Patents by Inventor Hideaki Kawai
Hideaki Kawai 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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Patent number: 12255213Abstract: A highly functional photoelectric conversion element is provided. The photoelectric conversion element includes: a first photoelectric converter that detects light in a first wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light; a second photoelectric converter that detects light in a second wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light to obtain distance information of a subject; and an optical filter that is disposed between the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter, and allows the light in the second wavelength range to pass therethrough more easily than the light in the first wavelength range. The first photoelectric converter includes a stacked structure and an electric charge accumulation electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Hideaki Togashi, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Kawai, Koji Sekiguchi, Masahiro Joei, Kenichi Murata, Shintarou Hirata, Yuta Hasegawa, Yoshito Nagashima
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Publication number: 20250083958Abstract: The present invention is a silicon nitride powder having a ?-conversion rate of 80% or more and having a lattice strain of 1.0×10?3 or more. According to the present invention, there can be provided a silicon nitride powder having high sinterability even at a low temperature of about 1800° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki KAWAI, Ryuji ISHIMOTO
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Patent number: 12237348Abstract: Imaging devices and ranging devices are disclosed. In one example, an imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first pixel array, a second pixel array, and a control unit. In the first pixel array, a first light receiving pixel on the semiconductor substrate has a stacked structure of a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode (80). It photoelectrically converts light in a first wavelength region including the visible light region. In the second pixel array, a second light receiving pixel is provided at a position overlapping the first light receiving pixel in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. It photoelectrically converts light in a second wavelength region including the infrared light region. The control unit drives and controls the second pixel array based on a signal photoelectrically converted by the first pixel array.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Hideaki Togashi, Kaori Takimoto, Masahiro Segami, Kei Nakagawa, Nobuhiro Kawai
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Publication number: 20250028084Abstract: An anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate includes: a transparent substrate comprising two main surfaces; and a diffusion layer and an anti-reflective film in this order from a transparent substrate side on one main surface of the transparent substrate. When reflection on the other main surface of the transparent substrate is eliminated and a light source is incident on the one main surface at an incident angle of 45°, a* and b* of diffusely reflected lights at angles of ?15°, 15°, 25°, 45°, 75°, and 110° with respect to a specularly reflected light under a D65 light source satisfy formulas (1) ?6?a*?2, (2) ?1?b*?12 (3) b*??2a*+4, and (4) b*??2a*?5.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Kazuya TAKEMOTO, Keisuke KAWAI, Teruo FUJIWARA, Hideaki TAKAHOSHI
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Publication number: 20230357010Abstract: The present invention provides a silicon nitride sintered substrate capable of reducing contamination caused by a boron nitride powder or the like used as a releasing agent and problems in bonding strength and dielectric strength at the time of laminating metal layers or the like, where the contamination is caused by a network structure provided by a silicon nitride crystal formed on the surface of the substrate in an unpolished state after sintering a silicon nitride powder. The silicon nitride substrate in an unpolished state after sintering is a silicon nitride sintered substrate where a cumulative volume of pores having a diameter in a range of 1 to 10 ?m is not more than 7.0'10?5 mL/cm2 in a measurement by a mercury porosimetry. Preferably, Ra of the surface is not more than 0.6 ?m and arithmetic mean peak curvature (Spc) of a peak is not more than 4.5 [l/mm].Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATIONInventors: Norihira MITSUMURA, Dai KUSANO, Hideaki KAWAI
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Publication number: 20230140491Abstract: A silicon nitride powder for sintering which, despite of its fine powdery form, shows a very small increase in the oxygen concentration with time and features excellent storage stability. The silicon nitride powder for sintering has a specific surface area of 5 to 30 m2/g, and is characterized by having a hydrophobicity (M value) of 30 or more and an increase in the oxygen concentration of 0.30% by mass or less after left to stand in the air of a humidity of 90% and 20° C. for 48 hours. The silicon nitride powder for sintering can be obtained by dry-pulverizing aggregated masses of the silicon nitride in an inert atmosphere in the presence of a silane coupling agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki KAWAI, Satoru WAKAMATSU
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Patent number: 10710666Abstract: A motorcycle frame includes a head pipe, a pair of front main frames, and a pair of rear main frames. The pair of front main frames separates in a vehicle width direction from the head pipe, extends toward a power engine that is located on a rear side of the head pipe, and includes power-engine fixing parts that are fixed to the power engine at positions that overlap with the power engine as viewed in the vehicle width direction. The pair of rear main frames extends rearward from the power-engine fixing parts of the pair of front main frames.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Makihara, Hideaki Kawai
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Patent number: 10322768Abstract: A motorcycle includes a fuel tank, an engine, an air cleaner box, and an electrical component unit. The fuel tank stores a fuel. The engine is driven by the fuel stored in the fuel tank. The air cleaner box purifies air to be supplied to the engine. The electrical component unit includes two or more types of electrical components driven by electricity. The fuel tank and the engine are arranged vertically one above the other. At least part of the air cleaner box is positioned in a space between the fuel tank and the engine. The longitudinal position of at least part of the electrical component unit is more frontward than the rear end of the fuel tank and more rearward than the air cleaner box.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Morotomi, Hideaki Kawai
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Patent number: 10247083Abstract: A straddle vehicle is capable of discharging high-temperature outdoor air having passed through a radiator with high efficiency. A motorcycle 1 includes a radiator, a fan, and a fan shroud. The radiator lowers the temperature of a coolant by heat exchange between outdoor air and the coolant. The fan suctions outdoor air, to make the outdoor air hit the radiator arranged upstream in an outdoor air flow direction. The fan shroud covers at least part of the fan, and discharges high-temperature outdoor air, which is outdoor air suctioned by the fan and having passed through the radiator, to outside. The fan shroud has a discharge opening and an air guide. The discharge opening allows the high-temperature outdoor air to be discharged outside. The air guide guides the high-temperature outdoor air such that it is discharged through the discharge opening in a direction including a laterally outward component.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Morotomi, Hideaki Kawai, Tetsuji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190077482Abstract: A motorcycle includes a fuel tank, an engine, an air cleaner box, and an electrical component unit. The fuel tank stores a fuel. The engine is driven by the fuel stored in the fuel tank. The air cleaner box purifies air to be supplied to the engine. The electrical component unit includes two or more types of electrical components driven by electricity. The fuel tank and the engine are arranged vertically one above the other. At least part of the air cleaner box is positioned in a space between the fuel tank and the engine. The longitudinal position of at least part of the electrical component unit is more frontward than the rear end of the fuel tank and more rearward than the air cleaner box.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Satoshi MOROTOMI, Hideaki KAWAI
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Publication number: 20190063301Abstract: A straddle vehicle is capable of discharging high-temperature outdoor air having passed through a radiator with high efficiency. A motorcycle 1 includes a radiator, a fan, and a fan shroud. The radiator lowers the temperature of a coolant by heat exchange between outdoor air and the coolant. The fan suctions outdoor air, to make the outdoor air hit the radiator arranged upstream in an outdoor air flow direction. The fan shroud covers at least part of the fan, and discharges high-temperature outdoor air, which is outdoor air suctioned by the fan and having passed through the radiator, to outside. The fan shroud has a discharge opening and an air guide. The discharge opening allows the high-temperature outdoor air to be discharged outside. The air guide guides the high-temperature outdoor air such that it is discharged through the discharge opening in a direction including a laterally outward component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Satoshi Morotomi, Hideaki Kawai, Tetsuji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20180229797Abstract: A motorcycle frame includes a head pipe, a pair of front main frames, and a pair of rear main frames. The pair of front main frames separates in a vehicle width direction from the head pipe, extends toward a power engine that is located on a rear side of the head pipe, and includes power-engine fixing parts that are fixed to the power engine at positions that overlap with the power engine as viewed in the vehicle width direction. The pair of rear main frames extends rearward from the power-engine fixing parts of the pair of front main frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minoru Makihara, Hideaki Kawai
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Patent number: 9694870Abstract: A motorcycle comprises a rear wheel; a vehicle body frame including a front frame unit supporting a motor, and a rear frame unit supporting a seat; and a swing arm which is rotatably connected to the front frame unit and supports the rear wheel, wherein the rear frame unit includes: a front section which supports the seat and extends rearward from the front frame unit; a pair of right and left branch sections extending rearward from a rear end portion of the front section to be spaced apart from each other in a rightward and leftward direction; and a pair of rear sections which extend rearward from rear end portions of the pair of right and left branch sections, respectively, and are placed rightward and leftward relative to the rear wheel.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideaki Kawai, Shigeyuki Iwata
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Patent number: 9598130Abstract: A vehicle comprises a fender unit which covers an upper portion of a wheel from above; and a mounting member placed inward in a vehicle width direction relative to the fender unit and including a mounting section by which an accessory component is detachably mounted to a vehicle body, wherein the fender unit includes: a first cover member which has an opening through which the mounting section of the mounting member is exposed, and covers a portion of the mounting member which is other than the mounting section, from outside in the vehicle width direction; and a second cover member which is detachably mounted to the first cover member and covers the opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideaki Kawai, Shigeyuki Iwata
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Patent number: 9493067Abstract: In a straddle vehicle such as a motorcycle, a harness in an electric power supply system which is thick, has a great weight, and is not easily mounted can be reduced in length as much as possible so that a weight and cost can be reduced, and assembling work can be made easier. An air cleaner and a fuel tank are disposed at a relatively rearward position such that the air cleaner and the fuel tank are disposed behind and distant from the head pipe to provide an electric component mounting space between the air cleaner and the fuel tank, and the head pipe, and a regulator, a relay box and a fuse box are disposed in the electric component mounting space. The fuel tank is disposed at a relatively rearward position such that its rear end portion is positioned behind and below a rear end of a main frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideaki Kawai
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Patent number: 9493207Abstract: A motorcycle comprises a front wheel; a rear wheel; a seat; a vehicle body frame; a swing arm which supports the rear wheel such that the swing arm is vertically pivotable around a location at which the swing arm is connected to a front frame; and a rear suspension which connects the vehicle body frame to the swing arm via a link mechanism, wherein a seat frame includes a pair of rail sections having rear end portions which are placed to be spaced apart from each other on both sides in a vehicle width direction relative to the rear wheel and located above an axle of the rear wheel, and wherein the rear suspension is placed on one side in the vehicle width direction relative to a vehicle body center line extending in a forward and rearward direction and extends in the forward and rearward direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideaki Kawai
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Publication number: 20160096583Abstract: A motorcycle comprises a front wheel; a rear wheel; a seat; a vehicle body frame; a swing arm which supports the rear wheel such that the swing arm is vertically pivotable around a location at which the swing arm is connected to a front frame; and a rear suspension which connects the vehicle body frame to the swing arm via a link mechanism, wherein a seat frame includes a pair of rail sections having rear end portions which are placed to be spaced apart from each other on both sides in a vehicle width direction relative to the rear wheel and located above an axle of the rear wheel, and wherein the rear suspension is placed on one side in the vehicle width direction relative to a vehicle body center line extending in a forward and rearward direction and extends in the forward and rearward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventor: Hideaki Kawai
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Publication number: 20160096572Abstract: A vehicle comprises a fender unit which covers an upper portion of a wheel from above; and a mounting member placed inward in a vehicle width direction relative to the fender unit and including a mounting section by which an accessory component is detachably mounted to a vehicle body, wherein the fender unit includes: a first cover member which has an opening through which the mounting section of the mounting member is exposed, and covers a portion of the mounting member which is other than the mounting section, from outside in the vehicle width direction; and a second cover member which is detachably mounted to the first cover member and covers the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Hideaki Kawai, Shigeyuki Iwata
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Publication number: 20160096582Abstract: A motorcycle comprises a rear wheel; a vehicle body frame including a front frame unit supporting a motor, and a rear frame unit supporting a seat; and a swing arm which is rotatably connected to the front frame unit and supports the rear wheel, wherein the rear frame unit includes: a front section which supports the seat and extends rearward from the front frame unit; a pair of right and left branch sections extending rearward from a rear end portion of the front section to be spaced apart from each other in a rightward and leftward direction; and a pair of rear sections which extend rearward from rear end portions of the pair of right and left branch sections, respectively, and are placed rightward and leftward relative to the rear wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Hideaki Kawai, Shigeyuki Iwata
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Publication number: 20140116794Abstract: In a straddle vehicle such as a motorcycle, a harness in an electric power supply system which is thick, has a great weight, and is not easily mounted can be reduced in length as much as possible so that a weight and cost can be reduced, and assembling work can be made easier. An air cleaner and a fuel tank are disposed at a relatively rearward position such that the air cleaner and the fuel tank are disposed behind and distant from the head pipe to provide an electric component mounting space between the air cleaner and the fuel tank, and the head pipe, and a regulator, a relay box and a fuse box are disposed in the electric component mounting space. The fuel tank is disposed at a relatively rearward position such that its rear end portion is positioned behind and below a rear end of a main frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideaki Kawai