Patents by Inventor Jun Endo
Jun Endo 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: 11600764Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a film having a first electrode on a first main surface thereof, the first electrode defining a first connection region on the first main surface where the first electrode is not present, and the film is constructed to be deformed in a plane direction when a voltage is applied thereto; a frame-shaped member; a vibration portion surrounded by the frame-shaped member; a first connection member that connects the first main surface of the film to the frame-shaped member at the first connection region; a second connection member that connects the film to the vibration portion; and an extended electrode that is connected to the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Tominaga, Junichi Hashimoto, Jun Endo, Shozo Otera
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Patent number: 11592303Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire facility information containing an advertisement or publicity on a facility located along a travel route that a vehicle is scheduled to travel or a facility located within a predetermined range from the travel route, and, while the vehicle is traveling along the travel route, process an image of a first facility associated with the facility information or an image of a second facility present around the first facility based on the facility information and display the image of the first facility or the image of the second facility on a display provided in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20230049072Abstract: A substrate that includes a film-shaped member that has a first main surface and a second main surface; a first electrode that has a third main surface and a fourth main surface, the third main surface facing the second main surface of the film-shaped member, the first electrode having a first patterning region with a first part where the film-shaped member is exposed from the first electrode and a second part where the film-shaped member is not exposed from the first electrode; and an adhesive tape facing the fourth main surface of the first electrode and the second main surface of the film-shaped member such that the adhesive tape is disposed across the first part and the second part in the first patterning region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Takashi INOUE, Shozo OTERA, Yutaka ISHIURA, Jun ENDO, Yoshihiko NISHIZAWA
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Patent number: 11571713Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a film constructed to deform in a plane direction as voltage is applied thereto, a frame-shaped member, a vibration portion surrounded by the frame-shaped member in a plan view of the vibration structure, a support portion connecting the vibration portion and the frame-shaped member and supporting the vibration portion within the frame-shaped member, a first connection member that connects the film and the frame-shaped member, and a second connection member that connects the film to the vibration portion such that the vibration portion vibrates in the plane direction when the film is deformed in the plane direction. The support portion is disposed at a position closer to a center of gravity of the vibration portion than an end portion of the vibration portion when viewed in the plan view.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Shozo Otera, Jun Endo, Toru Tominaga
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Patent number: 11566953Abstract: A deformation detection sensor that includes a conductive member, a plurality of thermoplastic resin layers, and a piezoelectric film. At least one of the thermoplastic resin layers has a main surface, and the conductive member is formed on the main surface thereof. The plurality of thermoplastic resin layers are laminated and integrally formed by hot pressing into a laminated body. A transmission line is formed form a first portion of the conductive member and the thermoplastic resin in the laminated body. The piezoelectric film is attached to the laminated body to form a piezoelectric element made of a second portion of the conductive member, the thermoplastic resin in the laminated body, and the piezoelectric film.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kihara, Jun Endo, Masamichi Ando
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Patent number: 11556177Abstract: A vibration device that includes a vibration unit that has a vibrator which vibrates in a plane direction; and a sensor arranged on at least a portion of the vibration unit around the vibrator in a plan view of the vibration unit, and the sensor is constructed to detect a pressing operation in a direction normal to a pressing surface of the vibration device.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Tominaga, Takashi Kihara, Hidekazu Kano, Jun Endo
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Patent number: 11553138Abstract: To enable HDR video signals of a plurality of signal interfaces to be satisfactorily handled. [Solution] A processing unit processes a linear high dynamic range video signal and obtains a high dynamic range video signal that has undergone a grayscale compression process. The processing unit is able to perform grayscale compression processes of a plurality of signal interfaces. For example, when a grayscale compression process of another signal interface other than a reference signal interface is performed, the processing unit further performs a process of adding characteristics of system gamma of the reference signal interface and a process of cancelling out characteristics of system gamma of the other signal interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kamiya, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Jun Onuki, Tomoyuki Endo, Masaki Hirose
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Publication number: 20220390679Abstract: A device includes a first lens), a second lens, and an adjustment platform. The first lens is arranged between a first end surface and a second end surface, and enlarges the mode field diameter of light that is guided through a first optical waveguide and is emitted from the first end surface. The second lens is arranged between the first lens and a second end surface, and collects light that has passed through the first lens. The first lens is mounted on the adjustment platform. The distance between the optical axis of the first optical waveguide and the principal point of the first lens is adjusted on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the first optical waveguide using the adjustment platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Jun Endo, Norio Sato
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Publication number: 20220389554Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure contains, by area %, less than 3.0% of residual austenite, 15.0% or more and less than 60.0% of ferrite, and less than 5.0% of pearlite, has a ratio L60/L7 of a length L60 of a grain boundary having a crystal misorientation of 60° to a length L7 of a grain boundary having a crystal misorientation of 7° about a<110> direction of less than 0.60, has a standard deviation of a Mn concentration of 0.60 mass % or less, and has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi SHUTO, Kazumasa TSUTSUI, Koutarou HAYASHI, Akifumi SAKAKIBARA, Jun ANDO, Shota ENDO
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Patent number: 11501640Abstract: Disclosed is a processing device that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time. The processing device includes a controller configured to execute searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation, and deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20220343742Abstract: A vibration device that includes: a fixing part having a flat plate shape; a vibration part having a flat plate shape, the vibration part being disposed around the fixing part as viewed in a normal direction of the fixing part; a coupling part that couples the vibration part and the fixing part and is constructed to elastically deform, the vibration part constructed to be displaced in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the normal direction of the fixing part with respect to the fixing part; and a vibration film fixed to the vibration part and the fixing part, the vibration film constructed to vibrate the vibration part in the orthogonal direction with respect to the fixing part when an electric signal is applied to the vibration film.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Jun ENDO, Shozo OTERA
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Publication number: 20220305737Abstract: A modeling method for a workpiece and the workpiece are provided. When the workpiece, at least a part of the workpiece has a hollow region and two or more openings linking an inside and the outside of the hollow region, is additively manufactured, a temporary closure to block at least one of the two or more openings of the hollow region is manufactured at a same time as laminating of a wall section of the hollow region. A peripheral edge of the temporary closure joined to the wall section, and the temporary closure has a flow hole allowing a fluid to flow in or out of the hollow region, then the temporary closure is removed after the fluid has flowed in or out.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicants: SOLIZE Corporation, Honda Motor Co., LtdInventors: Jun MITAKE, Tsuneo ENDO, Yuta KUROSAWA
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Patent number: 11454664Abstract: A testing system includes: an inspection module including a plurality of levels of inspection chambers in each of which a tester part having a tester configured to perform an electrical inspection of an inspection object and a probe card is accommodated; an aligner module configured to align the inspection object with the tester part; an alignment area in which the aligner module is accommodated; and a loader part configured to load the inspection object into the alignment area and unload the inspection object out of the aligner module, wherein the inspection module is located adjacent to the alignment area.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Kentaro Konishi, Jun Fujihara, Hiroki Shikagawa, Hiroshi Yamada, Yukinori Murata, Katsuaki Sugiyama, Shin Uchida, Tetsuya Kagami, Hiroaki Hayashi, Rika Ozawa, Takanori Hyakudomi, Xingjun Jiang, Kenichi Narikawa, Tomoya Endo
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Patent number: 11455038Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a frame member having an opening therein; a vibration part within the opening in the frame member; a support part that connects the vibration part and the frame member and supports the vibration part within the opening in the frame member; a film that deforms in a planar direction in response to voltage application; and a connection member that connects the film to the vibration part and the frame member such that the vibration part vibrates in the planar direction when the film deforms in the planar direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Jun Endo, Kentaro Usui
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Patent number: 11448839Abstract: A first adhesive layer is provided to be in contact with an SSC. A second adhesive layer is provided to be in contact with an optical fiber. A lens structure is on an interface between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Endo, Kota Shikama, Atsushi Aratake
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Publication number: 20220258198Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotational holding member that rotates a substrate around a predetermined rotational axis while holding the substrate, a liquid supply member that supplies a liquid to the substrate held by the rotational holding member, and a resin-made tubular guard that surrounds the substrate held by the rotational holding member. The tubular guard has an inner peripheral surface and an uneven portion disposed at the inner peripheral surface. The uneven portion has a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of protruding portions placed between the recessed portions adjacent to each other. The recessed portion has a width smaller than a diameter of a liquid droplet scattering from the substrate held by the rotational holding member and a depth in which the liquid droplet does not come into contact with a bottom portion of the recessed portion in a state in which the liquid droplet is in contact with the protruding portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Jun SAWASHIMA, Toru ENDO, Rikuta AOKI
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Patent number: 11418056Abstract: A monitoring control system includes: at least one transmission monitoring control subsystem; and at least one distribution monitoring control subsystem. The transmission monitoring control subsystem and the distribution monitoring control subsystem respectively include an operation procedure creation unit that creates an operation procedure that defines a procedure of an operation for a facility installed in an electric power system, and an operation unit that, in a case an on-site operation that cannot be remotely performed on the facility is included in the operation procedure, transmits, to an on-site terminal associated with the on-site operation, a start confirmation instruction to confirm whether or not the on-site operation can be started and the operation procedure for the on-site operation. The monitoring control system performs monitoring control of the power transmission system and the power distribution system based on the operation procedure.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, IncorporatedInventors: Hiroaki Fujiura, Masami Onishi, Hirofumi Fujii, Hiroaki Sato, Koichi Takeuchi, Junya Yamamoto, Takashi Eguchi, Tomohiro Kubo, Masanori Endo, Kenji Kitami, Takaaki Hosaka, Jun Inoue
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Publication number: 20220250519Abstract: An armrest includes a frame, a mounting portion included in the frame and having a mounting surface with which the mounting portion is mounted on a bracket of a seat, an armrest-side wire harness arranged in the frame, and an armrest-side connector connected to the armrest-side wire harness and being open in a direction from the mounting surface toward the bracket.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Kaho HAYASHI, Hideki OSHIMA, Takemasa OKUMURA, Takahiko ENDO, Jun JIN, Keiji MAKINO
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Patent number: 11407374Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to execute identifying a first training device that is of one or more training devices equipped in a movable object for providing a training opportunity to a passenger and that is used by the passenger, and at least one process of controlling a traveling state of the movable object depending on a content of a training using the first training device and restricting use states of the one or more training devices depending on the traveling state of the movable object.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20220247349Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, and a first shut-off device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell modules connected in series. The inverter converts DC power output from the plurality of solar cell modules to AC power. The first shut-off device is connected to electrical paths connecting the plurality of solar cell modules to each other. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups each including the plurality of the solar cell modules. The plurality of solar cell module groups include at least a first group and a second group connected to the first group. The first shut-off device shuts off a first electrical path connecting the first group and the second group and a second electrical path connecting the plurality of solar cell modules belonging to the first group to each other in response to a control signal from the inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Takahiro TAKEYAMA, Ryo OGURA, Jeongho BAIK, Jun NAKAICHI, Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Tomoko ENDO, Erica MARTIN