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).

  • Patent number: 11571713
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Shozo Otera, Jun Endo, Toru Tominaga
  • Patent number: 11566953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kihara, Jun Endo, Masamichi Ando
  • Patent number: 11556177
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Tominaga, Takashi Kihara, Hidekazu Kano, Jun Endo
  • Publication number: 20220390679
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Norio Sato
  • Patent number: 11501640
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Publication number: 20220343742
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jun ENDO, Shozo OTERA
  • Patent number: 11455038
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Jun Endo, Kentaro Usui
  • Patent number: 11448839
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Kota Shikama, Atsushi Aratake
  • Patent number: 11407374
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Publication number: 20220229240
    Abstract: An optical fiber connection structure according to the present invention includes a fiber support member configured to support an optical fiber to be optically connected to an optical waveguide device, a stopper configured to restrict movement in an axial direction of the optical fiber supported by the fiber support member, and a lens disposed on an optical axis between an end surface of the optical waveguide device and the optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Kota Shikama, Jun Endo, Atsushi Aratake
  • Patent number: 11379547
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a vehicle configured to capture an image of clothing and accessories of a user when the user gets in the vehicle to generate a clothing and accessories image; and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle and a terminal device of the user. The server is configured to: train a supervised learning model by using at least one of schedule information of the user and weather information as input data and clothing and accessories information as training data; estimate clothing and accessories according to at least one of schedule information of the user and weather information for the next time the user gets in the vehicle by using the trained supervised learning model; and send clothing and accessories recommendation information indicating the estimated clothing and accessories to the terminal device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Jun Endo
  • Patent number: 11377121
    Abstract: A processing device that is provided in a building in which a user stays includes a control unit configured to perform: transmitting a request for a vehicle which the user desires to use to move to the building; detecting that the vehicle reaches a vicinity of the building; inquiring of the user about whether access of the vehicle to the inside of the building is permitted when it is detected that the vehicle reaches the vicinity of the building; and guiding at least a part of the vehicle to the inside of the building when the access is permitted by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Patent number: 11332161
    Abstract: A controller of an autonomous traveling vehicle as an information processing apparatus of the disclosure executes acquiring first information relating to a predetermined item and the first information relating to predetermined processing in a processing apparatus mounted on the autonomous traveling vehicle, acquiring second information relating to shipping of the predetermined item, controlling running of the autonomous traveling vehicle based on the second information, and controlling the operation of the processing apparatus based on the first information when the autonomous traveling vehicle is in a running state based on the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Patent number: 11323045
    Abstract: A vibration device that includes a flat plate that has a first main surface and a second main surface; a vibrator that is configured to vibrate along a first direction parallel to the first main surface; a connecting member that connects the vibrator to the first main surface of the flat plate; a support member having a cavity or a recess in a portion thereof facing the vibrator; and a cushioning material connecting the first main surface of the flat plate to the support member, the cushioning material being disposed so as to not overlap with the vibrator in a plan view of the vibration device. A combined length of the vibrator and the connecting member in a second direction perpendicular to the first main surface of the flat plate is larger than a length of the cushioning material in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Junichi Hashimoto, Shozo Otera, Toru Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20220097098
    Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a member having a vibrator that vibrates along a plane direction; a housing that holds the member; and a cushioning material connecting the housing to the member, in which a thickness of the cushioning material in a direction orthogonal to a plane direction of the housing is greater than a length of a gap between the member and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Shozo Otera, Yutaka Ishiura
  • Patent number: 11275212
    Abstract: An optical waveguide connection structure connects a Si waveguide and an optical fiber to each other with a bonding layer interposed therebetween. The Si waveguide has a core whose cross-sectional area in the direction perpendicular to the direction of propagation of light decreases toward the optical fiber, and a cladding that covers the core. The optical fiber has a fiber core, a fiber cladding that covers the fiber core, and a recess formed in an end face opposed to the Si waveguide. The bonding layer fills a gap between the end face of the Si waveguide and the end face of the optical fiber and the recess, and the bonding layer has a refractive index greater than the refractive index of the fiber core of the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Atsushi Aratake
  • Publication number: 20220075100
    Abstract: An embodiment lens structure body includes a microlens portion of double-sided asymmetric aspherical shape having a refraction surface on an illuminant side and a refraction surface on an emission side so as to be opposed to the refraction surface, and marker portions formed so as to be joined to both ends of the microlens portion in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Kota Shikama, Atsushi Aratake
  • Publication number: 20220065741
    Abstract: An analysis apparatus includes a setting device configured to set information on a structure of an optical connection structure, a solution device configured to solve a partial differential equation having, as an unknown, an electromagnetic field distributed in the optical connection structure based on the information on the structure of the optical connection structure to determine a distribution of the electromagnetic field, a data extraction device configured to extract, from the distribution of the electromagnetic field determined by the solution device, a mode distribution in a plane at a predetermined position of the optical connection structure and a time response of an electromagnetic field at a predetermined position of the optical connection structure, and a characteristics analysis device configured to analyze optical characteristics of the optical connection structure based on the mode distribution and the time response of the electromagnetic field extracted by the data extraction device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Atsushi Aratake
  • Publication number: 20220057580
    Abstract: An optical connection structure 1 includes a waveguide substrate; a Si waveguide formed on one surface of the waveguide substrate and having a first end surface; an optical fiber having a second end surface facing the first end surface; a terrace section extending further toward the optical fiber side from an end portion on the optical fiber side of the waveguide substrate; and a lens disposed on the terrace section, and arranged on an optical axis connecting the first end surface and the second end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Kota Shikama, Atsushi Aratake
  • Publication number: 20220057578
    Abstract: An optical connection structure includes a waveguide substrate; a Si waveguide formed on one surface of the waveguide substrate 100 and having a first end surface; an optical fiber having a second end surface facing the first end surface; a terrace section extending further toward the optical fiber side from an end portion on the optical fiber side of the waveguide substrate; and a support member formed on the terrace section, and including, on a top surface in a view from the terrace section, a recess c configured to support a lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Kota Shikama, Atsushi Aratake