Patents by Inventor Hideki Arai
Hideki Arai 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).
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Publication number: 20240123229Abstract: Provided is an electrostimulation device that outputs an electrical signal, the electrical signal obtained by repeatedly outputting a fifth electrical signal comprising a first electrical signal whose amplitude in a first time becomes larger from a first amplitude, a second electrical signal whose amplitude in a second time is maintained to a second amplitude, a third electrical signal whose amplitude in a third time becomes smaller to a third amplitude, and a fourth electrical signal whose amplitude in a fourth time is maintained to a fourth amplitude; and the first electrical signal output in a sixth time, that is obtained by repeatedly outputting an eighth electrical signal comprising a sixth electrical signal having a first frequency, the sixth electrical signal that is off in a seventh time, wherein the first frequency is controlled via first frequency control of changing from a second frequency to a third frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ITO CO., LTD.Inventors: Daigo YOSHIDA, Ryoichi TAKASU, Wataru ORITO, Osamu ITO, Hideki ARAI
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Patent number: 11955256Abstract: A signal transmission cable is provided with a conductor, an insulator covering around the conductor, a shield layer covering around the insulator, a sheath covering around the shield layer, and a plating base layer is provided between the insulator and the shield layer to cover around the insulator. The shield layer has a plating layer provided to cover the plating base layer to be in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the plating base layer. A surface roughness of an outer peripheral surface of the plating layer is less than a surface roughness of an inner peripheral surface of the plating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Sagawa, Detian Huang, Takahiro Sugiyama, Hideki Nonen, Masashi Arai, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Xinweilong Li
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Publication number: 20240101391Abstract: A system for detecting a presence of a person in a hoistway, having: one or more controllers configured to authenticate the person in the hoistway; the one or more controllers being operationally connected to an elevator car in the hoistway and configured to determine whether the person is within a predetermined distance of the elevator car from a signal emitter on the person; wherein when the person is within the predetermined distance of the elevator car, the one or more controllers is configured to transmit a feedback request to the person and stop the elevator car unless the one or more controllers receives feedback to the feedback request within a predetermined period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Jayapal Reddy Gireddy, Helge Krambeck, Xinjin Zheng, Yuzhen Xue, Koji Kiyomoto, Arnaud Blanchard, Daigoro Kurokawa, Kazuya Yamamura, Hideki Arai, Terumitsu Saito, Hideaki Sasaki, Takashi Tanaka, Naoto Furuichi
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Publication number: 20240088574Abstract: An antenna module includes a first sub array to a fourth sub array. The first sub array to the fourth sub array have a rectangular substrate. Each of the first sub array to the fourth sub array includes a plurality of radiation electrodes disposed along an extending direction of a long side. The first sub array to the fourth sub array are configured to radiate radio waves of the first polarized wave to the fourth polarized wave, respectively. The first polarized wave is different from the second polarized wave, and the third polarized wave is different from the fourth polarized wave. The first polarized wave is the same as the third polarized wave, and the second polarized wave is the same as the fourth polarized wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kota ARAI, Ryo KOMURA, Hideki UEDA
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Publication number: 20230038698Abstract: The present technique relates to an imaging element and a distance measurement module capable of reducing parasitic capacity._A distance measurement module includes: a first wiring that connects predetermined transistors in first adjacent pixels to a via formed in one of first adjacent pixels and connected to a wiring formed in another layer; and a second wiring that connects predetermined transistors in second adjacent pixels to a via formed in a pixel that is adjacent to one of second adjacent pixels and connected to a wiring formed in another layer, in which the first wiring is connected to a redundant wiring. The present technique can be applied to a distance measurement sensor that performs distance measurement, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki ARAI, Yusuke OTAKE, Takuro MURASE, Takeshi YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230044912Abstract: The present technology relates to an image sensor, an imaging device, and a ranging device capable of performing imaging so that noise is reduced. A photoelectric conversion unit configured to perform photoelectric conversion; a charge accumulation unit configured to accumulate charges obtained by the photoelectric conversion unit; a transfer unit configured to transfer the charges from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge accumulation unit; a reset unit configured to reset the charge accumulation unit; a reset voltage control unit configured to control a voltage to be applied to the reset unit; and an additional control unit configured to control addition of capacitance to the charge accumulation unit are included. The charge accumulation unit includes a plurality of regions. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging device that captures an image and a ranging device that performs ranging.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: HIDEKI ARAI, YUSUKE OTAKE, TAKURO MURASE, TAKESHI YAMAZAKI, TAISUKE SUWA
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Patent number: 11459207Abstract: A safety link for an elevator car traveling in an elevator hoistway includes a hitch bracket slidably mounted to the elevator car frame so as to be movable in the moving directions of the elevator car and biased toward the downward movement direction of the elevator car in normal operating condition, the hitch bracket connected to the governor rope, and a pulley rotatably mounted to the hitch bracket and including an actuation wire wrapped around the pulley and connected to a safety device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Hideki Arai, Tanaka Takashi, Hideaki Sasaki, Michiyuki Sato, Shinichiro Oga
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Publication number: 20220239849Abstract: Provided is an imaging device that makes it possible to exhibit a better imaging performance. The imaging device includes a semiconductor layer, a pixel separation section, a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections, and a plurality of electric charge voltage conversion sections. The semiconductor layer has a surface that extends in an in-plane direction, and a back face positioned on an opposite side of the surface in a thickness direction. The pixel separation section extends from the surface to the back face in the thickness direction, and separates the semiconductor layer into a plurality of pixel regions in the in-plane direction. The plurality of photoelectric conversion sections is respectively provided in the plurality of pixel regions of the semiconductor layer separated by the pixel separation section, and is each configured to generate, by a photoelectric conversion, electric charge corresponding to a light amount of incident light from the back face.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: HIDEKI ARAI, YUSUKE OTAKE, TAKURO MURASE
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Publication number: 20210403286Abstract: A safety link for an elevator car traveling in an elevator hoistway includes a hitch bracket slidably mounted to the elevator car frame so as to be movable in the moving directions of the elevator car and biased toward the downward movement direction of the elevator car in normal operating condition, the hitch bracket connected to the governor rope, and a pulley rotatably mounted to the hitch bracket and including an actuation wire wrapped around the pulley and connected to a safety device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Hideki Arai, Tanaka Takashi, Hideaki Sasaki, Michiyuki Sato, Shinichiro Oga
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Patent number: 10897655Abstract: To make it possible to easily use video data of raw data of a high frame rate input from a single-chip camera in a server system that is different from an AV server system in which an AV server itself is included. First AV clip data is obtained by performing a compression encoding process to raw data of a high frame rate input from a single-chip camera and is written in a storage. The raw data of the high frame rate is obtained by reading the first AV clip data from the storage and processing a compression decoding process on the first AV clip data, video data of a high frame rate is obtained by performing a demosaic process on the raw data, and second AV clip data is obtained by performing a compression encoding process on the video data and is written in the storage. The second AV clip data is read from the storage and transmitted to a second AV server system that is different from a first AV server system in which an AV server itself is included.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Arai, Kaoru Urata, Mamoru Mizukami, Yasuhiro Ichinaka, Akira Itou, Kenta Abe, Yoshihide Fujimoto, Takashi Hoshi
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Patent number: 10362266Abstract: This apparatus includes: a video input unit that inputs a first video signal captured at a first frame resolution by a camera, to which a time data item of each frame has been added; a video storage unit that stores the first video data item of each frame of the first video signal in association with the time data item; a position information input unit that receives a position information item of a particular moving object included in the first video signal as a part of a subject; a position information storage unit that stores the received position information item in association with a time; and a controller that reads, from the position information storage unit, the one or more position information items for each particular time interval, calculates a cut region including one or more positions respectively indicated by these information items, cuts the video data item of the cut region from the first video data item of the time interval, and generates the second video data item having the second frame resType: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Arai, Sensaburo Nakamura, Atsushi Nakayama, Tsutomu Miyauchi
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Publication number: 20190028776Abstract: To make it possible to easily use video data of raw data of a high frame rate input from a single-chip camera in a server system that is different from an AV server system in which an AV server itself is included. First AV clip data is obtained by performing a compression encoding process to raw data of a high frame rate input from a single-chip camera and is written in a storage. The raw data of the high frame rate is obtained by reading the first AV clip data from the storage and processing a compression decoding process on the first AV clip data, video data of a high frame rate is obtained by performing a demosaic process on the raw data, and second AV clip data is obtained by performing a compression encoding process on the video data and is written in the storage. The second AV clip data is read from the storage and transmitted to a second AV server system that is different from a first AV server system in which an AV server itself is included.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki ARAI, Kaoru URATA, Mamoru MIZUKAMI, Yasuhiro ICHINAKA, Akira ITOU, Kenta ABE, Yoshihide FUJIMOTO, Takashi HOSHI
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Publication number: 20180035076Abstract: This apparatus includes: a video input unit that inputs a first video signal captured at a first frame resolution by a camera, to which a time data item of each frame has been added; a video storage unit that stores the first video data item of each frame of the first video signal in association with the time data item; a position information input unit that receives a position information item of a particular moving object included in the first video signal as a part of a subject; a position information storage unit that stores the received position information item in association with a time; and a controller that reads, from the position information storage unit, the one or more position information items for each particular time interval, calculates a cut region including one or more positions respectively indicated by these information items, cuts the video data item of the cut region from the first video data item of the time interval, and generates the second video data item having the second frame resType: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: HIDEKI ARAI, SENSABURO NAKAMURA, ATSUSHI NAKAYAMA, TSUTOMU MIYAUCHI
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Patent number: 9682412Abstract: Hemming finishing pliers press and thereby bring a folded portion of a panel into close contact with an inner surface side of the panel facing the folded portion, by a clamping action of first and second holding arms. A pressure receiving plate for supporting an outer surface of the panel is provided in a tip end portion of the first holding arm. A pressing claw for pressing the folded portion against the panel supported by the plate is provided in a tip end portion of the second holding arm. A pressure receiving surface of the plate facing the outer surface of the panel is set wider than a pressing surface of the claw facing the folded portion. A supporting wall for supporting a flexed part of the folded portion is formed in the plate. Accordingly, the pliers enable efficient hemming finishing without requiring a skill.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Arai, Hiroyuki Hanada
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Patent number: 9643820Abstract: An exemplary device for preventing travel of an elevator car when a car door is open includes a receiver that remains in a fixed position relative to a hoistway wall. A stop member moves responsive to the car door moving toward an open position such that the stop member engages the receiver to prevent movement of the elevator car when the door is open.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Hideki Arai, Yasunobu Uchino, Shunji Imai
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Patent number: 9539705Abstract: Bending pliers include first and second plier bodies connected together relatively turnably in mutually intersecting intermediate portions thereof by a pivot shaft, the bodies including first and second holding arms formed on one-end sides of the bodies, respectively, the arms respectively having plate-shaped first and second claw portions formed in their respective tip end portions and configured to hold a panel to be bent, and first and second handles formed on opposite-end sides of the bodies, respectively, and configured to open and close the arms, wherein a columnar bending fulcrum portion extending parallel to the shaft and projecting toward the second claw portion is formed at a tip end of the first claw portion, and a tip end of the second claw portion faces the fulcrum portion with a gap therebetween. The pliers form the bead portion in a smooth tubular shape in a folded portion of the panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Arai, Hiroyuki Hanada
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Patent number: 9434579Abstract: An exemplary roller guide assembly for an elevator device comprises a shaft supporting a roller for engaging a guide rail, a shaft support member that receives the shaft therein, and a member inserted between the shaft and the aforementioned shaft support member. According to this invention, because the shaft is supported by the shaft support member via the elastic member, when the rollers are biased in the horizontal direction by the guide rail, the member limits the shaft from turning relative to the shaft support member.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Hideki Arai, Takami Koyama, Tsuyoshi Sekine, Hideki Nakano
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Patent number: 9382098Abstract: An elevator car (1) which moves vertically along the hoistway is provided with a roller guide assembly (3) guided by a guide rail (2). The roller guide assembly (3) is provided with a horizontal fixing shaft (8) which is fixed to a base member (6) and rollers (5a, 5b, 5c) which are supported by the horizontal fixing shaft (8). The rollers (5a, 5b, 5c) are each provided with a roller outer circumference section (10), a rolling bearing (9), an annular rubber (11), and an inner cylinder (12). The configuration eliminates the need for a conventional spring or a conventional damper mechanism because the rubber (11) deforms elastically.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Nippon Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Hideki Arai, Takami Koyama, Tsuyoshi Sekine, Hideki Nakano, Kota Ojima
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Patent number: 9359178Abstract: A detector for an electromagnetic brake, for example used in an elevator system, that, by quantitative judgment, determines whether the brake force of the electromagnetic brake is appropriate. Load cells for detecting the recovery forces of brake springs are arranged between brake springs, which energize brake arms with brake shooes installed on them toward the side of brake wheel, and spring sheets, which hold brake springs in a compressive deformed state, and, at the same time, judgment part judges whether the brake force of electromagnetic brake 4 is outside a prescribed normal range based on the outputs of load cells. If the brake force of electromagnetic brake is outside the normal range, judgment part sends a signal, for example to a monitoring center.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Hideki Arai, Yasunobu Uchino
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Publication number: 20150268815Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a stereoscopic pointer. Position information designates a position of the stereoscopic pointer, including the depth direction of the stereoscopic pointer. Horizontal pointer position signals are generated based on the position information. The horizontal position of the pointer is set in left and right channels to a horizontal position shifted so as to correspond to a parallax of the position of the stereoscopic pointer in the depth direction. The stereoscopic pointer is displayed based on the horizontal pointer position signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki Arai, Nobutane Chiba, Kazuya Saito