Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Baba

Hirotaka Baba 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: 20190348194
    Abstract: An aluminum-based braided wire (1) with good abrasion resistance is provided. The braided wire (1) has a plurality of braided strands (2). The braided wire (1) has a tubular shape. The strands (2) each include a strand main body (20) constituted by an aluminum wire or an aluminum alloy wire, and a fretting-corrosion suppression coating (21) covering an outer circumferential surface of the strand main body (20). The fretting-corrosion suppression coating (21) may be constituted by a chemical conversion coating or an alumite coating. If the fretting-corrosion suppression coating (21) is an alumite coating, the braided wire (1) further includes conductive layers (22) respectively covering outer surfaces of the fretting-corrosion suppression coatings (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kensuke Yamada, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Kinji Taguchi, Toru Shimizu, Masaharu Suetani, Hirotaka Baba, Takeshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10361517
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding component that includes a pipe body that is conductive; and a braid that is tubular and that is obtained by braiding conductive bar wires, the braid and the pipe body being coupled to each other by a coupler in a state in which an end of the braid is externally fitted onto an end of the pipe body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimizu, Hirotaka Baba
  • Publication number: 20190181592
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding component that includes a pipe body that is conductive; and a braid that is tubular and that is obtained by braiding conductive bar wires, the braid and the pipe body being coupled to each other by a coupler in a state in which an end of the braid is externally fitted onto an end of the pipe body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIMIZU, Hirotaka BABA
  • Patent number: 10124748
    Abstract: A vehicular high-voltage wire that can suppress short-circuiting between a positive wire and a negative wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. A wire harness includes a positive high-voltage wire and a negative high-voltage wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. The positive high-voltage wire includes a core wire that is made of a conductor and is for electrical connection to the high-voltage battery, and a protection member that is constituted by woven reinforced fibers that have an insulation property, and is shaped as a tube that surrounds the outer circumference of the core wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimizu, Yasushi Atsumi, Masahiro Hagi, Satoshi Sasaki, Satoshi Murao, Masaharu Suetani, Hirotaka Baba
  • Publication number: 20180056897
    Abstract: A vehicular high-voltage wire that can suppress short-circuiting between a positive wire and a negative wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. A wire harness includes a positive high-voltage wire and a negative high-voltage wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. The positive high-voltage wire includes a core wire that is made of a conductor and is for electrical connection to the high-voltage battery, and a protection member that is constituted by woven reinforced fibers that have an insulation property, and is shaped as a tube that surrounds the outer circumference of the core wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIMIZU, Yasushi ATSUMI, Masahiro HAGI, Satoshi SASAKI, Satoshi MURAO, Masaharu SUETANI, Hirotaka BABA
  • Publication number: 20150141822
    Abstract: A method for generating a region of interest (ROI) wherein in setting ROIs in biological tissues to be compared, burden on a subject can be reduced and the reproducibility of elasticity measurement improved, including: setting candidate points in an arbitrary designated region in a notable tissue in a contrast image of an object designated by an input device; determining partial differential values of pixel values in a two-dimensional direction in the contrast image and thus detecting a tissue boundary; acquiring a shortest distance between the detected tissue boundary and each point, and setting a circle or polygonal region inscribed in the circle having the maximum shortest distance as a radius around the candidate point having the maximum shortest distance as a region of interest; and imaging the region of interest and superimposing it on the contrast image and displaying it on an image display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyauchi, Hirotaka Baba, Takashi Iimura, Naoyuki Murayama, Koji Waki
  • Publication number: 20150050833
    Abstract: A cable unit includes a first connector, a second connector, and a cable. The first connector is connected with a terminal block of a transaxle case. The second connector is connected with a terminal block of a power control unit case. The cable connects the first connector with the second connector. The cable is routed into a curved shape to be curved three-dimensionally. And the cable is deformed when the transaxle case and the power control unit case move relative to each other as a vehicle is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Haruki Kusamaki, Takuya Tate, Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Hirotaka Baba, Tetsuya Iida, Junpei Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140018682
    Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is equipped with: a gradient calculating section that calculates gradients of the volume data voxel values; a feature calculating section that calculates the feature values of the voxels on the basis of the gradients and the direction of the ultrasonic beam and calculates a feature space on the basis of the feature values; an object-voxel determining section that determines the voxels that correspond to the object on the basis of the feature space; a voxel removing section that removes voxels that are closer to the probe than the object; and an ultrasonic image generating unit that generates ultrasonic images that correspond to the object from the volume data from which the voxels closer to the probe have been removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirotaka Baba
  • Patent number: 8258402
    Abstract: The lead-out side end of a drain wire led out from a shield wire and either a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a ground terminal is connected, or a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a connector receiving terminal is connected, are collectively connected together by crimping by using a U-shape cross-sectioned intermediate crimp terminal formed by a pair of opposed barrels, or connected by twisting them together, or connected through a joint bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagi, Yoshiaki Yamano, Naoya Nishimura, Katsutoshi Saijo, Hirotaka Baba, Masaharu Ichikawa, Akira Yamada
  • Patent number: 8167802
    Abstract: A one frame image of a moving image formed by producing tomographic images of an object to be examined is displayed (S2), a mark is superposed on a designated portion of a tissue the movement of which is tracked in the displayed one frame image (S3), a cutout image of a size including the designated portion is set in the one frame image (S4), local images are searched in another frame images of the moving image and a local image of the identical size which is most coincided with the cutout image is extracted (S5,6), and a coordinate of the designated portion after movement is calculated based on a coordinate difference between the most coincided local image and the cutout image (S7), thereby the movement of tissue is quantitatively measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Baba, Osamu Mori
  • Patent number: 8146248
    Abstract: A Drain wire led out from the interior to the exterior of a shielded wire is covered with a heat shrinkable tube made of an insulating resin or with a rubber tube including silicon or EPDM (ethylene-propylene rubber). A water-stop agent is penetrated between the element wires of the drain wire in the heat shrinkable tube or the rubber tube. In addition, A boundary portion between a terminal connected to an end of the drain wire and the heat shrinkable tube is covered with a rubber stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Nishimura, Toshio Kometani, Masahiro Hagi, Hirotaka Baba, Yoshiaki Yamano
  • Patent number: 8079956
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an improvement in spatial resolution, and an amount of displacement between the images is computed. When the amount of displacement is large, the signals after envelop detection are synthesized. When the amount of displacement is small, RF signals are synthesized. Alternatively, the mixing frequency may be variable according to the amount of displacement, and the balance between an improvement in spatial resolution and that in contract resolution is achieved according to a degree of the positional displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Azuma, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Hirotaka Baba
  • Publication number: 20110272193
    Abstract: A Drain wire led out from the interior to the exterior of a shielded wire is covered with a heat shrinkable tube made of an insulating resin or with a rubber tube including silicon or EPDM (ethylene-propylene rubber). A water-stop agent is penetrated between the element wires of the drain wire in the heat shrinkable tube or the rubber tube. In addition, A boundary portion between a terminal connected to an end of the drain wire and the heat shrinkable tube is covered with a rubber stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Nishimura, Toshio Kometani, Masahiro Hagi, Hirotaka Baba, Yoshiaki Yamano
  • Publication number: 20110168423
    Abstract: The lead-out side end of a drain wire led out from a shield wire and either a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a ground terminal is connected, or a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a connector receiving terminal is connected, are collectively connected together by crimping by using a U-shape cross-sectioned intermediate crimp terminal formed by a pair of opposed barrels, or connected by twisting them together, or connected through a joint bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagi, Yoshiaki Yamano, Naoya Nishimura, Katsutoshi Saijo, Hirotaka Baba, Masaharu Ichikawa, Akira Yamada
  • Patent number: 7927279
    Abstract: An ultrasonograph comprising a probe for measurement by bringing the probe into contact with a subject in a first state, first image creating means for creating a first image of the subject from the information sent from the probe, image display means for displaying the first image created by the first image creating means, means for setting at least one piece of reference information on the first image displayed by the image displaying means, second image creating means for creating a second image of the subject from the measurement information collected by bringing the probe into contact with the subject in a second state different from the first state, means for collecting information on the distortion of a desired region of interest in the second image on the basis of the variation, in the second image, of the reference information set on the first image by the setting means, and display control means for controlling the display of the distortion information collected by the distortion collecting means on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Kubota, Hirotaka Baba
  • Patent number: 7828731
    Abstract: An ultrasonographic apparatus in which the S/N ratio of a compound image is improved operates by combining a plurality of reception beam signals from probes arranged at different positions relative to a sample, converting the combined ultrasonic beam into a luminance signal, and displaying the luminance signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Baba, Yutaka Sato, Ryuichi Shinomura, Jun Kubota
  • Publication number: 20090314511
    Abstract: The lead-out side end of a drain wire (11) led out from a shield wire (10) and either a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire (50), to the other end of which a ground terminal (51) is connected, or a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire (53), to the other end of which a connector receiving terminal (56) is connected, are collectively connected together by crimping by using a U-shape cross-sectioned intermediate crimp terminal (40) formed by a pair of opposed barrels (40b), or connected by twisting them together, or connected through a joint bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagi, Yoshiaki Yamano, Naoya Nishimura, Katsutoshi Saijo, Hirotaka Baba, Masaharu Ichikawa, Akira Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090126993
    Abstract: A Drain wire led out from the interior to the exterior of a shielded wire is covered with a heat shrinkable tube made of an insulating resin or with a rubber tube including silicon or EPDM (ethylene-propylene rubber). A water-stop agent is penetrated between the element wires of the drain wire in the heat shrinkable tube or the rubber tube. In addition, A boundary portion between a terminal connected to an end of the drain wire and the heat shrinkable tube is covered with a rubber stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES , LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS , LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES , LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Nishimura, Toshio Kometani, Masahiro Hagi, Hirotaka Baba, Yoshiaki Yamano
  • Publication number: 20090118617
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an improvement in spatial resolution, and an amount of displacement between the images is computed. When the amount of displacement is large, the signals after envelop detection are synthesized. When the amount of displacement is small, RF signals are synthesized. Alternatively, the mixing frequency may be variable according to the amount of displacement, and the balance between an improvement in spatial resolution and that in contract resolution is achieved according to a degree of the positional displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Azuma, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Hirotaka Baba
  • Patent number: 7473226
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an improvement in spatial resolution, and an amount of displacement between the images is computed. When the amount of displacement is large, the signals after envelop detection are synthesized. When the amount of displacement is small, RF signals are synthesized. Alternatively, the mixing frequency may be variable according to the amount of displacement, and the balance between an improvement in spatial resolution and that in contract resolution is achieved according to a degree of the positional displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Azuma, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Hirotaka Baba