Patents by Inventor Kazuhisa To

Kazuhisa To 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: 11749722
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of embodiments includes a silicon carbide layer having a first face and a second face, a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer on the first face. The silicon carbide layer includes a first silicon carbide region of a first conductive type; a second silicon carbide region of a second conductive type disposed between the first silicon carbide region and the first face; a third silicon carbide region of a second conductive type between the first silicon carbide region and the first face; a fourth silicon carbide region; a fifth silicon carbide region; a sixth silicon carbide region of a second conductive type between the first silicon carbide region and the first face and between the second silicon carbide region and the third silicon carbide region; and a crystal defect. The crystal defect is in the sixth silicon carbide region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma Suzuki, Sozo Kanie, Chiharu Ota, Susumu Obata, Kazuhisa Goto
  • Patent number: 11745527
    Abstract: Pressure sensitive transfer correcting tape disclosed herein has improved resistance to bleeding from a line drawn with a ballpoint pen or the like. The pressure sensitive transfer correcting tape may include a release substrate including paper or a plastic film and a pressure sensitive transfer layer including at least a correcting and covering layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer laminated sequentially on one side of the release substrate. The correcting and covering layer contains porous silica and acid-modified rosin. In some examples, the oil absorption of the porous silica is preferably in a range of from 100 to 320 ml/100 g, and the acid value of the acid-modified rosin is preferably 180 mg KOH/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keitaro Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Aoki, Akihiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11749854
    Abstract: In a battery cooling structure for a vehicle, a battery including a plurality of cell groups arrayed in a vehicle body front-and-rear direction. Each cell group includes a plurality of cuboid cells that are arrayed in a thickness direction of the cells. Each cell includes a positive terminal provided at one side wall extending in a short side direction of the cell and a negative terminal provided at another side wall extending in the short side direction. The positive terminals of one of the cell groups and the negative terminals of another of the cell groups, which cell groups are adjacent in the vehicle body front-and-rear direction, oppose one another in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Ichinose, Masayuki Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Kazuhisa Ori, Hidetoshi Katoh
  • Patent number: 11751368
    Abstract: The electrically conductive resin composition may contain matrix resin, coke powder, and carbon fiber. The volume mean particle diameter of the coke powder may be not less than 1 ?m and not more than 500 ?m. The content percentage of the coke powder in the electrically conductive resin composition may be not less than 1 wt % and not more than 60 wt %. The aspect ratio of the carbon fiber may be not less than 3 and not more than 1700. The content percentage of the carbon fiber in the electrically conductive resin composition may be not less than 0.5 wt % and not more than 10 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD., MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Miyanaga, Kazuhisa To, Nobuyoshi Kajioka, Junichi Ogawa, Kenji Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 11745971
    Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus comprising a first tray, a second tray, a conveyance unit, a tray detection unit, a stacking amount detection unit, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit to not convey the sheet to the second tray, in a case where the stacking amount detection unit detects that the amount of sheets reaches the predetermined amount, wherein the control unit is configured to permit the conveyance unit to convey the sheet to the second tray, in a case where the tray detection unit detects that the first tray is detached from the apparatus main body in a state where the stacking amount detection unit detects that the amount of sheets reaches the predetermined amount and conveyance of the sheet to the second tray by the conveyance unit is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
  • Publication number: 20230273295
    Abstract: This in-vehicle radar device includes: a conductive heat sink; a first cover covering a first-direction side of the heat sink; a second cover covering a second-direction side of the heat sink and connected to the first cover; a first circuit board including a first board, a first electronic component, a first ground pattern, and an antenna portion, stored between the heat sink and the first cover, and contacting with the heat sink; a conductive inner cover contacting with the first cover and the first circuit board; and an elastic member pressing the heat sink, the first circuit board, and the inner cover to the first cover. The first ground pattern contacts with and is electrically connected to one or both of the heat sink and the inner cover. A distance between the antenna portion and the first cover is equal to a thickness of the inner cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi OHARA, Kazuhisa TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11742116
    Abstract: The resistor 5 is a print-formed body including a meandering shaped first region 8 connected to the first front electrode 3 and a second region 9 connected to the first region 8 via a linking portion 10 and connected to the second front electrode 4. The first region 8 is provided with an I-cut shaped first trimming groove 11 and the second region 9 is provided with an L-cut shaped second trimming groove 12, and the side of the second region 9 positioned in the direction toward which a turn portion 12b of the second trimming groove 12 extends is an oblique side 9a that inclines to approach the second front electrode 4 as it approaches the connecting portion 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KOA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Ushiyama, Yuta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230264168
    Abstract: An oxygen scavenger composition contains a mixed granule of a composition containing a water retention agent, a swelling agent, a metal halide, water, an iron and an alkaline substance, wherein the alkaline substance contains at least one selected from the group consisting of hydroxides of alkali metals, hydroxides of alkaline earth metals and salts composed of a weak acid and a strong base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki SATO, Natsuko KAJI, Kazuhisa SASAKI, Kensuke NORO, Kouta KAGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11736728
    Abstract: An encoding device 1 includes: a transformer 13 configured to calculate an orthogonal transform coefficient by performing an orthogonal transformation process on a residual image indicating a difference between the input image and a predicted image of the input image; a quantizer 14 configured to generate quantization coefficient by quantizing the orthogonal transform coefficient based on a quantization parameter; an entropy encoder 24 configured to generate encoded data by encoding the quantization coefficient; an image decoder 10 configured to restore an orthogonal transform coefficient from the quantization coefficient based on the quantization parameter and generate a pre-filtering image by adding the predicted image to a residual image restored by performing inverse orthogonal transformation on the orthogonal transform coefficient; and a deblocking filter 18 configured to perform a filtering process on the pre-filtering image and control a filtering strength depending on a result of comparison between a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Atsuro Ichigaya, Shunsuke Iwamura, Shimpei Nemoto, Kazuhisa Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11732807
    Abstract: An eccentric butterfly valve that maintains high sealability when closed even when a high-pressure fluid is oriented in either direction of a forward flow or backflow. The valve includes a disk (23) axially supported at an eccentric position via a stem (22) inside a body (21). The disk is provided to a seat ring (24) fixed with a seat retainer (25) so as to be hermetically sealable. A flexible part is formed on an inner diameter side of the seat ring, and a spring member is mounted between the flexible part and the seat retainer. In the spring member, a load increases substantially in proportion to the magnitude of tilt of the flexible part when the disk is displaced to a seat retainer side. When the flexible part is elastically deformed, the spring member is elastically deformed in a state where contact with the seat retainer is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Miyashita, Kazuhisa Kubota, Yuri Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230258780
    Abstract: A LiDAR device is an optical device, including a light-emitting unit, a scanning unit, a light-receiving unit, and an optical unit. The light-emitting unit includes a plurality of laser oscillation elements respectively emitting a beam in an arrangement along a light source array direction at intervals from each other. The scanning unit projects the beam to a measurement area by scanning of the beam that is emitted from the light-emitting unit. The light-receiving unit receives a reflected beam from the measurement area. The optical unit is positioned on an optical path of the beam directed from the light-emitting unit to the scanning unit. The optical unit includes a collimator lens having a positive power in a transmission direction of the beam, and a beam shaping lens positioned behind the collimator lens and having a positive power in the transmission direction on a sub-scanning plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: KAZUHISA ONDA, SAKITO MIKI, MITSUHIRO KIYONO
  • Publication number: 20230259055
    Abstract: A belt unit includes a belt that is endless, a plurality of stretching rollers, a pair of side frames and one or more shafts. The side frames are each provided with bearing holes that rotatably support opposite end parts of the stretching rollers, and positioning holes into which opposite end parts of the shafts are inserted. The shafts each have formed therein a first engagement groove that engages with a first holding jig. The stretching rollers each have formed therein a second engagement groove that engages with a second holding jig. When the first engagement groove is in engagement with the first holding jig, the shafts are arranged opposite the positioning holes corresponding thereto, and have a phase thereof restricted in a circumferential direction thereof. When the second engagement groove is in engagement with the second holding jig, the stretching rollers are arranged opposite the bearing holes corresponding thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi KAINUMA, Kazuhisa HIRAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230262277
    Abstract: A viewing completion rate estimation apparatus includes a processor configured to calculate an estimated value of a viewing completion rate per unit time based on an estimated value of video quality and a characteristic that the viewing completion rate decreases with a decrease in the video quality; and estimate a viewing completion rate for a video content length based on the estimated value of the viewing completion rate per unit time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhisa YAMAGISHI, Pierre LEBRETON
  • Patent number: 11728132
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes a beam generation device that generates an ion beam with which a workpiece is irradiated, a control device that sets a plurality of operation parameters for controlling an operation of the beam generation device, a measurement device that measures at least one of beam characteristics of the ion beam, a storage device that accumulates data sets in each of which a set of set values of the plurality of operation parameters and a measurement value of the at least one of the beam characteristics of the ion beam are associated with each other, and an analysis device that generates a function for estimating the at least one of the beam characteristics from a set value of at least one of specific parameters included in the plurality of operation parameters, based on a plurality of the data sets accumulated in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES ION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Yamaguchi, Kazuhisa Ishibashi, Tetsuya Kudo
  • Patent number: 11727908
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to record on a medium, a transportation unit configured to transport the medium, a driving member, a plurality of gears configured to transmit a driving force of the driving member, and a sound absorber having an opening and a hollow space in communication with the opening. The sound absorber is located between a side end of the medium being transported by the transportation unit and the plurality of gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Morio Iwata, Kazuhisa Takeda, Mafumi Kobayashi, Katsumi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230249621
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a first display unit disposed in front of and above a driver's seat and including a display screen configured to be deployed from an interior member into the vehicle cabin and be withdrawn from the vehicle cabin into an inside of the interior member, a drive unit configured to drive the display screen, and a control unit configured to control the first display unit and the drive unit. The control unit includes a driving status acquisition unit configured to acquire a driving status of a vehicle, a drive control unit configured to change a deployment amount of the display screen based on the acquired driving status, and a display control unit configured to cause the display screen to display a rear seat image captured by an in-vehicle camera for a rear seat to fit with the deployment amount of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhisa MAEDA, Tatsuya SHIMIZU, Takanobu TABATA, Yasuyuki ANDOU, Takahiro SUZUKI, Fumihiro ONOGI
  • Publication number: 20230249551
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a display unit in a shape of a rectangular film, the display unit being configured to be advanced from and withdrawn into a ceiling of a vehicle cabin; a lower edge reinforcing portion located at a lower edge of the display unit, the lower edge reinforcing portion reinforcing the lower edge of the display unit; and a support mechanism configured to be extended and retracted according to an amount by which the display unit protrudes beyond the ceiling, and configured to support the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhisa MAEDA, Tatsuya SHIMIZU, Takanobu TABATA, Yasuyuki ANDOU, Takahiro SUZUKI, Fumihiro ONOGI
  • Publication number: 20230246002
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip including a first MOSFET of n-type and a first parasitic diode; and a second semiconductor chip including a second MOSFET of n-type and a second parasitic diode. A first source electrode and a first gate wiring are formed in a first front surface of the first semiconductor chip, and a first drain electrode is formed in a first back surface of the first semiconductor chip. A second source electrode and a second gate wiring are formed in a second front surface of the second semiconductor chip, and a second drain electrode is formed in a second back surface of the second semiconductor chip. The first front surface and the second front surface face each other such that the first source electrode and the second source electrode are in contact with each other via a conductive paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yasutaka NAKASHIBA, Hiroshi YANAGIGAWA, Kazuhisa MORI, Toshiyuki HATA
  • Publication number: 20230245943
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element, a first heat dissipation portion, and a spacer. A connection area of the spacer where the spacer contacts the first heat dissipation portion is larger than a connection area of the spacer where the spacer contacts the semiconductor element. Heat of the semiconductor element is dissipated from the first heat dissipation portion via the spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11713497
    Abstract: A steel member according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure includes, by a volume %, 60.0% to 85.0% of martensite, 10.0% to 30.0% of bainite, 5.0% to 15.0% of residual austenite, and 0% to 4.0% of a remainder in microstructure. A length of a maximum minor axis of the residual austenite is 30 nm or longer. A number density of a carbide which exist in the steel member and has a circle equivalent diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and an aspect ratio of 2.5 or less is 4.0×103 pieces/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tabata, Yoshihiro Suwa, Kazuo Hikida, Kazuhisa Kusumi