Patents by Inventor Hideki Otsuka
Hideki Otsuka 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: 20240118125Abstract: Provided is a weighing apparatus that enables occurrence of an abnormality to be noticed. A weighing apparatus includes a rectangular weighing base, weighing sensors disposed at four corners of the weighing base, a control unit configured to calculate a weighed value of a to-be-weighed object on the weighing base based on outputs of the weighing sensors, and an abnormality detection means configured to detect occurrence of an abnormality based on output values of the weighing sensors, and detects occurrence of an abnormality by comparing a sum of output values of a pair of weighing sensors disposed on one side of the weighing base among the weighing sensors with a sum of past output values of the pair of weighing sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Hideki OTSUKA, Tsutomu KOWA
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Patent number: 11754709Abstract: An object detection device includes a signal generator configured to generate a drive signal including an identification signal for identifying ultrasonic waves, a transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave as a probe wave in response to the drive signal, a receiver configured to receive the ultrasonic wave to generate a reception signal, and a determiner configured to analyze frequencies of the reception signal to determine whether the received wave is a reflected wave of the probe wave, thereby detecting an object. The drive signal includes a ramp-up signal generated to be followed by the identification signal and is used to ramp up an amplitude of the probe wave. A frequency of the ramp-up signal is set to include a frequency at which a transmission/reception efficiency is higher than a transmission/reception efficiency at each of a maximum frequency of the identification signal and a minimum frequency of the identification signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Koyama, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Satoru Noro, Hideki Otsuka, Tetsuya Aoyama
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Publication number: 20230274881Abstract: A chip electronic component includes spacers that each have a predetermined thickness direction dimension on a mounting surface in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface. The spacers each contain, as a main component, an intermetallic compound containing at least one high-melting-point metal selected from Cu and Ni, and Sn defining a low-melting-point metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Yukihiro FUJITA, Shogo KANBE, Kosuke NAKANO, Hideki OTSUKA
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Patent number: 11688555Abstract: A chip electronic component includes spacers that each have a predetermined thickness direction dimension on a mounting surface in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface. The spacers each contain, as a main component, an intermetallic compound containing at least one high-melting-point metal selected from Cu and Ni, and Sn defining a low-melting-point metal.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro Fujita, Shogo Kanbe, Kosuke Nakano, Hideki Otsuka
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Patent number: 11448009Abstract: A shading device including a first driving shaft that is rotatably supported within a headbox and may drive a first moving member and a second driving shaft that is rotatably supported within the headbox and may drive a second moving member, the shading device includes a first pulley that drives the first driving shaft, and a second pulley that is disposed at a position different from the first pulley in a longitudinal direction of the headbox and drives the second driving shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Nichibei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Otsuka, Masaki Nakajima
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Patent number: 11410274Abstract: An information processing device includes an image acquisition unit and an image processing unit. The image processing unit generates a composite image including at least two display images as images based on the one or more acquired images acquired by the image acquisition unit and a boundary image displayed at least in a region between the at least two display images. The image processing unit sets a display mode of the boundary image according to predetermined feature amounts of the at least two display images included in the composite image.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Goto, Hideki Otsuka
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Patent number: 11170937Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a laminate including external electrodes connected to a pair of metal terminals through a bonding material. Each of the pair of metal terminals includes a terminal body, an extension portion, and a mounting portion. The terminal body includes side-surface ribs, opposed to the side surfaces of the electronic component body. The bonding material is provided between the side-surface ribs and the external electrode opposed to the side-surface rib and is not provided between the terminal body and the end surface center portion of the external electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shogo Kanbe, Masahiro Andatsu, Kosuke Nakano, Hideki Otsuka
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Publication number: 20210311189Abstract: An object detecting apparatus is configured to detect a surrounding object. The object detecting apparatus is provided with a driving signal generation unit provided to generate a driving signal that drives a transmitter unit including a transmitter emitting transmission waves externally; and a control unit provided to control an output of the driving signal transmitted to the transmitter unit from the driving signal generation unit. The driving signal generation unit is configured to generate the driving signal of which the frequency changes stepwise.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Yohei SUZUKI, Yu KOYAMA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Satoru NORO, Tetsuya AOYAMA, Hideki OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20210311190Abstract: In an object detection device, a signal generation unit generates a drive signal, a transmission unit transmits an ultrasonic wave as a search wave in response to the input drive signal, and a reception unit receives an ultrasonic wave to generate a received signal. A judging unit performs object detection determination based on the received signal. The drive signal has at least two frequencies, and the judging unit extracts at least two amplitudes corresponding to the at least two frequencies from the received signal, and performs determination based on a relationship between the at least two amplitudes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Yu KOYAMA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Hideki OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20210287335Abstract: An information processing device includes an image acquisition unit and an image processing unit. The image processing unit generates a composite image including at least two display images as images based on the one or more acquired images acquired by the image acquisition unit and a boundary image displayed at least in a region between the at least two display images. The image processing unit sets a display mode of the boundary image according to predetermined feature amounts of the at least two display images included in the composite image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Hiroaki GOTO, Hideki OTSUKA
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Patent number: 11105895Abstract: A sensor unit including an object detection sensor and an inclination sensor is mounted to a vehicle, and axial misalignment of the object detection sensor is determined as follows. A first inclination angle acquiring step of disposing the sensor unit, so that a first predetermined direction is aligned with a second predetermined direction before the sensor unit is mounted to the vehicle, and acquiring a first inclination angle detected by the inclination sensor from the inclination sensor, is performed. Then, a second inclination angle acquiring step of mounting the sensor unit on the vehicle and acquiring a second inclination angle detected by the inclination sensor from the inclination sensor, is performed. Finally, an axial misalignment determining step of determining whether axial misalignment has occurred at the object detection sensor, based on the first inclination angle and the second inclination angle, is performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Noro, Hiroyuki Kani, Hideki Otsuka, Mitsuyasu Matsuura
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Publication number: 20210230939Abstract: A shading device including a first driving shaft that is rotatably supported within a headbox and may drive a first moving member and a second driving shaft that is rotatably supported within the headbox and may drive a second moving member, the shading device includes a first pulley that drives the first driving shaft, and a second pulley that is disposed at a position different from the first pulley in a longitudinal direction of the headbox and drives the second driving shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Hideki OTSUKA, Masaki NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20210223394Abstract: An object detection device includes a signal generator configured to generate a drive signal including an identification signal for identifying ultrasonic waves, a transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave as a probe wave in response to the drive signal, a receiver configured to receive the ultrasonic wave to generate a reception signal, and a determiner configured to analyze frequencies of the reception signal to determine whether the received wave is a reflected wave of the probe wave, thereby detecting an object. The drive signal includes a ramp-up signal generated to be followed by the identification signal and is used to ramp up an amplitude of the probe wave. A frequency of the ramp-up signal is set to include a frequency at which a transmission/reception efficiency is higher than a transmission/reception efficiency at each of a maximum frequency of the identification signal and a minimum frequency of the identification signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu KOYAMA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Satoru NORO, Hideki OTSUKA, Tetsuya AOYAMA
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Publication number: 20210118614Abstract: A chip electronic component includes spacers that each have a predetermined thickness direction dimension on a mounting surface in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface. The spacers each contain, as a main component, an intermetallic compound containing at least one high-melting-point metal selected from Cu and Ni, and Sn defining a low-melting-point metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Yukihiro FUJITA, Shogo KANBE, Kosuke NAKANO, Hideki OTSUKA
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Patent number: 10971301Abstract: A chip electronic component includes spacers that each have a predetermined thickness direction dimension on a mounting surface in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface. The spacers each contain, as a main component, an intermetallic compound containing at least one high-melting-point metal selected from Cu and Ni, and Sn defining a low-melting-point metal.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro Fujita, Shogo Kanbe, Kosuke Nakano, Hideki Otsuka
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Patent number: 10929695Abstract: An obstacle detection apparatus includes a distance measuring sensor, an imaging section, and a control section. Based on a reception result of reception waves obtained by the distance measuring sensor, the control section acquires an estimated reflection position in an illuminated region already irradiated with search waves. Based on the estimated reflection position, the control section recognizes an outer shape of an obstacle. Based on an imaging result obtained by the imaging section, the control section performs image recognition of the obstacle. Based on a recognition result of the outer shape of the obstacle and a result of the image recognition, the control section acquires a relative position, with respect to a vehicle, of a portion of the obstacle in an image captured by the imaging section included in a non-irradiated region ahead of the illuminated region in a vehicle traveling direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hideki Otsuka, Hirohiko Yanagawa
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Patent number: 10885356Abstract: A parking assisting apparatus includes an imaging unit acquiring image information corresponding to an image of surroundings of a vehicle, an image processing section recognizing a feature shape in the image by processing the image information, an obstacle detecting section acquiring positional-relationship information corresponding to a positional relationship between the vehicle and an obstacle present around a parking space, and a manner-of-parking selecting section selecting a manner of parking the vehicle in the parking space from manner candidates including perpendicular parking and parallel parking based on the feature shape and the positional-relationship information.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Hideki Otsuka
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Publication number: 20200019797Abstract: An obstacle detection apparatus includes a distance measuring sensor, an imaging section, and a control section. Based on a reception result of reception waves obtained by the distance measuring sensor, the control section acquires an estimated reflection position in an illuminated region already irradiated with search waves. Based on the estimated reflection position, the control section recognizes an outer shape of an obstacle. Based on an imaging result obtained by the imaging section, the control section performs image recognition of the obstacle. Based on a recognition result of the outer shape of the obstacle and a result of the image recognition, the control section acquires a relative position, with respect to a vehicle, of a portion of the obstacle in an image captured by the imaging section included in a non-irradiated region ahead of the illuminated region in a vehicle traveling direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Hideki OTSUKA, Hirohiko YANAGAWA
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Publication number: 20200011969Abstract: A sensor unit including an object detection sensor and an inclination sensor is mounted to a vehicle, and axial misalignment of the object detection sensor is determined as follows. A first inclination angle acquiring step of disposing the sensor unit, so that a first predetermined direction is aligned with a second predetermined direction before the sensor unit is mounted to the vehicle, and acquiring a first inclination angle detected by the inclination sensor from the inclination sensor, is performed. Then, a second inclination angle acquiring step of mounting the sensor unit on the vehicle and acquiring a second inclination angle detected by the inclination sensor from the inclination sensor, is performed. Finally, an axial misalignment determining step of determining whether axial misalignment has occurred at the object detection sensor, based on the first inclination angle and the second inclination angle, is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Satoru NORO, Hiroyuki KANI, Hideki OTSUKA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20190355522Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a laminate including external electrodes connected to a pair of metal terminals through a bonding material. Each of the pair of metal terminals includes a terminal body, an extension portion, and a mounting portion. The terminal body includes side-surface ribs, opposed to the side surfaces of the electronic component body. The bonding material is provided between the side-surface ribs and the external electrode opposed to the side-surface rib and is not provided between the terminal body and the end surface center portion of the external electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Shogo KANBE, Masahiro ANDATSU, Kosuke NAKANO, Hideki OTSUKA