Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Shirakawa

Hiroaki Shirakawa 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: 11454185
    Abstract: An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage generated by a booster circuit until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. When a power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit, a regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit. The boost controller stops the boost control of the booster circuit when at least the electric current is regenerated by the regeneration unit to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit after the interruption control by the power interruption controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shirakawa, Masashi Inaba
  • Patent number: 11441505
    Abstract: An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage generated by a booster circuit until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. When, for stopping a peak current by a drive unit, a power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit as interruption control (i) of an application voltage to a fuel injection valve or (ii) of a constant current by the drive unit, a regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit. The boost controller upward-shifts (i.e., raises) the full-charge threshold of the booster circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shirakawa, Masashi Inaba
  • Patent number: 11421617
    Abstract: An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. A drive unit supplies electric current to a fuel injection valve from a start timing t1 of an injection instruction period. A power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit. A regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve which is caused by interruption control by the power interruption controller to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shirakawa, Masashi Inaba
  • Publication number: 20210189986
    Abstract: An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage generated by a booster circuit until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. When a power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit, a regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit. The boost controller stops the boost control of the booster circuit when at least the electric current is regenerated by the regeneration unit to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit after the interruption control by the power interruption controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: HIROAKI SHIRAKAWA, MASASHI INABA
  • Publication number: 20210189988
    Abstract: An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. A drive unit supplies electric current to a fuel injection valve from a start timing t1 of an injection instruction period. A power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit. A regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve which is caused by interruption control by the power interruption controller to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: HIROAKI SHIRAKAWA, MASASHI INABA
  • Publication number: 20210189987
    Abstract: An injection control device includes a boost controller performing boost control of a boosted voltage generated by a booster circuit until a boosted voltage, which is generated in a boost capacitor, rises to a full-charge threshold when the boosted voltage falls below a charge start threshold. When, for stopping a peak current by a drive unit, a power interruption controller interrupts electric current supplied to the fuel injection valve by the drive unit as interruption control (i) of an application voltage to a fuel injection valve or (ii) of a constant current by the drive unit, a regeneration unit regenerates electric current generated in the fuel injection valve to the boost capacitor of the booster circuit. The boost controller upward-shifts (i.e., raises) the full-charge threshold of the booster circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: HIROAKI SHIRAKAWA, MASASHI INABA
  • Patent number: 10890539
    Abstract: A semiconductor defect inspection apparatus for inspecting a specimen including a semiconductor substrate having a surface on which a predetermined pattern is formed, includes an excitation light irradiator, a polarization converter, a detector, and a defect analysis detector. The excitation light irradiator irradiates the specimen with excitation light along an optical path from the irradiator to the specimen and such that the excitation light is obliquely incident at a predetermined incident angle. The first polarization converter is disposed in the optical path, and converts the excitation light into s-polarized light. The detector detects photoluminescence light generated from the specimen when the excitation light is incident on the specimen. The defect analysis detector detects a dislocation defect by analyzing a photoluminescence image obtained by photoelectrically converting the photoluminescence light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shirakawa, Kiminori Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20200408700
    Abstract: A semiconductor defect inspection apparatus for inspecting a specimen including a semiconductor substrate having a surface on which a predetermined pattern is formed, includes an excitation light irradiator, a polarization converter, a detector, and a defect analysis detector. The excitation light irradiator irradiates the specimen with excitation light along an optical path from the irradiator to the specimen and such that the excitation light is obliquely incident at a predetermined incident angle. The first polarization converter is disposed in the optical path, and converts the excitation light into s-polarized light. The detector detects photoluminescence light generated from the specimen when the excitation light is incident on the specimen. The defect analysis detector detects a dislocation defect by analyzing a photoluminescence image obtained by photoelectrically converting the photoluminescence light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki SHIRAKAWA, Kiminori YOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10022961
    Abstract: A recording apparatus is capable of executing multiple types of different temperature control. A recording head of the recording apparatus has multiple temperature sensors disposed at different positions from each other in the recording head. Each of the multiple types of different temperature control is performed based on representative temperatures acquired using different combinations of the temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroshi Taira
  • Patent number: 9895894
    Abstract: After printing is performed by driving only some printing elements, the other printing elements are driven so that kogation is deposited on the surface of the other printing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Taira, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Satoshi Azuma, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9873247
    Abstract: A driving pulse to be applied is changed when an overlapped level of invert timing of driving pulse is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhei Oikawa, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Hiroshi Taira, Satoshi Azuma, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9855743
    Abstract: Recording elements are driven by changing a driving pulse applied thereto in accordance with information regarding a total number of times the recording elements have been driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Taira, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Yosuke Ishii, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroaki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9738069
    Abstract: A driving pulse to be applied to a plurality of print elements in a print element array is decided based on the deviation of the discharge amount from the print elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhei Oikawa, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Hiroshi Taira, Yosuke Ishii, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroaki Komatsu, Kazuhiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20170225459
    Abstract: A recording apparatus is capable of executing multiple types of different temperature control. A recording head of the recording apparatus has multiple temperature sensors disposed at different positions from each other in the recording head. Each of the multiple types of different temperature control is performed based on representative temperatures acquired using different combinations of the temperature sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroshi Taira
  • Patent number: 9656465
    Abstract: A recording apparatus is capable of executing multiple types of different temperature control. A recording head of the recording apparatus has multiple temperature sensors disposed at different positions from each other in the recording head. Each of the multiple types of different temperature control is performed based on representative temperatures acquired using different combinations of the temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroshi Taira
  • Publication number: 20170087826
    Abstract: Recording elements are driven by changing a driving pulse applied thereto in accordance with information regarding a total number of times the recording elements have been driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi Taira, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Yosuke Ishii, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroaki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9522529
    Abstract: A substrate includes an AND circuit and an LVC. The AND circuit generates a control signal for switching an NMOS transistor. The LVC controls the gate voltage of the NMOS transistor on the basis of the control signal. The substrate applies a constant gate voltage to a PMOS transistor without using the AND circuit and the LVC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamaguchi, Toshio Negishi, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Kazunari Fujii
  • Publication number: 20160347057
    Abstract: A driving pulse to be applied to a plurality of print elements in a print element array is decided based on the deviation of the discharge amount from the print elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Yuhei Oikawa, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Hiroshi Taira, Yosuke Ishii, Satoshi Azuma, Hiroaki Komatsu, Kazuhiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20160339692
    Abstract: After printing is performed by driving only some printing elements, the other printing elements are driven so that kogation is deposited on the surface of the other printing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Taira, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Satoshi Azuma, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20160288494
    Abstract: A substrate includes an AND circuit and an LVC. The AND circuit generates a control signal for switching an NMOS transistor. The LVC controls the gate voltage of the NMOS transistor on the basis of the control signal. The substrate applies a constant gate voltage to a PMOS transistor without using the AND circuit and the LVC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamaguchi, Toshio Negishi, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Kazunari Fujii