Patents by Inventor Kentaro Takahashi

Kentaro Takahashi 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: 20150243757
    Abstract: A bi-directional electrostatic discharge diode structure consumes substantially less silicon real estate and provides ultra-low capacitance by utilizing a p? epitaxial layer that touches and lies between an n+ lower epitaxial layer and an n+ upper epitaxial layer. A metal contact touches and lies over a p+ layer, which touches and lies over the n+ upper epitaxial layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tani, Akihiko Yamashita, Motoaki Kusamaki, Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9059324
    Abstract: A bi-directional electrostatic discharge diode structure consumes substantially less silicon real estate and provides ultra-low capacitance by utilizing a p? epitaxial layer that touches and lies between an n+ lower epitaxial layer and an n+ upper epitaxial layer. A metal contact touches and lies over a p+ layer, which touches and lies over the n+ upper epitaxial layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tani, Akihiko Yamashita, Motoaki Kusamaki, Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8999589
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material has an average particle diameter of 4.5 to 15.5 ?m and a specific surface area of 0.13 to 0.80 m2/g. A positive electrode mixture layer contains a silane coupling agent and/or at least one of aluminum, titanium, or zirconium based coupling agent having an alkyl or alkoxy groups having 1 to 18 carbon atoms at a content of 0.003% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less with respect to the mass of the positive electrode active material. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a fluorinated cyclic carbonate esters at a content of 0.3% by mass or more with respect to the total mass of the nonaqueous electrolyte. Thus the nonaqueous secondary battery in which, when used with a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a fluorinated cyclic carbonate esters, cycle characteristics are good and nail penetration characteristics are superior is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150047808
    Abstract: A heat exchanger mounting structure is provided with a bracket, a load supporting section, a fitting member, and a contact section. The bracket is provided to one of a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger. The load supporting section is provided to the other heat exchanger to which the bracket is not provided, and supports a load transmitted from the one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. The fitting member is provided to the one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, to which the bracket is provided, and is fitted over the load supporting section. The contact section is in contact with at least a part of the upper portion of the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kentaro Takahashi, Satoshi Sumiya, Shinichi Oda
  • Publication number: 20150015572
    Abstract: To retrieve a desired image from plural types of successive images arranged based on various physical quantities, a cuboid object that is an assembly of multiple unit cells is displayed on a display device, a successive image group is arranged according to the physical quantities of the three axes of the cuboid object that are respectively the body-axis direction position, the first time phase intervals, and the second time phase intervals narrower than the first time phase intervals, and the respective images included in the successive image group and the respective unit cells are associated on one-to-one basis and stored in a main memory. When a three-dimensional position in the cuboid object is input by a mouse operation etc., the CPU retrieves one or multiple images associated with one or multiple unit cells determined according to the input three-dimensional position from the main memory and displays the images in an image display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirohisa Izumo, Kentaro Takahashi, Takayuki Kadomura
  • Publication number: 20150001672
    Abstract: A bi-directional electrostatic discharge diode structure consumes substantially less silicon real estate and provides ultra-low capacitance by utilizing a p? epitaxial layer that touches and lies between an n+ lower epitaxial layer and an n+ upper epitaxial layer. A metal contact touches and lies over a p+ layer, which touches and lies over the n+ upper epitaxial layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tani, Akihiko Yamashita, Motoaki Kusamaki, Kentaro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140326434
    Abstract: A mounting bracket for a heat exchanger. The mounting bracket includes a heat exchanger engagement portion and a mounting portion. The heat exchanger engagement portion includes a retention member. The mounting portion extends from the heat exchanger engagement portion and is configured for fixedly mounting the mounting bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Parker Farlow, Joshua Guerra, Sang Bae Park, Kazuo Tsuchihashi, Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8822076
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery and a positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery are provided. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material and a coupling agent represented by a general formula (1). The positive electrode active material includes lithium transition metal oxide particles. At least one rare-earth compound selected from the rare-earth compound group consisting of specific rare-earth hydroxides and specific rare-earth oxyhydroxides is fixed on the surfaces of the lithium transition metal oxide particles in a dispersed form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogasawara, Kentaro Takahashi, Naoki Imachi
  • Publication number: 20140163854
    Abstract: An electronic control unit of a drive assist apparatus acquires electric power source identification information for identifying a source of an electric power currently charged in a battery and electric power amount information representing an electric power amount corresponding to the source from an electric power acquisition unit, thereby recognizing a battery remaining amount SOCrg representing a green electric power, a battery remaining amount SOCj representing a privately generated green electric power, and a battery remaining amount SOCrs representing a non-green electric power. The unit presents travelable ranges each formed by connecting a group of maximum reachable points to which a PHV can reach by using each of a battery total remaining amount SOCr and the battery remaining amounts SOCrg, SOCj, and SOCrs to a user (driver) by using an information presentation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Matsumoto, Kentaro Takahashi, Masato Endo
  • Publication number: 20140148483
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for predicting the effectiveness of an angiogenesis inhibitor in a subject suffering from a tumor. Provided is a method comprising a step of testing for the presence or absence of an a mutation or loss of expression of B-Raf and PTEN in a sample of tumor tissue from the subject. By using the presence or absence of or a mutation or loss of expression of B-Raf and PTEN as an indicator, this method enables the antitumor effectiveness of the angiogenesis inhibitor to be predicted without administering the angiogenesis inhibitor to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: EISAI R&D MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Semba, Yusuke Narita, Yukinori Minoshima, Atsumi Yamaguchi, Yusuke Adachi, Kazuhiko Yamada, Junji Matsui, Tadashi Kadowaki, Kentaro Takahashi, Yasuhiro Funahashi
  • Patent number: 8709665
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte of nonaqueous secondary battery contains a nitrile group-containing compound at a concentration of 0.05% by mass or more. A positive electrode active material has an average particle diameter of 4.5 to 15.5 ?m and a specific surface area of 0.13 to 0.80 m2/g. A positive electrode binder layer contains a silane coupling agent and/or at least one of aluminum, titanium, or zirconium based coupling agent having an alkyl or an alkoxy groups having 1 to 18 carbon atoms at a content of 0.003% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less. Thus nonaqueous secondary battery having a film resistance of the interface between a positive electrode and the electrolyte being less increased, and excellent ion conductivity and charge load characteristics in a low temperature environment is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8679676
    Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery which has excellent high-temperature cycle characteristics, while maintaining the shutdown response speed of the separator and the overcharge characteristics after many repeated cycles at high temperatures. The battery uses a non-aqueous electrolyte containing a carboxylic acid ester and a nitrile compound, and a separator having a porosity of 28 to 54% and an air permeability of 86 to 450 secs/dl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140075244
    Abstract: A management apparatus, based on received error information of applications and information of applications installed in a terminal being managed by the management apparatus, determines a condition that an application causes the error, send information indicating that the application satisfies the condition for causing the error to an terminal satisfying the error condition out of a plurality of terminals. An application execution terminal receives from the management apparatus the information indicating that the condition that the application causes an error is satisfied, and inhibits the execution of the application causing the error by changing a display form of the corresponding application or by displaying a message at the time of the activation of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8664080
    Abstract: A method for forming a vertical electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device includes depositing a multi-layer n-type epitaxial layer on a substrate having p-type surface including first epitaxial depositing to form a first n-type epitaxial layer on the p-type surface, and second epitaxial depositing to form a second n-type epitaxial layer formed on the first n-type epitaxial layer. The first type epitaxial layer has a peak doping level which is at least double that of the second n-type epitaxial layer. A p+ layer is formed on the second n-type epitaxial layer. An etch step etches through the p+ layer and multi-layer n-type epitaxial layer to reach the substrate to form a trench. The trench is filled with a filler material to form a trench isolation region. A metal contact is formed on the p+ layer for providing contact to the p+ layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Kentaro Takahashi, Lily Springer
  • Patent number: 8632916
    Abstract: The lithium ion polymer battery includes a positive electrode plate formed with a positive electrode mixture layer having a lithium composite oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and a gel nonaqueous electrolyte, the positive electrode active material having an average particle diameter of 4.5 to 15.5 ?m and a specific surface area of 0.13 to 0.80 m2/g, the positive electrode mixture layer containing at least one of aluminum, titanium, or zirconium based coupling agent having an alkyl or an alkoxy groups having 1 to 18 carbon atoms at a content of 0.01% or more and 5% or less by mass with respect to the mass of the positive electrode active material, and the gel nonaqueous electrolyte being formed from a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a monomer having a (meth)acrylic end group. Thus improved nail penetration characteristics and superior cycle characteristics are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Takahashi, Shinya Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8563179
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material has an average particle diameter of 4.5 to 15.5 ?m and a specific surface area of 0.13 to 0.80 m2/g. A positive electrode mixture layer contains at least one of a silane coupling agent and/or at least one of aluminum, titanium, or zirconium based coupling agent having an alkyl or an alkoxy groups having 1 to 18 carbon atoms at a content of 0.003% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less with respect to the mass of the positive electrode active material. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a 1,3-dioxane derivative at a content of 0.05% by mass or more with respect to the total mass of the nonaqueous electrolyte. Thus a nonaqueous secondary battery that has good high-temperature cycle characteristics and suppresses an increase in self-discharge after repetition of charge and discharge cycles at high temperature is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8498449
    Abstract: An eye part detecting device has an image input section (21) for acquiring a face image, an eyelid edge labeling section (24) for detecting upper eyelid candidates and lower eyelid candidates which satisfy predetermined conditions for upper eyelids or lower eyelids in the face image, and an eyelid determination section (27) for comparing combinations of the upper and lower eyelid candidates to determine the combination of the upper and lower eyelid candidates whose relation best satisfies a predetermined condition as the upper and lower eyelids. The eyelid edge labeling section (24) classifies the horizontal edges and vertical edges calculated by an edge calculating section (23) into the upper eyelid candidates and the lower eyelid candidates according to a degree of how well the predetermined conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoharu Suzuki, Takashi Hiramaki, Kenichi Ohue, Kentaro Takahashi, Satoru Nakanishi, Shinichi Kojima
  • Patent number: 8435188
    Abstract: An eye opening detection system that includes an imaging mechanism that captures an image of the face of a detected subject, an edge extraction mechanism that extracts the edge of the image captured, and an upper and lower eyelid detection mechanism that detects the upper and lower eyelids of the detected subject according to the edge extracted, and that detects the eye opening of the detected subject with reference to a detected distance between the upper and lower eyelids. The upper and lower eyelid detection detects the upper eyelid and detects the lower eyelid with reference to the upper eyelid detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Ohue, Yuji Ninagawa, Kentaro Takahashi, Shin-ichi Kojima, Jun Adachi, Tomoharu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130017137
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a lanthanum hexaboride sintered body which contains lanthanum hexaboride as the main component, has an element nitrogen content of 0.1 to 3 mass % inclusive, contains an impurity composed of element carbon and/or at least two elements selected from La, C, O and B at a content of 0.3 vol % or less, and has a relative density of 88% or more; and a target comprising the lanthanum hexaboride sintered body. An LaB6 sintered body can be provided, which enables the production of a highly pure and dense LaB6 thin film having excellent crystallinity and a good work function and which is suitable for a sputtering target or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Takahashi, Kazuto Andou
  • Publication number: 20130017439
    Abstract: A nonaqueous secondary battery contains di(2-propynyl) oxalate in a proportion of not less than 0.05% and not more than 3% by mass relative to the total mass of the nonaqueous electrolyte, and causing the positive electrode mixture layer to contain a silane coupling agent, or one or more coupling agents expressed by Formula (I) below, in a proportion of not less than 0.003% and not more than 3% by mass relative to the mass of the positive electrode active material: M[CO(R1)-CH?CO(R2)]n ??(I) where M is one item selected from Al, Ti and Zr, each of R1 and R2 is an alkyl group or alkoxy group with 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and n is an integer from 1 to 4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi