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公开(公告)号：US11241356B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-08
申请号：US16121243
申请日：2018-09-04
Inventor： Stephen William John , Jun Ozawa , Mayumi Komatsu , Kenta Murakami
Abstract: A walking assistance apparatus includes a knee fastener, a heel fastener, a first wire and a second wire connected to the knee fastener and the heel fastener, a first motor connected to the first wire, a second motor connected to the second wire, and a control circuit that controls the first motor and the second motor. The first wire is connected to a first position included in a right-half region of the heel fastener. The second wire is connected to a second position included in a left-half region of the heel fastener. The control circuit acquires gait information of the user, and, based on the gait information, the control circuit controls the first motor to reduce a length of the first wire and the second motor to reduce a length of the second wire at a predetermined timing.
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公开(公告)号：US11103413B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-31
申请号：US16161055
申请日：2018-10-16
Inventor： Stephen William John , Kenta Murakami , Hiroki Takeuchi , Shinobu Adachi
Abstract: An assistance apparatus includes wires, each of which couples an upper-body belt and one of left and right knee belts to each other, and a motor. When the assistance apparatus assists a user in walking backward while carrying an object, the motor generates, in a gait phase of a left leg, a tension greater than or equal to a second threshold value in a second wire during a fifth period other than a first period during which a tension greater than or equal to a first threshold value is generated, and a tension less than the second threshold value in a first wire during a sixth period other than a second period during which a tension greater than or equal to the first threshold value is generated, and generates, in a gait phase of a right leg, a tension greater than or equal to the second threshold value in a fourth wire during a seventh period other than a third period during which a tension greater than or equal to the first threshold value is generated, and a tension less than the second threshold value in a third wire during an eighth period other than a fourth period during which a tension greater than or equal to the first threshold value is generated.
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公开(公告)号：US11103410B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-31
申请号：US16158350
申请日：2018-10-12
Inventor： Kenta Murakami , Stephen William John , Hiroki Takeuchi , Shinobu Adachi
Abstract: An assistance apparatus includes a first wire and a second wire that couple an upper-body belt and a left knee belt to each other on or above a front part and back part of the body of a user, respectively, a third wire and a fourth wire that couple the upper-body belt and a right knee belt to each other on or above the front part and back part of the body of the user, respectively, a motor, a left sensor on the left hand of the user, and a right sensor on the right hand of the user. When a force is applied to the left sensor and no force is applied to the right sensor, the motor makes the tension of the second wire and the third wire greater than the tension of the first wire and the fourth wire. When a force is applied to the right sensor and no force is applied to the left sensor, the motor makes the tension of the first wire and the fourth wire greater than the tension of the second wire and the third wire.
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公开(公告)号：US10945070B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-09
申请号：US16511518
申请日：2019-07-15
Inventor： Stephen William John , Kazunobu Konishi , Katsuhiko Asai , Kazuo Inoue
Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: a sensor that includes at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines the quality of a target sound by use of the sound data generated by the microphone, identifies a sound source direction from the unmanned aircraft to the sound source of the target sound by use of data generated by the sensor, and controls an unmanned aircraft state that is a state of the unmanned aircraft such that a direction of a sound pickup area is aligned with the sound source direction, in accordance with the determined quality. The sound pickup area is a range in which sound pickup quality of the microphone is higher than that of another area.
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15.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10350128B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-16
申请号：US15012578
申请日：2016-02-01
Inventor： Takayuki Nagata , Stephen William John , Katsuhiko Asai
Abstract: An assist wear item is worn on a portion of a living body and has an inner surface brought into contact with the portion. The assist wear item includes assisting actuators, contact sensors, and a controller. Each assisting actuator is driven to expand and contract. The assisting actuators are linearly arranged along an expansion/contraction direction of a muscle at the portion. Each contact sensor detects a contact with an outer surface of the assist wear item. If the controller receives a detection result indicating a first contact from a first contact sensor among the contact sensors and receives a detection result indicating a second contact from a second contact sensor within a first time period after reception of the detection result indicating the first contact, the controller increases or decreases a driving power of expansion/contraction driving of an assisting actuator corresponding to the second contact sensor.
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Patent Agency Ranking
公开(公告)号：US20250071499A1
公开(公告)日：2025-02-27
申请号：US18941414
申请日：2024-11-08
Inventor： Shunsuke KUHARA , Stephen William John , Kazunobu Konishi , Katsuhiko Asai , Kazuo Inoue
IPC: H04S7/00 , B64U101/00
Abstract: An unmanned moving body includes a directional speaker that outputs sound in an orientation direction and a processor that obtains one or more instances of sensing data. The processor: determines whether or not a second target is present in a vicinity of a first target in accordance with at least one of the one or more instances of sensing data; calculates a positional relationship between the first target and the second target when it is determined that the second target is present; and determines a first position of the unmanned moving body in accordance with the positional relationship and causes the unmanned moving body to move to the first position, the first position being a position that places the first target and the second target within a range over which the sound from the directional speaker reaches at at least a predetermined quality.
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公开(公告)号：US11928974B2
公开(公告)日：2024-03-12
申请号：US17231679
申请日：2021-04-15
Inventor： Stephen William John , Kazunobu Konishi , Katsuhiko Asai , Kazuo Inoue , Shunsuke Kuhara
IPC: G08G5/00 , B64C39/02 , B64U10/13 , B64U30/20 , B64U101/30
CPC classification number: G08G5/0069 , B64C39/024 , B64U10/13 , B64U30/20 , B64U2101/30 , B64U2201/10
Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: a sensor that includes at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines quality of a target sound using the sound data generated by the microphone, obtains a positional relationship between the unmanned aircraft and a sound source of the target sound using data generated by the sensor, and controls movement of the unmanned aircraft to control a distance between the unmanned aircraft and the sound source of the target sound, in accordance with the quality of the target sound and the positional relationship.
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18.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11445769B2
公开(公告)日：2022-09-20
申请号：US16728354
申请日：2019-12-27
Inventor： Stephen William John , Katsuhiko Asai , Takayuki Nagata , Masaki Yamamoto
Abstract: An assist garment is configured to be worn on a part of a human body and includes a plurality of garment-fitting actuators placed linearly along at least one end portion of a garment body and configured to be driven to extend and contract, a plurality of assisting actuators placed linearly on the garment body to cross the plurality of garment-fitting actuators and configured to be driven to extend and contract, and a controller configured to individually control driving of the plurality of assisting actuators and driving of the plurality of garment-fitting actuators.
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公开(公告)号：US11325703B2
公开(公告)日：2022-05-10
申请号：US16460413
申请日：2019-07-02
Inventor： Katsuhiko Asai , Kazunobu Konishi , Stephen William John , Kazuo Inoue
Abstract: A control device includes a processor which: obtains first region information indicating a first region; obtains first position information indicating the position of an unmanned aerial vehicle tethered to a tethering device using a tether; and controls the tethering device using the first region information and the first position information to cause the tether to have tension corresponding to a specified distance which is at least one of the shortest distance between a boundary of the first region and the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a distance included in a predetermined range from the shortest distance.
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公开(公告)号：US11246789B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-15
申请号：US16155914
申请日：2018-10-10
Inventor： Kenta Murakami , Stephen William John , Hiroki Takeuchi , Shinobu Adachi
Abstract: An assistance apparatus includes wires, each of which couples an upper-body belt and one of left and right knee belts to each other, and a motor. To promote implementation of first assistance for a user in walking while carrying an object, the motor generates a tension greater than or equal to a third threshold value in a second wire and a fourth wire, a tension greater than or equal to the third threshold value in the second wire and a third wire, and a tension greater than or equal to the third threshold value in a first wire and the fourth wire. During execution of the operation described above, upon receipt of determination of implementation, to indicate that implementation of the first assistance is determined, the motor generates a tension greater than or equal to a fourth threshold value in the second wire and the fourth wire, a tension greater than or equal to the fourth threshold value in the second wire and the third wire, and a tension greater than or equal to the fourth threshold value in the first wire and the fourth wire.
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