Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Higuchi

Yukihiro Higuchi 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: 10458423
    Abstract: An impeller of this disclosure includes a hub having a ring shape; and a plurality of blades that are provided on an outer periphery of the hub, wherein the blade has a trailing edge formed such that an inner side of a radial width of the blade is curved in a direction opposite to a rotation direction, in a plan view as viewed in a direction of a rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.
    Inventors: Naoya Murakami, Yukihiro Higuchi, Haruomi Morohashi, Toshiaki Seima, Koichi Tamai
  • Publication number: 20190274541
    Abstract: An OCT data processing device includes a processor that performs acquiring three-dimensional OCT data. The three-dimensional OCT data is OCT data of a tissue of a subject's eye acquired by an OCT device and is obtained by irradiating measurement light on a two-dimensional measurement region. The two-dimensional measurement region extends in a direction intersecting an optical axis of the measurement light. The processor further preforms setting a line pattern, from among a plurality of types of line pattern, with respect to the two-dimensional measurement region for which the three-dimensional OCT data is obtained, at least one of an arrangement, a number, or a shape of one or more lines being different for the plurality of types of line pattern, and extracting, from the three-dimensional OCT data, a two-dimensional tomographic image of a cross section intersecting each of the one or more lines of the set line pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Tetsuya KANO, Ryosuke SHIBA
  • Patent number: 10378547
    Abstract: An axial flow fan includes an impeller having a hub and vanes disposed at equal intervals on an outer peripheral portion of the hub; a rotor shaft located at the center of the impeller; a motor portion rotating the impeller around the rotor shaft as an axis; a casing surrounding an outer periphery of the impeller; a base portion supporting the motor portion; and a stationary blade located in a blowout opening side of air flow, the stationary blade connecting the base portion and the casing, wherein the stationary blade has on its surface a guide portion allowing air flow flowing along the surface to be rectified and guided from a direction of the blowout opening to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Taroda, Yukihiro Higuchi, Tomoyoshi Sasajima
  • Patent number: 10238281
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes an OCT optical system that irradiates a tissue of the subject's eye with measurement light from a light source, and detects interference between reference light and the measurement light reflected from the tissue by using a detector, and a processor, in which the processor performs a generation process of acquiring A-scan data based on a signal output from the detector in a cycle of 300 kilohertz or more and generating three-dimensional OCT data at any time based on the acquired A-scan data, and performs an analysis process on each piece of the three-dimensional OCT data generated at any time through the generation process, so as to output a real-time analysis result of the three-dimensional OCT data which is generated at any time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Isogai, Hideki Aono, Yukihiro Higuchi, Yuji Murase, Norimasa Satake, Keiji Murata
  • Patent number: 10125774
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes: a casing; and an impeller that is attached to a rotation shaft of a motor, wherein the casing has an upper suction port and a lower suction port, wherein the impeller has a rotor hub, a plurality of blades arranged around the rotor hub in a circumferential direction, and a main plate coupled to the rotor hub and connects the blades in the circumferential direction, and wherein an inclination of an outer edge of the blades at an upper blade portion that is located above the main plate with respect to a plane parallel to the rotation shaft and an inclination of the outer edge of the blades at a lower blade portion that is located below the main plate with respect to the plane parallel to the rotation shaft are set to be in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Higuchi, Naoya Murakami
  • Patent number: 10070780
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes: a photographing optical system that includes a scanning unit for scanning an examinee's eye with measurement light to obtain a tomographic image of the examinee's eye; an observing optical system that includes a light-receiving device for receiving reflected light from the examinee's eye to obtain a moving image of a front image of the examinee's eye based on a light-receiving signal from the light-receiving device; a display controller for displaying the front image acquired by the observing optical system in a still state on a monitor as well as enabling setting of a capturing position of the tomographic image, the setting using the front image; and a drive controller for controlling the scanning unit to acquire the tomographic image in accordance with the capturing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Murase, Yukihiro Higuchi, Norimasa Satake
  • Publication number: 20180223862
    Abstract: An axial fan comprises an impeller. The impeller comprises a hub and a plurality of blades disposed on an outer circumference of the hub. A pressure surface of each of the blades is at least partially a convex surface bulging from a suction surface side to a pressure surface side. The convex surface is provided within a predetermined region of the pressure surface of the blade on a hub side. The predetermined region is arranged as part of a radial width of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi SASAJIMA, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Naoya MURAKAMI, Koichi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20180094634
    Abstract: There is provided a fan apparatus having a high-strength structure for supporting an impeller and a motor with good air quantity characteristics. The fan apparatus has a motor, an impeller, a motor base portion, a frame and a plurality of spoke portions. The impeller has a plurality of blades and are arranged to be rotated by the motor. The motor base portion supports the motor. The frame has an annular inner peripheral wall formed to surround the impeller as viewed from a rotation axis direction. The spoke portions connect the motor base portion and the frame. An end portion of the blade in the side of the frame is inside the inner peripheral wall and a blade portion having a length not less than half the length of the blade in the rotation axis direction is exposed, as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Haruomi MOROHASHI, Koichi TAMAI, Toshiaki SEIMA, Yukihiro HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180064336
    Abstract: An ophthalmic analysis apparatus for analyzing OCT motion contrast (MC) image data of a subject's eye acquired using an OCT apparatus for ophthalmology includes analysis process means for analyzing the OCT MC image data, in which the analysis process means generates OCT blood vessel change data including temporal change information in relation to a blood vessel region of the subject's eye based on first OCT MC image data and second OCT MC image data acquired at mutually different times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya KANO, Norimasa SATAKE, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170360294
    Abstract: An OCT motion contrast data acquisition method using an optical coherence tomography device includes: controlling an optical scanner for scanning measurement light on a test subject; performing a first scanning control for obtaining a first OCT signal group including at least four temporally different OCT signals at a same scanning position; performing a second scanning control for obtaining a second OCT signal group including at least four temporally different OCT signals at the same scanning position; obtaining first motion contrast data based on the first OCT signal group obtained in the first scanning control; obtaining second motion contrast data based on the second OCT signal group obtained in the second scanning control; and obtaining third motion contrast data based on the first motion contrast data and the second motion contrast data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norimasa SATAKE, Yukihiro HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170350409
    Abstract: An impeller of this disclosure includes a hub having a ring shape; and a plurality of blades that are provided on an outer periphery of the hub, wherein the blade has a trailing edge formed such that an inner side of a radial width of the blade is curved in a direction opposite to a rotation direction, in a plan view as viewed in a direction of a rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Naoya MURAKAMI, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Haruomi MOROHASHI, Toshiaki SEIMA, Koichi TAMAI
  • Patent number: 9795291
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes: an OCT optical system configured to obtain a OCT signal; a front observation optical system configured to obtain a front image of the test substance; and a controller is configured to: control the OCT optical system to obtain first temporally different OCT signals with respect to the test substance; control the front observation optical system to obtain a first front image of the test substance at the time the first OCT signals are obtained; control the front observation optical system to obtain a second front image of the test substance after that; determine whether or not the plurality of first OCT signals are good based on a positional deviation between the first and second front images; and obtain motion contrast data of the test substance when it is determined that the plurality of first OCT signals are good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norimasa Satake, Yukihiro Higuchi, Naoki Takeno
  • Publication number: 20170238798
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes an OCT optical system that irradiates a tissue of the subject's eye with measurement light from a light source, and detects interference between reference light and the measurement light reflected from the tissue by using a detector, and a processor, in which the processor performs a generation process of acquiring A-scan data based on a signal output from the detector in a cycle of 300 kilohertz or more and generating three-dimensional OCT data at any time based on the acquired A-scan data, and performs an analysis process on each piece of the three-dimensional OCT data generated at any time through the generation process, so as to output a real-time analysis result of the three-dimensional OCT data which is generated at any time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki ISOGAI, Hideki AONO, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Yuji MURASE, Norimasa SATAKE, Keiji MURATA
  • Publication number: 20170211589
    Abstract: An axial fan is provided which has a high degree of freedom of design of a condition of gas to be discharged. An axial fan 1 of the present disclosure comprises a discharge port; a rotation axis; an impeller 23; and a casing 30 including a side wall 31 part that encloses the impeller 23, wherein the side wall part 31 includes a plurality of inner face parts 37a1 in a circumferential direction on the discharge port 2 side, and an inner face part angle is an angle of the inner face part 37a1 with respect to the rotation axis, and the inner face part angle on an outwardly spreading side with respect to the rotation axis is a positive angle, and the inner face part angles are greater than 0°, and the two inner face parts adjacent to each other have different inner face part angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya MURAKAMI, Yukihiro HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9664196
    Abstract: An axial flow fan motor 100 comprises: a casing outer frame 61; an impeller 10; a rotor shaft 20 as a rotation axis at a center of the impeller 10; a bearing housing 30 in an inside of a rotor housing 11; and a base portion hub 62 in an air blowout opening side 2, wherein, in a cross-sectional view along the rotation axis, the base portion hub 62 has an outer peripheral portion 65 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?1 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis, and the casing outer frame 61 has an inner peripheral portion 67 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?2 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Higuchi, Atsushi Taroda
  • Publication number: 20170112377
    Abstract: An ophthalmic analysis device for analyzing OCT motion contrast data including blood vessel information of a subject eye acquired by an ophthalmic OCT, includes: an analysis processing means configured to analyze the OCT motion contrast data to acquire a measurement result related to a capillary area of the subject eye, wherein the analysis processing means an alleviating process for alleviating the influence of great blood vessels having blood vessel diameters larger than those of capillaries on the measurement result to acquire the measurement result related to the capillary area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke SHIBA, Norimasa SATAKE, Tetsuya KANO, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI, Yuki KUNO, Ai TAKAYA, Naoki TAKENO, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Hajime NAMIKI
  • Patent number: 9591967
    Abstract: An optical tomographic imaging device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a tissue of an object, includes: a dividing device configured to divide a light beam emitted from a light source into measurement light and reference light; a combining device configured to combine the measurement light, which is separated by the dividing device and is reflected from the tissue, with the reference light so as to generate interference light for acquiring the tomographic image; a plurality of irradiation devices, each of the plurality of irradiation devices being configured to guide the measurement light and irradiate the tissue with the measurement light: and a switching device configured to switch the plurality of irradiation devices from one to another and select one of the plurality of irradiation devices to cause the selected irradiation device to irradiate the measurement light output from the dividing device with tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Nishiyama, Yukihiro Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20160367133
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes: an OCT optical system configured to obtain a OCT signal; a front observation optical system configured to obtain a front image of the test substance; and a controller is configured to: control the OCT optical system to obtain first temporally different OCT signals with respect to the test substance; control the front observation optical system to obtain a first front image of the test substance at the time the first OCT signals are obtained; control the front observation optical system to obtain a second front image of the test substance after that; determine whether or not the plurality of first OCT signals are good based on a positional deviation between the first and second front images; and obtain motion contrast data of the test substance when it is determined that the plurality of first OCT signals are good.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norimasa SATAKE, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Naoki TAKENO
  • Publication number: 20160287068
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes: a photographing optical system that includes a scanning unit for scanning an examinee's eye with measurement light to obtain a tomographic image of the examinee's eye; an observing optical system that includes a light-receiving device for receiving reflected light from the examinee's eye to obtain a moving image of a front image of the examinee's eye based on a light-receiving signal from the light-receiving device; a display controller for displaying the front image acquired by the observing optical system in a still state on a monitor as well as enabling setting of a capturing position of the tomographic image, the setting using the front image; and a drive controller for controlling the scanning unit to acquire the tomographic image in accordance with the capturing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji MURASE, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Norimasa SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20160153458
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes: a casing; and an impeller that is attached to a rotation shaft of a motor, wherein the casing has an upper suction port and a lower suction port, wherein the impeller has a rotor hub, a plurality of blades arranged around the rotor hub in a circumferential direction, and a main plate coupled to the rotor hub and connects the blades in the circumferential direction, and wherein an inclination of an outer edge of the blades at an upper blade portion that is located above the main plate with respect to a plane parallel to the rotation shaft and an inclination of the outer edge of the blades at a lower blade portion that is located below the main plate with respect to the plane parallel to the rotation shaft are set to be in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Naoya MURAKAMI