Patents by Inventor Hideki Kato

Hideki Kato 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: 20180008124
    Abstract: An endoscope power supply system includes an endoscope including an imaging unit that images an object, a housing apparatus to which the endoscope is detachably connected, a plurality of power source units that are provided in the housing apparatus and configured to output electric power different from one another, switches each provided in an output stage of each of the power source units of the housing apparatus and formed of two FETs that are back-to-back connected, and a controller that is provided in the housing apparatus, selects a power source unit necessary to operate the endoscope from the power source units, and controls the switches to output electric power generated by the selected power source unit to the endoscope
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehide FUJIMOTO, Nanako UBAYAMA, Hitoshi KOMINE, Yutaka FUJISAWA, Hideki KATO, Sadaaki TOMURA
  • Patent number: 9855932
    Abstract: A parking and stopping control system includes a park maintaining device configured to maintain a parked state; a park maintaining control device configured to control the park maintaining device to maintain the parked state; a parking temporary determining device capable of making a temporary determination that there is a possibility an own vehicle will be parked; and an intention determining device configured to determine an intention of a driver, wherein when the temporary determination is made, the park maintaining control device controls the park maintaining device to execute a maintaining control of the parked state if an intention of the driver is an intention to park, and the park maintaining control device prohibits the maintaining control of the parked state if the intention of the driver is not the intention to park.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9764717
    Abstract: A slope-descending speed control device 10 for a vehicle configured to control a vehicle deceleration so that an actual vehicle speed conforms to a target vehicle speed in accordance with a target deceleration Gxbt of a PID feedback control executed in accordance with a difference between a target vehicle speed Vxt and an actual vehicle speed Vx. In a situation where an actual vehicle speed is higher than a target vehicle speed, with a component in a hill-descending direction of gravitational acceleration of the vehicle at a time point when a condition for starting a slope-descending speed control is satisfied being a reference gravitational acceleration Gxd0, when a difference between a component Gxd in a hill-descending direction of gravitational acceleration and the reference gravitational acceleration Gxd0 is between upper and lower reference values, a target deceleration Gxbti of the integral term is not integrated to restrain its increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taisuke Yasutomi, Takemi Murayama, Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9661284
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that images a subject to generate a plurality of pieces of image data having information corresponding to different types of color components at same pixel positions, an operation mode setting unit that sets an operation mode of the imaging unit, a thinning rate setting unit that sets a thinning rate relative to each of the plurality of pieces of image data of the different types of color components in accordance with the operation mode, a thinning processor that performs thinning processing relative to each of the plurality of pieces of image data of the different types of color components generated by the imaging unit in accordance with the thinning rate, and a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of pieces of image data of different types of color components subjected to the thinning processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyosuke Mizuno, Hitoshi Komine, Yutaka Fujisawa, Takehide Fujimoto, Hideki Kato, Sadaaki Tomura, Nanako Ubayama
  • Patent number: 9628737
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device in which a first substrate and a second substrate having circuit elements, which constitute pixels, arranged thereon are electrically connected to each other. Each pixel includes: a photoelectric conversion unit disposed on the first substrate that outputs a signal based on incident light; a sampling transistor disposed on the second substrate that includes a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal, that samples and holds the signal input from the photoelectric conversion unit to a first terminal, and outputs the sampled and held signal from a second terminal; a capacitor disposed on the second substrate that stores the signal output from the second terminal; and a potential fixing circuit that fixes a potential of the first terminal to a potential based on a predetermined fixed potential during a readout period in which the signal stored in the capacitor is read out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9494300
    Abstract: An illuminating apparatus includes a light source and an optical member that is disposed in front of the light source and controls light distribution of light emitted from the light source. The optical member has a pair of principal surfaces, and a plurality of prisms extending in one direction are provided on at least one among the pair of principal surfaces. The plurality of prisms include a plurality of reflecting prisms that are provided in a first region A among two regions divided at a virtual plane including a reference axis and emit light entered upon reflecting it at a reflecting surface and a plurality of refracting prisms that are provided in a second region among the two regions and emit light entered upon refracting it at a refracting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Takayama, Hideki Kato
  • Publication number: 20160330415
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that images a subject to generate a plurality of pieces of image data having information corresponding to different types of color components at same pixel positions, an operation mode setting unit that sets an operation mode of the imaging unit, a thinning rate setting unit that sets a thinning rate relative to each of the plurality of pieces of image data of the different types of color components in accordance with the operation mode, a thinning processor that performs thinning processing relative to each of the plurality of pieces of image data of the different types of color components generated by the imaging unit in accordance with the thinning rate, and a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of pieces of image data of different types of color components subjected to the thinning processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyosuke MIZUNO, Hitoshi KOMINE, Yutaka FUJISAWA, Takehide FUJIMOTO, Hideki KATO, Sadaaki TOMURA, Nanako UBAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160200297
    Abstract: A slope-descending speed control device 10 for a vehicle configured to control a vehicle deceleration so that an actual vehicle speed conforms to a target vehicle speed in accordance with a target deceleration Gxbt of a PID feedback control executed in accordance with a difference between a target vehicle speed Vxt and an actual vehicle speed Vx. In a situation where an actual vehicle speed is higher than a target vehicle speed, with a component in a hill-descending direction of gravitational acceleration of the vehicle at a time point when a condition for starting a slope-descending speed control is satisfied being a reference gravitational acceleration Gxd0, when a difference between a component Gxd in a hill-descending direction of gravitational acceleration and the reference gravitational acceleration Gxd0 is between upper and lower reference values, a target deceleration Gxbti of the integral term is not integrated to restrain its increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taisuke YASUTOMI, Takemi MURAYAMA, Hideki KATO
  • Patent number: 9376119
    Abstract: A vehicle-center-of-gravity condition determining apparatus includes: a rear wheel brake pressure change unit; a front wheel brake pressure detector; a rear wheel brake pressure detector; a rear wheel axle load estimating unit configured to estimate a rear wheel axle load based on a relationship between front and rear brake pressures detected during braking and a rear wheel axle load property of the rear wheel brake pressure change unit; and a vehicle-center-of-gravity condition determiner configured to determine a center of gravity condition of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction based on the estimated rear wheel axle load. The rear wheel axle load estimating unit is configured to estimate each of the rear wheel axle loads in a case where braking is performed in a state of at least two of during straight running, during right turning, and during left turning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kozuka, Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9345243
    Abstract: A chemical composition for reducing stress on a plant comprising: at least one substance (A) selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by Formula (I) and the like and a salt thereof; and a substance (B) which affects a physiological function of the plant [in Formula (I), R1 to R4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, —SO3H, —PO3H2, glycosyl group or —COR11. R11 represents an unsubstituted or substituted C1 to C30 alkyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted C2 to C30 alkenyl group.].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd., Shizuoka Prefecture
    Inventors: Chizuko Kageyama, Hiroyuki Iyozumi, Hideki Nukui, Kimihiko Kato, Junya Mannen, Kazuyuki Tomida, Shinsuke Sano, Hideki Kato, Satoru Makita, Toshio Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20160134824
    Abstract: This solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which have circuit elements constituting pixels disposed therein are electrically connected to each other. The pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion element disposed in the first substrate; an amplifier circuit that amplifies a signal generated in the photoelectric conversion element to output the amplified signal; a signal accumulation circuit which is disposed in the second substrate and accumulates the amplified signal which is output from the amplifier circuit; and an output circuit that outputs the amplified signal accumulated in the signal accumulation circuit from the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Gomi, Hideki Kato, Naofumi Sakaguchi, Naoto Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 9332661
    Abstract: A printer includes a body case and an interface connector unit that is movable between a hidden position where the interface connector unit is hidden by the body case and an exposed position where the interface connector unit is exposed from the body case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shoma Kudo, Shigeto Omatsu, Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9292241
    Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus where printing is possible by easily and rapidly acquiring a desired image, a multi-functional tablet device is provided with an imaging section which acquires an image, a display section which displays the image, an designating section for designating using a fingertip with regard to the displayed image, a printing section which prints an imaging image on a medium, and a control section which creates the imaging image, which is based on the image, based on designation from the designating section and which prints the created imaging image in the printing section, where the control section determines the printing range with regard to the image which is captured by the imaging section based on the designation from the designating section, creates the imaging image by editing the image in the printing range, and determines a printing position where the imaging image is printed on the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakai, Koichi Otsuki, Hideki Kato, Shinya Momose
  • Publication number: 20160044265
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device in which a first substrate and a second substrate having circuit elements, which constitute pixels, arranged thereon are electrically connected to each other. Each pixel includes: a photoelectric conversion unit disposed on the first substrate that outputs a signal based on incident light; a sampling transistor disposed on the second substrate that includes a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal, that samples and holds the signal input from the photoelectric conversion unit to a first terminal, and outputs the sampled and held signal from a second terminal; a capacitor disposed on the second substrate that stores the signal output from the second terminal; and a potential fixing circuit that fixes a potential of the first terminal to a potential based on a predetermined fixed potential during a readout period in which the signal stored in the capacitor is read out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9257468
    Abstract: This solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which have circuit elements constituting pixels disposed therein are electrically connected to each other. The pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion element disposed in the first substrate; an amplifier circuit that amplifies a signal generated in the photoelectric conversion element to output the amplified signal; a signal accumulation circuit which is disposed in the second substrate and accumulates the amplified signal which is output from the amplifier circuit; and an output circuit that outputs the amplified signal accumulated in the signal accumulation circuit from the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Gomi, Hideki Kato, Naofumi Sakaguchi, Naoto Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20150367857
    Abstract: A vehicle-center-of-gravity condition determining apparatus includes: a rear wheel brake pressure change unit; a front wheel brake pressure detector; a rear wheel brake pressure detector; a rear wheel axle load estimating unit configured to estimate a rear wheel axle load based on a relationship between front and rear brake pressures detected during braking and a rear wheel axle load property of the rear wheel brake pressure change unit; and a vehicle-center-of-gravity condition determiner configured to determine a center of gravity condition of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction based on the estimated rear wheel axle load. The rear wheel axle load estimating unit is configured to estimate each of the rear wheel axle loads in a case where braking is performed in a state of at least two of during straight running, during right turning, and during left turning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KOZUKA, Hideki KATO
  • Patent number: 9216740
    Abstract: An electronic control unit is provided with a braking device formed of a brake pedal which exerts braking force on a vehicle, a brake actuator, braking units and the like, a vehicle speed change rate setting device which sets a target vehicle speed change rate, and a vehicle speed control device which performs vehicle speed control to realize the target vehicle speed change rate by predetermined operation to the braking device performed by a driver. The vehicle speed change rate setting device sets a target vehicle speed change rate to accelerate the vehicle when the predetermined operation is performed while the vehicle stops, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9205772
    Abstract: A moving carriage that moves an overhead travelling vehicle that has been unloaded to the ground, includes a frame including travelling wheels, elevating mechanisms provided at a plurality of locations on the frame along a longitudinal direction of the frame, a track for an overhead travelling vehicle, the track being supported by the elevating mechanisms so as to be lifted and lowered and being configured to allow the overhead travelling vehicle to be transferred to and from another track, and a synchronizing mechanism that synchronizes the elevating mechanisms to lift and lower the track by the same or substantially the same amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Kato, Tatsuo Tsubaki
  • Publication number: 20150203749
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide: an alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor to which Eu is added as an activator, and which has an emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more, high luminance and excellent color rendering properties; and a method for producing the alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor. An alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor of the present invention is represented by composition formula (1) and having an emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more and a circularity of 85% or more. Composition formula (1): (SraCabBacEud)2SieOf (in the formula, a, b, c, d, e and f satisfy 0.4<a<0.6, 0.4<b<0.6, 0.01<c<0.05, 0.01?d<0.4, 0.7?e?1.3, 3.0?f?5.0 and a+b+c+d=1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsufumi Komukai, Jun Yokoyama, Masato Kakihana, Satoko Tezuka, Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: D764573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruki Sugawara, Yasutomo Takahashi, Hideki Kato, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki