height corresponding to a terminal end portion of the first transport surface of one of the plurality of first transport devices, the second transport device receives the articles discharged from the terminal end portion of the first transport surface and transports the articles, with use of the second transport surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Tatemi, Masaya Miyamoto, Wataru Kiyokawa, Kazunari Kimura, Masashige Iwata, Yuichi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20250147531
    Abstract: Disclosed is a current detection circuit including: a current-to-voltage converter; a comparator including one input terminal to which a voltage that is current-to-voltage converted is input and the other input terminal to which a voltage as a reference for comparison or a voltage converted from the current to be detected is input; and a hysteresis circuit. The hysteresis circuit includes: a current source circuit; and a switch connected in series with the current source circuit, and the switch is switched to an on state or an off state by output of the comparator, thereby a current flowed in the current-to-voltage converter is increased or decreased by the current of the current source circuit, and the voltage converted from the current to be detected or from the reference current changes and thereby the hysteresis circuit provides hysteresis to the comparison operation of the comparator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi UEDA, Yoshiki TAKABATAKE
  • Publication number: 20250117027
    Abstract: An article transport facility includes a plurality of transport vehicles. In a combined state in which the plurality of transport vehicles are combined in such a manner as to be adjacent to each other, the plurality of transport vehicles constitute a transport route in which a plurality of transfer sections cooperate to transport articles. While the transport vehicle performs a combining operation with a combination target vehicle that is another transport vehicle that is a combination target, the control unit at least partially disables a surrounding area sensor so as not to detect the combination target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventor: Yuichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 12194382
    Abstract: A place designated by a player on a user interface is set according to an operation input. An item or character that the player is to transmit to another information processing apparatus for exchange is designated according to an operation input. In the exchange, information about the place and information about the item or character are transmitted as information about a thing to be exchanged to the another information processing apparatus. Information about the place designated by an exchanging partner and information about the item or character designated by the exchanging partner are received as information about a thing to be exchanged from the another information processing apparatus. The item or character that has been obtained as the thing to be exchanged from the exchanging partner by the exchange, is displayed on the user interface at the place designated by the exchanging partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Akira Kinashi, Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 12172834
    Abstract: A control unit controls a transfer machine to execute: a first article delivery operation to store a target article in a first placement region as a first article; and a second article position adjustment operation of moving a second locking member disposed between the first article and a second article in a depth direction toward a depth-direction far side to a position corresponding to a position of a front surface portion of the second article located at a second article proper position, and the control unit is configured to, after the target article has been stored in the first placement region as the first article, cause the transfer machine to execute the second article position adjustment operation, and, upon end of the second article position adjustment operation, cause a first locking member be restored to a position corresponding to a holding region to end the first article delivery operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masashige Iwata
  • Patent number: 12157055
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system sets a room in a virtual space based on an operation input provided by a player and places an item object in the room. If an item object is placed in a room by the player, the information processing system increases the appearance rate of a character of a type relating to the placed item object in accordance with the type of the placed item object and causes a character to appear in the virtual space based on the increased appearance rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 12151163
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system displays a character based on a character model of a first type in a first scene in the game, and based on a character model of a second type in a second scene. In a third scene, a wearable item is selected in response to a selection instruction. In the third scene, the character based on the character model of the first type having the appearance of wearing the selected wearable item is displayed, and the character based on the character model of the second type having the appearance of wearing the wearable item is displayed. When a confirm instruction is given, settings regarding the appearance of the character are changed so as to reflect the wearable item on the appearance of the character in the first scene and the second scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 12151165
    Abstract: When a first user interface is chosen according to a choice instruction based on an operation input, a two-dimensional user interface object indicating an arrangement range of decorative items is displayed, and decorative items are disposed at locations in the range designated according to an operation input. When a second user interface is chosen, a three-dimensional user interface object indicating an arrangement range of decorative items is displayed, and decorative items are disposed at locations in the range designated according to an operation input. Types and arrangement of the decorative items on the two-dimensional object, or types and arrangement of the decorative items on the three-dimensional object, are stored into a storage medium according to a determination instruction based on an operation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKEMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 12122600
    Abstract: A control unit causes a transfer machine to execute a first article take-out operation by moving a locking part to a depth-direction near side with the locking part locked to a rear surface portion of a first article; and a second article position adjustment operation of moving the locking part disposed between the first article and a second article in the depth direction toward a far side to a position corresponding to a front surface portion of the second article located at a second article proper position, and the control unit is configured to, after the locking part has been disposed between the first article and the second article during execution of the first article take-out operation using the transfer machine, cause the transfer machine to execute the second article position adjustment operation, and to complete the first article take-out operation upon completion of the second article position adjustment operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masashige Iwata
  • Publication number: 20240150122
    Abstract: In order to determine, without a trial, whether or not an article can be transferred and in order to reset the article in a case where the article cannot be transferred, provided is a transfer system including: a first determining section that determines whether or not a transferring section can hold and transfer an article, on the basis of a posture of the article an image of which has been captured by a camera section; and an adjusting section that, in a case where the first determining section determines that the transferring section cannot transfer the article, controls a driving section and a holding direction changing section so that the posture and a position of the article are adjusted to a posture and a position that allow the transferring section to transfer the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi MINOO, Hiroyuki KUSUBE, Yuichi UEDA, Masashi MORIKAWA, Tomokazu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240092568
    Abstract: An overturning prevention device includes a shaking occurrence information acquisition section configured to acquire shaking occurrence information indicating that shaking of a travel face where a moving body travels is equal to or more than a predetermined reference value; a support arm supported by the moving body; and an arm driving device configured to drive the support arm. The support arm is configured to be changeable between a projecting state where the support arm projects outwardly in a vehicle-body width direction from the moving body to be grounded on a travel face outside the moving body in the vehicle-body width direction and a retracted state where the support arm is retracted inside a width dimension of the moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masashige Iwata, Kazunari Kimura, Satoshi Horie
  • Publication number: 20240025646
    Abstract: A picking system is realized that can efficiently perform operations from collection to delivery of articles in a limited space. A picking system (1) includes: a multi-row sorting device (2) configured to sort the article into one of the plurality of rows of exits (21) and discharge the sorted article; a container supporting device (3) capable of supporting an accommodating container (B) on a plurality of rows of container supporting portions (32) until an article group that is a set of articles for the order is collected; and a transport device (4) configured to unload the accommodating container (B) in which the article is accommodated from the container supporting portion (32), and load an empty accommodating container (B) to the container supporting portion (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masaya Miyamoto, Masashige Iwata, Kazunari Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230415994
    Abstract: An article storage facility includes a first multilevel rack including first shelves; a second multilevel rack including second shelves; a standby station that is disposed between the first multilevel rack and the second multilevel rack and include a standby conveyor; a transfer shuttle that transfers articles between the standby conveyor, the first shelves, and the second shelves; a first raising and lowering apparatus that is disposed between the first multilevel rack and the standby station and includes a first raising and lowering mechanism that raises and lowers a first raising and lowering conveyor that transfers the articles to and from the standby conveyor- and a second raising and lowering apparatus that is disposed between the second multilevel rack and the standby station and includes a second raising and lowering mechanism that raises and lowers a second raising and lowering conveyor that transfers the articles to and from the standby conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masashige Iwata
  • Patent number: 11807458
    Abstract: A picking system is realized that can efficiently perform operations from collection to delivery of articles in a limited space. A picking system (1) includes: a multi-row sorting device (2) configured to sort the article into one of the plurality of rows of exits (21) and discharge the sorted article; a container supporting device (3) capable of supporting an accommodating container (B) on a plurality of rows of container supporting portions (32) until an article group that is a set of articles for the order is collected; and a transport device (4) configured to unload the accommodating container (B) in which the article is accommodated from the container supporting portion (32), and load an empty accommodating container (B) to the container supporting portion (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masaya Miyamoto, Masashige Iwata, Kazunari Kimura
  • Patent number: D1072277
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Kunihiro Tsukamoto, Kosuke Matsumoto