Patents by Inventor Akihiro Ogawa

Akihiro Ogawa 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: 11610477
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device includes a data collecting device that collects sensor data from a vehicle sensor, a data transmitting device that transmits the sensor data to a server, a data receiving device that receives data about an outside-vehicle status, and an inside-vehicle/outside-vehicle cooperation device that, in response to receipt of the data about the outside-vehicle status, cooperates with a device outside the vehicle and controls an operation inside the vehicle. The server includes a map creating device that maintains a traffic status overview map on the basis of received sensor data, a vehicle selecting device that selects a vehicle capable of transmitting optimum sensor data for maintaining the traffic status overview map in view of a line status among vehicle-mounted devices present within a specific area, and a transmission permission/prohibition signal transmitting device that transmits an instruction of permitting transmission of sensor data to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Katsunori Ushida, Koichi Takayama
  • Publication number: 20230058005
    Abstract: A performance of a display apparatus is improved. A display apparatus has a display region, a transparent region and a frame region. The display apparatus includes a plurality of scan signal lines extending in an X direction in the display region and a plurality of image signal lines extending in a Y direction in the display region. The plurality of image signal lines include a first wiring (image signal line) and a second wiring (image signal line). The first wiring includes a first bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a first extension wiring portion connected to an end of the first bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. The second wiring includes a second bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a second extension wiring portion connected to an end of the second bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. In a plan view, the first wiring and the second wiring intersect with each other at the frame region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen KOIDE, Akihiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230048119
    Abstract: To provide an inkjet printing apparatus capable of continuing printing even during speed change of web paper WP, a transport controller of this invention controls drive rollers, and to make constant at each point of time during the speed change of the drive rollers, a speed difference which is a difference between a first speed which is a transporting speed of web paper when the upstream nozzle dispenses an ink droplet and a second speed which is a transporting speed of web paper when a downstream nozzle dispenses an ink droplet. In this way, a constant relationship is realized, at each point of time during the speed change of drive rollers, between a landing position on the web paper of the ink droplet relating to the upstream nozzle and a landing position on the web paper of the ink droplet relating to the downstream nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoyasu OKUSHIMA, Tomonori YASUDA, Akihiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230025876
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an organic insulating layer, a light reflecting layer, a light emitting element, a sealing layer having an inclined surface having a lower end and an upper end, and a coating layer. An interface between the inclined surface and the coating layer is configured to reflect light traveling through the sealing layer toward the light reflecting layer. The lower end is located below a middle of the light emitting element in a height direction of the light emitting element. The upper end is located above the middle of the light emitting element in the height direction of the light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11562708
    Abstract: A performance of a display apparatus is improved. A display apparatus has a display region, a transparent region and a frame region. The display apparatus includes a plurality of scan signal lines extending in an X direction in the display region and a plurality of image signal lines extending in a Y direction in the display region. The plurality of image signal lines include a first wiring (image signal line) and a second wiring (image signal line). The first wiring includes a first bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a first extension wiring portion connected to an end of the first bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. The second wiring includes a second bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a second extension wiring portion connected to an end of the second bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. In a plan view, the first wiring and the second wiring intersect with each other at the frame region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Koide, Akihiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11545076
    Abstract: According to one embodiment a display device includes first and second sub-pixels, first and second power lines, and a reset line. The first sub-pixel includes a first light emitting element and a first pixel circuit. The second sub-pixel includes a second light emitting element and a second pixel circuit. The first power line supplies power to the first pixel circuit. The second power line supplies power to the second pixel circuit. Reset signal is supplied to the reset line. The reset line and the power lines are arranged in a display region. The reset line is connected to both the pixel circuits. A width of the first power line is larger than a width of the second power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Akihiro Ogawa, Masanobu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11538959
    Abstract: A method for repairing a display device, the display device including a plurality of inorganic light emitting elements arranged in a matrix and an insulator arranged around the plurality of inorganic light emitting elements, the method comprising steps of: detecting a defective inorganic light emitting element as the inorganic light emitting element having a defect; removing the insulator around the defective inorganic light emitting element while the defective inorganic light emitting element remains without being removed by irradiating the insulator around the defective inorganic light emitting element with irradiation light; and removing the defective inorganic light emitting element after the insulator therearound has been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220406760
    Abstract: A display device includes a circuit substrate including a first pixel and a second pixel, a first LED chip overlapping a first anode pad and a first cathode pad in the first pixel, and a second LED chip overlapping a second anode pad and a second cathode pad in the second pixel. The first pixel includes a first light transmission region overlapping the first LED chip, and is between the first anode pad and the first cathode pad. The second pixel includes a second light transmission region overlapping the second LED chip, and is between the second anode pad and the second cathode pad. In a plan view of the circuit substrate, a first area (S1) of the first light transmission region and a second area (S2) of the second light transmission region have a first ratio that is represented by S1:S2=1:0.8 to 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11480842
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a substrate includes an insulating base material, a pixel electrode provided on one surface side of the base material, a common electrode provided between the base material and the pixel electrode. All sides on an outer periphery of the common electrode are located inside the pixel electrode in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayashi, Akihiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11456329
    Abstract: A display device, includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate; and a plurality of light emitting elements provided in each of the pixels. A first distance between a top surface of the substrate and one of the light emitting elements in a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate, in a center portion of a display region of the substrate, is different from a second distance between the top surface of the substrate and another one of the light emitting elements in the direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate, in a periphery portion of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu Ikeda, Yoshinori Aoki, Akihiro Ogawa, Yasuhiro Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20220293579
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first light-emitting diode (LED) element and a second LED element provided to the substrate and configured to output light, a first signal line provided between the first LED element and the second LED element and electrically coupled to the first LED element, a second signal line provided between the first LED element and the second LED element and electrically coupled to the second LED element, gate wiring intersecting the first signal line and the second signal line, and anode wiring overlapping the gate wiring and electrically coupled to the first LED element and the second LED element. The anode wiring extends parallel to the gate wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro OGAWA, Masanobu IKEDA, Yasuhiro KANAYA, Yoshinori AOKI
  • Patent number: 11444939
    Abstract: An authentication control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire predetermined identification information regarding an on-vehicle device to be newly added to an on-vehicle network; and a determination unit configured to determine which of a plurality of types of authentication procedures is to be applied as an authentication process for the on-vehicle device, on the basis of the identification information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Hirofumi Urayama, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20220285332
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes pixels each including transistors, pixel electrodes, a contact electrode, and light emitting elements, and an insulating basement, a first organic insulating layer, a second organic insulating layer, a resin layer, a common electrode, and first wiring lines. The common electrode is electrically connected to cathodes of the light emitting elements, and electrically connected to the contact electrodes of the pixels. The first wiring lines, each provided between the first organic insulating layer and the second organic insulating layer or between the second organic insulating layer and the resin layer, are electrically connected to the contact electrodes of the pixels, and are formed of a metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinori AOKI, Yasuhiro KANAYA, Masanobu IKEDA, Akihiro OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11437428
    Abstract: A display device comprises: a substrate; a plurality of pixels provided to the substrate; and a plurality of light emitting elements provided to the respective pixels. The light emitting elements include a plurality of first light emitting elements, a plurality of second light emitting elements, and a plurality of third light emitting elements, the first light emitting elements are arrayed on the substrate in a first direction and a second direction, the third light emitting element has a part not overlapping the first light emitting element or the second light emitting element when one of the pixels is viewed in the first direction, and the third light emitting element has a part not overlapping the first light emitting element or the second light emitting element when one of the pixels is viewed in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu Ikeda, Yoshinori Aoki, Akihiro Ogawa, Yasuhiro Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11416237
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a switching unit configured to switch a state of a first and a second on-vehicle power supply to a power or a non-power supplying state, an acquisition unit configured to acquire operation information indicating whether the control device is in an operating or non-operating state, and a control unit configured to execute, in a case where a combination of the first and the second power supply is changed from a first to a second pattern, start-up control to determine a state in the second pattern, of an on-vehicle control device suppliable with power from the first power supply, based on the operation information in the first pattern. The first pattern is the first power supply in the power supplying state and the second power supply in the non-power supplying state. The second pattern in the first and second power supplies are in the power supplying state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Tatsuya Izumi
  • Publication number: 20220250640
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes: a driving support device to receive driving support information from a driving support server and execute a predetermined process for driving support; a sub driving support server including a driving support server function subset and receives sensor data from an external sensor and output a subset of the driving support information; a first switching device giving the subset of the driving support information to the driving support device in response to interruption of reception of the driving support information from the driving support server; and a second switching device configured to give the driving support information from the driving support server, instead of the subset of the driving support information from the sub driving support server, to the driving support device in response to recovery of the reception of the driving support information from the driving support server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220215784
    Abstract: A method for repairing a display device, the display device comprising: a plurality of inorganic light emitters arrayed in a matrix (row-column configuration); and a counter electrode provided in a traveling direction of light emitted from the inorganic light emitters and coupled to the inorganic light emitters, the method comprising steps of: detecting a defective inorganic light emitter serving as one of the inorganic light emitters and having a defect; and removing a target portion of the counter electrode by irradiating the target portion with light while leaving the defective inorganic light emitter unremoved, the target portion including a portion between a portion coupled to the defective inorganic light emitter and a portion coupled to an inorganic light emitter adjacently disposed with the defective inorganic light emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Akihiro OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11373464
    Abstract: An on-vehicle communication device capable of relaying data between a plurality of function units mounted on a vehicle includes: a log notification acquisition unit configured to receive, from an external device outside the vehicle, a log notification indicating a log target function unit which is the function unit that is a target of log collection, a start condition for log collection, and a trigger function unit which is the function unit capable of determination for the start condition; a notification unit configured to notify the trigger function unit of the start condition indicated by the log notification; and a command unit configured to give a command for log collection to the log target function unit, in response to a notification that the start condition is satisfied from the trigger function unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Hirofumi Urayama, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 11340891
    Abstract: A control device according to this disclosure includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with an on-vehicle control device via an in-vehicle communication line; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit. The control unit executes: an acquisition process of acquiring a first time and a second time described below; and a determination process of determining, based on a result of comparison between the first time and the second time that have been acquired, whether or not rollback to a control program before update is necessary in the on-vehicle control device that is updating the control program. First time: a time from a present time in which the control program is being updated to when the update is completed Second time: a time from the present time to when the rollback to the control program before update is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Hirofumi Urayama, Tatsuya Izumi, Takayuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220157229
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels provided to the substrate, a plurality of first light emitting elements provided to each of the pixels and configured to output visible light, a pixel circuit provided to the substrate and configured to supply a drive signal to each of the first light emitting elements, and a second light emitting element provided to the pixel circuit and configured to output infrared light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro OGAWA, Masanobu IKEDA